Category Archives: electoral strategy

What is Austerity? That is the 50 Trillion Dollar Question.

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Richard Moser

The modern system of austerity took shape in the mid-1970s and we are still in its grip. Austerity is meant to trap us in a destructive double-bind; the race to the bottom for millions of people is also the race to … Continue reading →

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What We Have Here is a Failure to Negotiate

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Richard Moser

No relief worth a damn? No healthcare? What we have here is a failure to negotiate. And that is a direct outcome of the failure to challenge power. I was only chief negotiator once but I sat at enough bargaining … Continue reading →

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The Last Third Party to Win Waged Political Struggle with a “Revolutionary Reform.”

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Richard Moser

The last third party to win — the Republican Party — used a revolutionary reform they called the “non-extention of slavery” to fundamentally alter the existing two-party system. The history of the anti-slavery movement and the early Republican Party … Continue reading →

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The Last Third Party to Win: The Republicans, The Civil War, The “Slave Power,” and The Current Crisis

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Richard Moser

“Third parties can never win” or so you have heard a thousand times. Except — and it’s one huge exception — under historical circumstances much like the conditions we currently face. We are living in a rare historical moment when … Continue reading →

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What is the General Strike?

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Richard Moser

Also at CounterPunch. The General Strike in the US is a multi-faceted, poly-centered resistance movement responding to the general crisis of capitalism and corporate power triggered by the Covid-19 crisis. The pandemic is revealing to millions what was always well … Continue reading →

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From Strike Wave to General Strike

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Richard Moser

Above photo: Yasmine James (center with microphone), the McDonald’s worker attacked while working at a St. Petersburg restaurant, spoke to a crowd at a worker rally Tuesday. Spectrum News image. Thanks to Popular Resistance. Also in Counterpunch and Popular Resistance. The … Continue reading →

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Russia-gate: The Dead But Undead

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Richard Moser

Attention all Russia-gaters! Under the cover of pandemic, the US finally dropped charges against those dastardly Russian meme-bombers! Just in case you think this is yet another conspiracy led by Trump’s DOJ to hide something, the case against the troll farm … Continue reading →

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One Winning Way to Build the Peace Movement And One Losing Way

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Richard Moser

Q. What cloaks the empire and turns a mighty movement into a mirage? A. Narrow partisan politics. When anti-war activism plays second-fiddle to “follow the leader,” the chosen champion and the opposing villain loom so large that they become the … Continue reading →

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Bossing Grown Folks Around: The Open Letter to the Greens

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Richard Moser

Also in Counterpunch Before a single primary vote has been tallied a number of big-shot progressive Democrats are already calling for the Green Party to stand down in an “open letter.” Of all the issues we face, why focus so … Continue reading →

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Howling Hypocrisy?

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Richard Moser

After two years of non-stop saber-rattling and war preparations against possible microscopic meddling by Russia, the mere mention of a verifiable truth that Israel meddles in our affairs on a continuous basis draws faux-righteous rebukes from the elites. With the … Continue reading →

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