President-elect Joe Biden did not run an inspiring campaign for those on the left, consistently opposing policies supported by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party such as Medicare-For-All and the Green New Deal. Since his election victory, it has become increasingly clear that the Biden Administration will be dominated by establishment and conservative blue […]

The US elections assessed

With the election results still too close to call, we interviewed several US-Americans in Berlin and beyond about their initial reactions

1. Inter-capitalist contradictions in the USA   Recently I wrote on ‘Berlin Left’ and in an amplified version elsewhere [1] – that there had been an exodus of major sections of the ruling class from Trump’s camp. In brief the argument presented was that the main sections of the ruling class who have supported Trump […]