International Perspectives on the US Election
GEORGE W Bush’s re-election to the White House spells trouble not only for working people in the US but for the rest of the world. His triumph represents victory not only for the unwholesome alliance of queer-bashers and misogynists that makes up the Christian right but also for the military-industrial complex, including the oil lobby.
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Bye Bye American Dream (print)
Never before has the divide between our nation’s richest and poorest been so large. Never before has corporate corruption and welfare been so flagrant. Therefore, we watch with rapt attention and desperation the unfolding of the American Dream on so-called reality TV, distracted from the fact that the Dream’s rewards are more fiction than fact nowadays.
First Impressions of the Election: What We Should do
Although there is both anger and despair at the election results among all anti-Bush forces, it is important that we think and act as Marxists. The first question we should ask is: what would Marxists do in analyzing this election. Elections are mobilizations in the class struggle and the Republican leadership understands that, dealing with this election both as a military campaign and as psychological warfare.
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No Manadate for Bush Agenda
Bruised but unbowed by labor’s failure to oust George W. Bush in the Nov. 2 election, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told a news conference here that the movement will 'fight like hell' to stop Bush’s ultra-right agenda in his second term. 'Yesterday’s election was breathtakingly close. There is clearly no conservative mandate for our nation,' Sweeney said.
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Black Consensus Remains Intact
The worst possible outcome of Tuesday’s election would have been that George Bush won with the help of a divided Black electorate. Instead, African Americans reaffirmed the vitality of the Black Political Consensus – our eyes firmly fixed on the prize: peace, jobs and justice.
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Bush's Ownership Society: No Taxes for Owners, only workers
While the economy did receive some stimulus from tax cuts it was very little for the trillions of dollars of present and future revenue sacrificed. Much more could have been achieved with a fraction of this money going to beleaguered state governments and people with less income than the rich. The real purpose of Bush's tax policy was to rewrite the tax code to create 'an ownership society': one in which owners do not pay taxes, but workers do.
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Bush the Commander of Fear
Well, Bush has done it all. In an ad that appeared last night and which bears the slimy fingerprints of Karl Rove, Bush was declared 'the most powerful man in the world' and 'the only one who can keep us safe.' This self-serving megalomania aside, it is clear that there are a few things this benevolent omnipotent god-like creature could not do or did not even try to do.
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Bush's Election Hypocrisy
THE statement was hard-hitting and its threat was unmistakable. It gave notice that gerrymandering in the presidential election would not be tolerated. 'If the election fails to meet international standards, a variety of measures to hold officials responsible for electoral misconduct accountable will be considered,' it said.
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Bush the Moral Tourist
One of history's more disquieting chapters will be written tomorrow, November 2, election day in the United States, if the man who avoided combat during the Vietnam war, George Bush, defeats the man who served with courage in Vietnam, Senator John Kerry.
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