Subjects Archives: Democracy

Tobi Lütke’s remarks reflect a long tradition of elite hostility to democratic equality.

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro this Monday presented evidence of an algorithmic and systematic electoral fraud that allegedly altered the results of seven million votes to impose Abelardo de la Espriella as elected-President.

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

The Democrat establishment poured millions into protecting its incumbents in New York City, but voters chose progressive anti-genocide challengers. That party will fight against the reality that AIPAC is now a liability.

When people look at Venezuela from the outside, they often reduce Chavismo to its leadership. Leadership is important, of course, but it is only one part of a much broader reality. Over time, the Bolivarian Process has built institutional strength, political organization, territorial presence, and forms of popular participation that go far beyond electoral politics.

India’s citizens are witnessing a remarkable inversion of democracy: a government choosing its voters rather than the other way around.

Emergency legislation lays the foundations to crush the Bolivian anti-government protests argues Jonathan Maunders

As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival.

In previous writings, we advanced an inventive new model for municipal finance: what we call the Seattle Loop. By establishing a city-owned public bank, we propose, Seattle can not only expand public investment through municipal lending and provide residents with low-cost financial services; it can also purchase its own bonds and “loop” the interest back to the […]

A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let alone finance. Despite the proliferation of sticky notes with compelling schemes, as Amanda Manitach describes in The Stranger, the arts roundtable lacked a cohesive strategy for gathering its aspirational potpourri […]

This weekend news broke that the Trump Administration fired members of the National Science Board—an apolitical board of eminent experts charged with advising and providing oversight of the National Science Foundation. These experts serve staggered six-year terms, but on Friday members had their service abruptly terminated in a message signed on behalf of the president. […]

Rethinking Cuba’s political system as a model of participatory democracy.

On social contract theory, economic power, and the limits of liberal democratic governance.

Recent comments by Ibrahim Traoré on democracy have spread widely in Western media following an interview, but interpretations that he rejects democracy appear to misrepresent his position.

A country that presents itself as the “global model of democracy” continues to treat a small socialist island as a persistent threat.

In a context defined by extreme scarcity, intensified blockade pressure, and deep structural constraints, Cuba insists that the people must remain protagonists of the country’s political policy making and economic reconstruction.

“I just think there’s a total lack of trust in what the federal government will do,” says Alaska state Sen. Bill Wielechowski.

In a recent essay, we advanced a proposal for sub-federal governments to sell municipal bonds to their own public banks. We took the city as our primary point of departure, but the same lessons are applicable to U.S. counties and states. Establishing a public bank that regularly purchases municipal debt, we argued, would not only significantly […]

What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and federal levels who refuse to push back? Right now, we see austerity budgets appearing across every institution and major employer in the U.S. If the federal government continues to sabotage municipalities, […]

The importance of revolutionary democracy is manifested in two critical axes of the socialist economy: the planning of economic development and the distribution of wealth.