John Bachtell
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Bachtell
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Opinion
Arkansas is planning an execution spree
March 22, 2017Arkansas is planning to execute eight death row inmates over a span of just 11 days in April. Why the rush? The state’s supply of execution drugs is expiring.
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Politics
Left-center unity needed to defeat Trump
March 9, 2017The all-people’s coalition is not based on organizing the left against the right. Unity of left and center, along with every other class and social force opposed to the right, is needed.
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U.S.
Is Trump tearing up the U.S. Constitution?
February 8, 2017The moment he took the oath of office for president, the nation began hurtling toward a Constitutional crisis.
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Opinion
Trump’s Russia connection and the threat to democracy
January 31, 2017It will take the combined majority of Americans and global mass action to defeat this new global right wing axis.
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Opinion
It wasn’t economic populism that undermined the Clinton campaign
December 6, 2016It was not just class issues and economic populism that were at play in this election, but also broad democratic questions around gender, nationality and race.
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Opinion
Resist Trump at every turn
December 1, 2016Everything changed as of Nov. 8. With the takeover of the Republican Party by white supremacists, a new kind of right-wing and authoritarian danger has emerged.
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Opinion
After the Trump election: Fight! Resist! Organize!
November 11, 2016The road to freedom, peace, equality, and preserving life on Earth is a long one; full of twists and unexpected turns – and reverses. The 2016 election is one of them.
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Opinion
People across the political spectrum rising to defeat Trump
October 25, 2016Trump is the fruit of the seeds of hate the GOP and right-wing have been sowing for the past 30 years.
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