Some updates since the election:
• US trade unionists pass historic general strike vote
• Trump trashes house on the way out
• Fighting Trumpism: the next four years
• Video: After the US, which way forward for the left? (Robert Cuffy, Ruth Cashman, Thomas Harrison)
• Socialist politics can push back Trumpism
• Trump's defeat: excerpts from the US left
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Workers' Liberty advocates a vote for the US Green Party's presidential candidate, socialist activist Howie Hawkins; but not all our members and supporters agree. We have carried a series of articles with different positions and perspectives, which are collected together below (most recent first).
• Backing Biden will not stop Trumpism, by Charlie Post and Ashley Smith
• Back Hawkins, not Biden (AWL National Committee)
• A policy based in realities, by Martin Thomas
• Fascism and Trump: theory and history, by Martin Thomas
• Debate: Marxists and Democrats, by Martin Thomas
• 24 October AWL committee debate on the election
• Why American unions back Biden, by Eric Lee
• Use election to build socialist politics, by Daniel Randall
• Lesser-evilism in the 2020 US Elections, by Barry Finger
• Trump and epoch, by Luke Hardy
• Democrats: no space for radicals, by Mark Obsorn
• Democrats: the danger of co-option, by Daniel Randall
• "A stronger vote against Trump": interview with Howie Hawkins
• This election is different in two ways, by Martin Thomas
• Hawkins and Walker: socialist candidates (statement by AWL)
• Why socialists should not support Hawkins, by Eric Lee
• Trump: not fascist, maybe pre-fascist, by Matt Cooper
• The threat from Trump, by Thomas Carolan
• A socialist vote for Biden, by Thomas Carolan
• Not just hope, action, by Jim Denham
• What Hawkins can build, by Simon Nelson
• The case for backing Hawkins, by Daniel Randall
• Donald Trump is a fascist, by Thomas Carolan
• A socialist voice in difficult times, by Keith Road
• Earlier debate on our attitude to Bernie Sanders, from Kieran Miles and Justine Canady, here and here.
See also:
• Range of articles published by US socialist group Solidarity
• Don't support Biden, even against Trump, published by US socialist magazine New Politics
• Why I'm voting for Biden and urge you to do so, published the New Politics
• The lesser evil trap, published by US socialist magazine Tempest
• Debate with US socialists, published by Australian socialist publication Red Flag
Plus on the threat of a Trump coup:
• US workers plan for Trump coup, updates on 2 November
• "If Trump attempts a coup, all bets are off": our interview with Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen
• Unions are beginning to talk about staving off a possible coup, published by US trade union network Labor Notes
• 10 things you need to know to stop a coup, republished by Solidarity US
• Social self-defence against the impending Trump coup and How workers can help defeat a Trump coup, published by Labor Network for Sustainability
• Unions are starting discussions of how to resist a Trump coup, published by Jacobin
