UK politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks agoHow Not to Get a Progressive Party off the Ground
A new left-wing party led by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn challenges Labour amid deep internal divisions and the risk of splitting progressive votes.
DNC resolutions, on their own, mean little as Israel continues to bombard and starve out Gaza, where the death toll exceeds 60,000. Donald Trump controls the government, not the Democrats, and he has enabled, like his predecessor Joe Biden, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at every turn, pumping the nation with armaments and sanctioning all military action. But the feebleness of the Democratic Party is notable; its leaders truly have no sense of the current moment.