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July 4, 2019 By JASON PRAMAS

THE RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE BROAD LEFT

On July 5, start asking the Democrats, “What policies will help working families?”

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August 28, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

VOTING AS A SOCIALIST IS STILL HARD (IN THE MASSACHUSETTS OF 2018)

The received political wisdom is that the major parties have set up so many structural roadblocks over their many decades in power that it’s impossible for any of the smaller so-called third parties to achieve major party status. And from my experience that received wisdom has been correct. So far.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: analysis, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, Apparent Horizon, Column, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialists of America, economy, Green Party, Green-Rainbow Party, Jason Pramas, Labor Party, left libertarian, Massachusetts, politics, Republican Party, Socialism, socialist, Socialist Alternative, third parties, unenrolled, USA, voting, Working Families Party

November 27, 2016 By JASON PRAMAS

TEMPORARY RADICALS? DISAFFECTED DEMS NEED TO STAY IN THE STREETS AFTER THE GOP MENACE IS BEATEN BACK

November 27, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS There is little agreement on the broad American left. But the ascension of Donald Trump to the top of the political heap caused a virtual panic from the most conservative corporate Democrats to the hardest core anarchists and communists. Which resulted in a sudden, and probably brief, unity […]

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November 8, 2016 By JASON PRAMAS

DEMOCRATIZE AMERICA: THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE NATION AND THE PLANET DOESN’T STOP ON ELECTION DAY

November 8, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS This is not a dream. For your whole life, you’ve seen images on screens showing brutal political struggles in faraway places like Ukraine and Yemen. And in the rare moments you’ve paid attention to the suffering you’ve seen, you’ve asked yourself, “How could things get so bad that […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: BINJ, democracy, global warming, Jason Pramas, journalism, Massachusetts, nuclear war, opinion, podcast, politics, Progressive, USA

October 24, 2016 By JASON PRAMAS

UMASS CAMBRIDGE: MAKING HARVARD UNIVERSITY PUBLIC WILL SOLVE ITS WORKERS’ PROBLEMS—AND THE COMMONWEALTH’S HIGHER ED CRISIS

October 24, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Three weeks into their strike, Harvard University dining hall workers are in a difficult position. Their union’s demands for better wages, benefits, and working conditions are falling on deaf ears in the Harvard administration. They cannot continue picketing indefinitely on $200 weekly strike pay—which itself won’t last for […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: BINJ, Cambridge, democracy, Harvard, higher education, Jason Pramas, journalism, labor, Massachusetts, opinion, podcast, politics, Progressive, strike, UMass, union, UNITE HERE, USA

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