Resistance to US President Donald Trump’s murderous deportation regime has deepened ahead of a planned citywide day of action this Friday in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We have become accustomed to referring to postwar periods: the post-Second World War era, the post-Vietnam era, the post-Cold War era. But we have potentially entered a new and dangerous prewar era of intense superpower jockeying in which bloc politics returns to the fore.
The line being spun by New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s team is that his abject display of bootlicking in the White House was a strategic masterstroke that has put Trump on the backfoot. Yet Mamdani achieved not a single concession, not a single win.
In virtually every election held in every district and every state on 4 November, Democrats improved on their performance in last year’s presidential election. And in many places, they exceeded their most optimistic predictions. “No Kings” went to the polls.
