Voting in national elections is pointless. This is true irrespective of the details of the electoral system. Your vote is vanishingly unimportant.

It does not follow that electoral politics should be ignored. It does mean that if you do think it matters who is in Parliament and you want change, you have to organise. Building a movement is not pointless. It is how a group changes what is possible. Look at what the DSA achieved in New York. If you don't want change, you don't need to build a movement. You can just encourage people to vote.

Do note that demanding that people shut up and vote to keep out the bad guys is to maintain the status quo. Your movement for change might decide that it is not in a position to win and so lend its support to a status quo candidate, but that is not the same thing as demanding unity. You don't shut-up.

#Politics, #Voting, #PopularFront

#ICE: Americans Killed by #WhiteHouseParamilitaries

https://bit.ly/4kbInuX

#PopularFront speaks to journalist #AliWinston

#fascism #PopularFront

"What We Need Is a Popular Front Against Fascism

As fascism’s grip only grows tighter, the popular fronts of yesterday can become blueprints for solidarity today.

'We share a common interest, survival, and it cannot be pursued in isolation from others simply because their differences make us uncomfortable.' — Audre Lorde"

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-big-idea-popular-front-coalition-left-fascism-democracy-1930s-france-spain-blackness-liberation-audre-lorde-survival-alliance-politics

The racially mixed , smartly dressed browsers of progressive books in this 1938 photograph seem to be living out the CPUSA slogan of that time, "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism"; note the "Harvard Communist" in the lower right hand quarter of the picture, the nearby collection box for aid for Spain, and the photograph of volunteers who were fighting for the Spanish Republican cause.

The following year's cynically concluded Hitler-Stalin pact and the anticommunism of the postwar decades dealt the US left blows from which it has never fully recovered.

I wonder about the various fates of the individuals pictured here.

#USHistory #PeoplesFront #PopularFront #CPUSA #Books #USPolitics #USLeft

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-satanist-plot-to-assassinate-trump/id1364539980?i=1000704373744

21 April 2025

#PopularFront

The Satanist Plot to Assassinate Trump

#farright #extrêmedroite O9A #accelerationists #antiempathy #AntiEmpathyFarRight

PFLP Calls for Worldwide Besieging of Elbit Systems

Note – Global map of Elbit Systems locations and subsidiaries: https://act.progressive.international/out-palestine/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18575

#alAqsaFlood #palestine #pflp #popularFront #resistance #ShutElbitDown #westAsia

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/popular-front/cost-of-living-riots-in-a-west-indies-paradise/

#Martinique #PopularFront 26 oct 2024 42.22 min.

Researcher #LouisStavenhagen speaks to #JakeHanrahan about the vastly under-reported anger breaking out across Martinique.

#Colonialisme #racime #CostOfLiving #FuckMacron

exellent conversation on Popular Front with Lebanese journalist and activist Elia AyoubFollowing Nasrallah assassination, please give this a listen, its paywalled on the patreon but you can get it for free from rss feed, just subscribe, thank me later https://popularfront.libsyn.com/rss

#Lebanon #Israel #PopularFront