Coverage since the 4 November 2020 election:
• Responses to questions, by Martin Thomas
• Some questions, by Duncan Morrison
• "Trumpist militias" and other questions, by Daniel Randall
• USA: the issues, by Martin Thomas
• The Democrats, by Paul Hampton
• Three central propositions, by Duncan Morrison
• Some thoughts on the debate, by Daniel Randall
• The third camp and the lesser evil, by Paul Hampton
• The US left and Democrat primaries, by Mark Osborn
• Ten terse responses, by Paul Hampton
• Five quick responses, by Martin Thomas
• Call things by their right names, by Paul Hampton
• Seven more points on the US debates, by Martin Thomas
• The USA: politics as a "business" and populism - an excerpt from Frederick Engels, and an article by Martin Thomas, from Socialist Organiser 30 August 1984
• Recognising 21st century fascism, by Barrie Hardy
• Some responses on the USA, by Martin Thomas
• Two contributions to the US debate: Trump, serious threat but not a fascist; and, Shachtman's mistakes are not our model, by Paul Hampton
• US: four areas of disagreement , by Ben Tausz
• Two proposals relating to the US Democrats, by Martin Thomas
• The US left and Trump: replying to debate, by Martin Thomas
• US politics and Trump: a discussion document, by Daniel Randall, Ben Tausz, Paul Hampton, and Stephen Wood
• A 0.32% swing, by Colin Foster
• Voting for bourgeois candidates, by Ruth Cashman and Duncan Morrison
• Crisis? What crisis?, by Barrie Hardy
• Democrats will only tinker, by Stephen Wood
• The USA in light of the impeachment hearing, by Thomas Carolan
• USA: not the greatest crisis, by Mark Osborn
• Prosecuting Trump matters, by Barrie Hardy
• Trump, Caligula, and Nero, by Thomas Carolan
• Beware new security powers!, by Sacha Ismail
• USA: building the movement, by Traven Leyshon
• Barriers to Trumpism, by Martin Thomas
• Trump: lock him up?, by Stephen Wood
• USA: unfinished business, by Barrie Hardy
• Trumpism will endure, by Sam Farber
• Storming the Capitol: strange comparisons, by Jim Denham
• Today farce, tomorrow tragedy?, from Spectre
• Will Trump pay for his crimes?, by Barrie Hardy
• The USA needs to be made a proper democracy, by Thomas Carolan
• 6 January 2021 and 6 February 1934, by Martin Thomas
• The organised far right on 6 January 2021, by Luca Brusco
• Trump leaves chaos in his wake, by Barrie Hardy
• US rail workers' struggles in the wake of the election (John Feretti and Traven Leyshon)
• US trade unionists pass historic general strike vote, by Daniel Randall
• Trump trashes house on the way out, by Barrie Hardy
• Fighting Trumpism: the next four years, by Martin Thomas
• 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 (Maria Svart, David Finkel, Dan La Botz, Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker)
Workers' Liberty advocated a vote for the US Green Party's presidential candidate, socialist activist Howie Hawkins; but not all our members and supporters agreed. We 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 Osborn
• 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 by 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