Daniel Lazare
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Class, culture and generation
Daniel Lazare welcomes the Jewish civil war that is being fought out in cancellations, sackings, demonstrations, petitions and boycotts
Zionism needs anti-Semitism
John Hagee’s turn as a key speaker caused much liberal consternation - he is, after all, a notorious anti‑Semite. Daniel Lazare comments on the aftermath of the huge pro-Israel demonstration in Washington DC
America’s neo-Weimar constitution
Outwardly, America still seems like a normal country, so predictions of doom and gloom may seem over the top. But, says Daniel Lazare, the danger of authoritarianism is all too real
The forgotten war
Ukraine demonstrates how the sun is beginning to set on the US empire, argues Daniel Lazare. And now there is Gaza and the danger of a general conflagration in the Middle East
A Jewish crisis
Zionism ≠ Judaism. Daniel Lazare looks at the effect that Israel’s oppression of Palestine is having on American Jews - as more and more of them join protests against the threat of genocide in Gaza
Joe Biden’s two-front war
Economically more and more debt, diplomatically more and more enemies, militarily more and more wars. Daniel Lazare sees imperial overload
Biden’s sinking ship
The greater the disarray, the greater the odds that Trump will return to the White House. Daniel Lazare charts the administration’s self-inflicted woes and the necessity of breaking with the Democrats
Liberals and authoritarians
Joe Biden does not, cannot, understand the MAGA movement. Daniel Lazare looks at his September 28 speech and finds something rotten in the state of America
Opening up yet another front
Saudi Arabia and the US are looking to repair their strained relationship with a strategic deal which could easily lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, says Daniel Lazare
Investigations drag on and on
We all know who did it … and it was not Russia. Daniel Lazare looks at how the right is gaining traction from telling an evident truth
Once more unto the breach
Workers did not rule and suffered terrible oppression, but, sticking to the provisional assessment made by Trotsky in the 1930s, the Soviet Union was still a workers’ state, insists Daniel Lazare
Techno-conservatism
This is no time for degrowth, green reductionism or confining our ambitions to mere custodianship of nature, argues Daniel Lazare
Closer to the brink
Donald Trump faces numerous legal challenges. Despite that he runs neck-and-neck with Joe Biden in the polls and could well win the next presidential election. Daniel Lazare gives his take on the pending constitutional crisis
Year of four trials
Legal case follows legal case. Expect a crack-up even bigger than January 2021, says Daniel Lazare
Their fantasy, our nightmare
Ukraine’s offensive is getting nowhere and when a compromise is eventually reached Zelensky will be in deep trouble, argues Daniel Lazare
Skin colour or social class?
Liberal anti-racism inevitably engenders racism. Affirmative action is collapsing under the weight of its own internal contradictions, argues Daniel Lazare
Both sides cracking
Russia is not the only major power that is feeling the strain, argues Daniel Lazare . The US is too
Bussing and abusing
More and more Republican states are cynically treating migrants as political pawns. But what lies behind the surge in numbers coming over the border? Daniel Lazare blames wars, global warming, economic meltdown and the booming illegal drugs trade
Never same again
Charging Donald Trump has had far-right Republicans reaching for their guns. Will he go down? Daniel Lazare is sure: maybe yes, maybe no
Biden dodges a bullet
While an immediate financial abyss has been avoided, Daniel Lazare sees all the tell-tale signs of long‑term imperial decline
J6ers await their pardon
Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, has been handed a 18-year sentence. Daniel Lazare gives notice that the ultra-right combatants of Trump’s January 6 self-coup attempt could soon be free
14th amendment threat
The debt-ceiling crisis is the direct result of the antiquated constitution, argues Daniel Lazare, but ‘emergency measures’ would be a gift for Trump
A tale of two liars
Despite the court judgment over defamation and sexual assault, he has come roaring back with a triumphant CNN ‘town hall’ performance. But, argues Daniel Lazare, the liberal bourgeois media is no more reliable than Trump’s fact-free claims
Blame the system itself
Self-defence is no offence, insists Daniel Lazare. The death of Jordan Neely was an avoidable tragedy
Their militia and ours
Workers should not take the second amendment as their starting point when establishing a militia. No, fighting to repeal the second amendment and nationalising guns comes first. Daniel Lazare responds to Jack Conrad
Reinforcing state control
There is a close link between a hegemon’s diminishing role and that of the media, argues Daniel Lazare
End right to bear arms
Spurred on by a whole series of mass killings and a fascist militia movement, Daniel Lazare calls for the repeal of the second amendment
Government by swarm
The former president faces 34 criminal charges. But Trumpism will grow stronger, whatever happens at his trial, argues Daniel Lazare. He is already clear favourite to run in the 2024 election
Creeping civil war
Georgia votes, classified papers and Stormy Daniels hush money. Daniel Lazare weighs up the chances of Donald Trump being paraded before the press in handcuffs
Counting stolen elections
At last we have definitive confirmation that the Republicans were urging Iran not to release US hostages until Ronald Reagan was elected. Daniel Lazare comments
American death trip
The war on drugs has been a horrendous failure. So, asks Daniel Lazare, why do governments remain hooked on repression?
Now it’s Ukrainians
The Nord Stream story continues to grow ever more complex and strange. Daniel Lazare attempts to cut through the confusion
Ohio’s perfect storm
Daniel Lazare warns that, with Trump skilfully championing poor whites, with weak trade unions and a ‘left’ intent on tailing Biden, the danger of a rightwing dictatorship grows
Bellicose balloonacy
Ludicrous allegations against China reveal a political system that is losing touch with rational thought, says Daniel Lazare
Lawless mafia capo
It was always obvious who was responsible for the Nord Stream 1 and 2 explosions. But why did the US do it? Daniel Lazare says it is about asserting control over energy
Resisting the incoming tide
Daniel Lazare pours scorn on the House of Representatives’ utterly incoherent, but revealing, resolution condemning the ‘horrors of socialism’
Barking at the moon
Ignoring the huge catalogue of articles, speeches and resolutions, Daniel Lazare accuses Moshé Machover and the CPGB of silence when it comes to class politics in the context of Israel-Palestine
German Ostpolitik collapses
What lies behind the furore over sending Leopard 2 tanks to the Ukraine battlefield? Something deeper is going on, writes Daniel Lazare
Not equality to compete
Communists should demand special measures to protect women from capitalist exploitation, not ‘genuine equality’ in the workplace. Daniel Lazare investigates the Pump Act
Great American breakdown
As far-right control of the US Congress promises slash-and-burn austerity, Daniel Lazare calls for rejection of the existing constitution and a constituent assembly to establish a real democracy
Mongols versus Vikings
Daniel Lazare examines the dangerous stew of ethno-nationalisms that emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union
Crime of victimless crime
The harsh treatment meted out to Brittney Griner gives us a glimpse of the human cost of the so-called war on drugs. Daniel Lazare looks at five decades of horror
Israeli far right is making the far right mainstream
If the fight against anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are closely connected, it is a blunder to have Hamas in the leadership of the BDS campaign, suggests Daniel Lazare
A wave that really happened
Donald Trump has announced his candidacy and the Republican right is getting ready to investigate the president’s son. Daniel Lazare expects the results to be interesting
An ageing republic
The Trumpists did badly but Joe Biden is highly vulnerable. Daniel Lazare looks at what passes for democracy in America
Trump’s bubble bursts
The Republicans’ red wave turned into a ripple. With results still coming in, Daniel Lazare gives his assessment of the US midterms and their likely effects
Ukraine and the ‘left’
When on earth will the DSA and ‘the Squad’ come up with a principled position? Daniel Lazare reports on the dismal failings of the US ‘pwogs’
War intensifies at home
Having defied midterm gravity for months, the Democrats are back to self-destruction. Daniel Lazare reports on the latest legal move against Donald Trump
More on the way
The military top brass were actively blocking presidential orders. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were cowering from the neo-fascist mob unleashed by the president. Daniel Lazare sees a constitutional order in an advanced state of decay
Journalism? What journalism?
Daniel Lazare looks behind the anti-Russia lies and spin and finds a corporate media that has no interest nor concern for the truth
Weighing the evidence
After eliminating the improbable, Daniel Lazare points a finger of blame at the probable culprit
The Blob closes in
Trump is a con artist with a transactional approach to the law. However, argues Daniel Lazare, Democrat attempts to prosecute him are political warfare by other means
America’s ‘great game’
With Russia facing humiliation in Ukraine, Daniel Lazare provides his own assessment of US ambitions in the global ‘Heartland’
No substitute needed
American socialists in rapture over Enough is Enough want to avoid the hard work and clear political lines necessary to establish a revolutionary party, says Daniel Lazare
Collection of Euclidean axioms
Daniel Lazare welcomes Joe Biden’s Philadelphia speech on the danger posed by Maga Republicans, but the idea that democracy can be won by upholding an antiquated, undemocratic constitution is risible
What’s the matter with Kansas?
While the cheering is understandable, the results of the abortion referendum are still problematic. Daniel Lazare comments on a so-called victory for ‘individual rights’
Pulling the dragon’s tail
Dan Lazare looks at the dangerous implications of Nancy Pelosi’s provocative trip to Taiwan, and the silence of the congressional left
Coup and collapse
Daniel Lazare looks at the damning made-for-TV congressional hearings on Trump’s coup attempt - and their ultimate futility
Biden’s Middle East stumble
The president’s tour was an embarrassment for the US establishment from start to finish, writes Daniel Lazare
Let’s talk about divorce
Does Biden’s lame response to the Supreme Court mark the end of the line for the DSA’s strategic reliance on the Democrats? Daniel Lazare argues for a break
Democracy in America?
The latest attack on abortion rights shows the danger of worshipping the constitution, writes Daniel Lazare
On a collision course
Daniel Lazare reviews 'The avoidable war: the dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China' by Kevin Rudd (PublicAffairs Books, 2022, pp432, £17)
Revisiting January 6
Hearings into the failed coup bid are all very well and good, says Daniel Lazare. But there is more to the breakdown of the political system than Donald Trump
Guns, class and social decay
After the Uvalde school massacre the question of gun control has once again topped the political agenda. But, argues Daniel Lazare, do not expect anything much to change
Designed to shorten lives
Cars, drugs and now the Uvalde school massacre, Daniel Lazare looks at the American way of death
About-turn at the top
While Democrats stampede to back the war, writes Daniel Lazare, it is the Republican right which is now anti-war
Right strikes at abortion right
Sexual barbarism is about to return with a vengeance, but, Daniel Lazare insists, it would be profoundly mistaken to rely on the constitution to defend the gains made in a past generation
From Biden, to Austin, to Truss
Despite the failure of phase one - the attempt to take Kyiv - Daniel Lazare says it is Nato that is floundering, not Russia’s invasion
Rival nationalist bigotries
Daniel Lazare investigates the thriving rightwing ideology on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine divide
Will the war spread?
It is not just the immediate consequences for Russia and Ukraine that should concern us, argues Daniel Lazare
The war party
With the Republican right still preaching isolationism, it is the Democrats who are now gung-ho for wars and military adventures, writes Daniel Lazare
What hath Zbig wrought?
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s grand strategy is alive and well under Biden, writes Daniel Lazare
Nazis? What Nazis?
One thing is clearly missing from the media coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, argues Daniel Lazare
Four anti-war nos
Daniel Lazare welcomes the refusal of the DSA’s international committee to go along with the Democrats’ warmongering
America’s drive to the east
A volcano of violence has been unleashed by Putin’s invasion, but Daniel Lazare places the main blame on the United States
BDS: for or against?
Israeli settler-colonialism and the appropriate solidarity movement with the Palestinians were debated at the February 13 Online Communist Forum. Daniel Lazare argued that the BDS campaign is a cross-class popular front which therefore should be shunned. Mike Macnair stressed the US alliance with Israel, attempts to outlaw BDS and the ongoing witch-hunt against anti-Zionists in the Labour Party
Dangling in mid-air
Biden’s whole social programme has fallen victim to the undemocratic Senate. Daniel Lazare warns that there is a distinct danger of a minority regime
Path to nowhere
Daniel Lazare accuses his critics of burying their heads in the sand over the nature of the BDS campaign
Taking a pass on Israel
Daniel Lazare denounces the DSA’s unprincipled stand on congressman Jamaal Bowman and controversially questions the whole BDS movement
Exercise in double standards
Joe Biden’s forthcoming ‘summit for democracy’ is all about securing US hegemony, argues Daniel Lazare
Rittenhouse and white backlash
The second amendment provides constitutional cover for a counterrevolutionary army of Boogaloos and freelance ultras, argues Daniel Lazare
Disintegration of Russiagate
Daniel Lazare delves into the murky world of dossiers, secret agents and pro-Democrat conspiracies
All workers lose out
With the Democrats going downhill fast, Daniel Lazare looks at the role played by ‘critical race theory’
The proletarian sovereign
Does the USA have a supreme source of authority? Daniel Lazare takes issue with Mike Macnair
Slow-motion civil war
Donald Trump is gearing up to run in 2024 and the ground is already being laid for another coup attempt. It is time for ‘we, the people’ to act, says Daniel Lazare
Approaching train wreck
With Donald Trump getting ready to run again in 2024, Joe Biden’s support has collapsed in opinion polls. Daniel Lazare explains why
Across the entire spectrum
Whistleblower Frances Haugen said what people wanted to hear. Daniel Lazare scoffs at the moral panic over Facebook and Instagram
Tudor, Whig or what?
No ultimate source of sovereignty: Daniel Lazare takes issue with Mike Macnair on the nature of the US constitution
One coup attempt or two?
There was general Mark Milley too. Daniel Lazare re-examines January 6 in light of the latest revelations
Another ‘flight forward’?
Daniel Lazare asks whether or not any lessons have been learnt from forty years of war and disaster
A wounded giant retreats
America spent, bribed, killed and bungled on a massive scale. Daniel Lazare assesses the consequences
Arms and the duopoly
Afghanistan was a disastrous bipartisan war supported by Democrats and Republicans alike. Daniel Lazare lambasts the idea that the solution lies in a third bourgeois party untainted by the arms industry
Reasons for Afghan debacles
Daniel Lazare reviews: Rodric Braithwaite ‘Afgantsy: the Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89’ Oxford University Press, 2011, pp448, £10.28; Artemy M Kalinovsky ‘A long goodbye: the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan’ Harvard University Press, 2011, pp290, £22.95; Bruce Riedel ‘What we won: America’s secret war in Afghanistan, 1979-89’ Brookings, 2014, pp189, £17
Tears and yet more tears
The more they blubber, writes Daniel Lazare, the more evident it becomes they have nothing to say
Contradictions intensify
As Trump lays the ground for another presidential run, Republicans impose further restrictions on voting rights. Daniel Lazare sees a looming constitutional crisis
Another forced scuttle
There have been lies and lies and yet more lies. Daniel Lazare savages what has been a comprehensive failure, from the ‘light footprint’ military model to the final humiliating pull-out
Carrying the can
The liberal establishment wants us to believe that the ‘war on terror’ was all Donald Rumsfeld’s fault. Daniel Lazare begs to disagree
Desperately clinging on
The Putin-Biden summit illustrates one thing above all: US hypocrisy. Daniel Lazare looks at election interference and the debacle in Afghanistan
Paralysis of ruling elite
The linkage between a frozen constitution, democratic decline and sexual rigidity is subtle yet powerful, argues Daniel Lazare
Texas and the F-word
Can fascism be established in the absence of a working class threat? Daniel Lazare believes it is possible
Strategic rivalries remain
Daniel Lazare says ending tensions with Russia will take more than discarding opposition to Nord Stream 2
Assault on democracy
Trump’s cult of the personality is taking on Bonapartist traits. Rather than a fellow member, he plainly sees himself as a monarch, lording over the GOP while in temporary exile. Daniel Lazare reports
Anti-imperialism of fools?
Daniel Lazare savages the ‘solidarity with the Syrian people’ petition fronted by disorientated luminaries such as Noam Chomsky, George Monbiot and Ariel Dorfman
Drugs war bad
With ever increasing numbers of desperate Latin American people fleeing for their lives, Daniel Lazare looks at those on the left who refuse to address the central problem
Is war on the way?
Mounting tensions between Russia and the west over Ukraine could have serious international consequences, warns Daniel Lazare
Labour’s latest Waterloo
The defeat of the campaign for union recognition at Amazon is not as straightforward as might be thought, argues Daniel Lazare
Playing into imperialist hands
Foppe de Haan seems to have been taken in by the campaign to demonise China, argues Daniel Lazare
No let up in cold war
What is Joe Biden up to? Daniel Lazare looks at the wild allegations against Xi Jinping and China
America’s Chernenko
The stumbling, bumbling Joe Biden is like the former Soviet leader in more ways than one, writes Daniel Lazare
Uyghurs: why now?
Are the Chinese guilty of ‘genocide’? Daniel Lazare looks behind the wall-to-wall propaganda
System in reverse
What does Joe Biden’s massive Covid relief package mean for ordinary working class people? Daniel Lazare looks behind the Keynesian promises of jam today and jam tomorrow
A central driver
The unchanging constitution no longer ensures stability: quite the reverse. As shown by the January 6 attempted coup, it brings instability. Daniel Lazare defends his long held position
Trying to reverse the irreversible
‘We’re back!’ cries Biden. But, asks Daniel Lazare, will its allies welcome the US as the undisputed global hegemon once again?
Heading for self-destruction
Impeachment and acquittal: but, says Daniel Lazare, Trump was guilty as charged
The meaning of January 6
A riot, a coup attempt or something in between? Daniel Lazare responds to three recently published articles in the Weekly Worker
One episode in long-term process
Vladimir Putin cannot be blamed for America’s worst president ever. Daniel Lazare assesses the four turbulent years
Trump’s ‘march on Rome’
The current US republic is heading towards an eventual downfall, contends Daniel Lazare
Rear-view mirror
Are we approaching the end of US hegemony? Daniel Lazare discusses Biden’s likely role, following the years of Obama and Trump
A guide for the perplexed
The country faces a systemic crisis. Daniel Lazare argues that ‘Repocratic’ politics inevitably leads to chaos
Just as we predicted
It is clear from Biden’s cabinet appointments that he will preside over totally incoherent policies, writes Daniel Lazare
Trump’s big win
Joe Biden himself was a target when it came to the decision to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist, writes Daniel Lazare
End in sight
The wheels have fallen off Trump’s attempt to steal the election. Daniel Lazare grapples with the unwillingness of the GOP to move towards dictatorship and mass repression
American crisis mounts
The current fraught situation highlights the huge breakdown that is in the offing, argues Daniel Lazare
Washington wars intensify
Will Trump be able to overrule ‘democracy’? It is far from impossible, writes Daniel Lazare
At breaking point
With Republicans and Democrats fighting over the few remaining state delegates and threats of appeals to the Supreme Court, Daniel Lazare predicts that the constitutional crisis can only get worse
Mutual collapse
Whoever wins on November 3, writes Daniel Lazare, the downhill slide looks set to continue
Covid-19 set to destroy Trump?
Daniel Lazare says the excess deaths are not only down to the president’s incompetence
More Russia wars
The US political crisis cannot be reduced to a single party or individual, writes Daniel Lazare
Nineteenth nervous breakdown
Daniel Lazare denounces the checks and balances that make what passes for ‘democracy’ such a shambles
Royal high court
Why the commotion over the death of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Daniel Lazare gives his answers
Weimarisation of politics
Daniel Lazare sees striking parallels between pre-Hitler Germany and America today
Positive and negative
Daniel Lazare reviews Christian Parenti's "Radical Hamilton: economic lessons from a misunderstood founder"
Repackaging the ancien régime
Is the priority getting rid of Trump at all costs? Daniel Lazare takes a look at the reactionary nature of the Biden-Harris programme
Going straight downhill
Who’s trying to rig the US elections, asks Daniel Lazare - Republicans, Democrats or both?
Strategy of tension
Forces supposedly opposed to an authoritarian takeover are helping to pave the way for it, writes Daniel Lazare
What will remain of democracy?
With Trump now employing paramilitary forces, writes Daniel Lazare, the signs are not good
A plague on both houses
Trump has rewarded Roger Stone and the Democrats want Julian Assange cruelly punished, says Daniel Lazare
Power of child-like logic
Without a centralised leadership BLM risks playing into Trump’s hands, argues Daniel Lazare
Toppling over a cliff
It is not just Trump’s fault that cases of Covid-19 are soaring, writes Daniel Lazare
End of the Donald?
Suddenly everything seems to be going wrong for the president, says Daniel Lazare
Trump: three questions
Daniel Lazare looks at the possibilities in the presidential election
Race über alles?
Daniel Lazare looks beneath the skin of Black Lives Matter and reveals the links with big business
America explodes - again
As Trump exploits middle class fears we should expect more tyranny, not less, writes Daniel Lazare
The Biden disaster
Daniel Lazare recalls the consistently reactionary politics of the Democratic presidential candidate
Coronavirus and the political organism
There is now a hole where a superpower used to be, writes Daniel Lazare
Democracy is central
In the wake of Bernie Sanders’ withdrawal, Daniel Lazare responds to recent contributions
An empire unravelling
Daniel Lazare believes that Covid-19 could mean the end for the USA in its current form
The great Bernie bust
It is now all but certain that Joe Biden will be the Democratic candidate, writes Daniel Lazare.
Subordinate to the bourgeoisie
It is true that Sanders is mobilising the working class, writes Daniel Lazare. But for what?
Explosive contradictions
Daniel Lazare looks at America’s primitive constitution, the Sanders surge and asks ... ‘what if’.
Stronger than ever
While it is good that Trump was acquitted, writes Daniel Lazare, the slide into authoritarianism is now set to continue.
America, the robotic
Daniel Lazare examines the role of a reactionary constitution in the battle over Trump’s impeachment.
Fury, frustration and volatility
Daniel Lazare examines the dilemmas, contradictions and warmongering of US imperialism.
Russia, Russia, Russia …
The Democrats’ campaign for Trump’s impeachment is a symptom of a sea change, writes Daniel Lazare.
Most dangerous woman in America?
Daniel Lazare considers the role of Fiona Hill in the anti-Trump impeachment campaign.
Abolish the filibuster
The constitution of the United States is designed to thwart democracy, observes Dan Lazare.
Russiagate and what it says about America
The US is in decline, writes Daniel Lazare, and making matters worse it is saddled with an antiquated constitution.