US ELECTORAL College members have been inundated with tens of thousands of emails demanding they deny Donald Trump the presidency.
In a report by the Associated Press released yesterday, 330 of the 538 electors were asked whether they would join the Hamilton Electors — a group attempting to steer electors away from the two candidates in favour of a third.
Most scotched the notion, with many stating that it was their duty to vote according to the popular vote.
PAUL BUHLE recommends an eminently useful book that examines the political opportunities for popular anti-fascist intervention
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
The New York mayoral candidate has electrified the US public with policies of social justice and his refusal to be cowed. We can follow his example here, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
The prospect of the Democratic Socialists of America member’s victory in the mayoral race has terrified billionaires and outraged the centrist liberal Establishment by showing that listening to voters about class issues works, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY


