In Defense of Kshama Sawant - New Politics
In Defense of Kshama Sawant Call it a voter-suppression effort, ex post facto. The attempt to remove Kshama Sawant from her seat on Seattle’s City Council through a recall petition is a blatant attack on the democratic rights of constituents — and on the emergence of a new socialist left as a current in American politics. Sawant is the public face of Socialist Alternative, one of numerous small Marxist organizations in the United States. But defending her from corporate and right-wing attack is an issue that everyone on the left in the United States should support. Sawant has been elected...
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