@markhburton@mstdn.social"Looking back, it seems clear that Podemos never really wanted to be a party, let alone a better kind of party. From the beginning, its leaders believed that parties were outdated, and that social movements were the true engine of political transformation."
Lilith Verstrynge - former organisational secretary of #Podemos
Farewell to Podemos • Articles • EQUATOR
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe American Democratic Party, and the concept of "Democratic Socialism" within the US, comes largely from an authoritarian political tradition where the state offers services in exchange for the population allowing elites to continue parasitize the system. Then it is critical for Liberals to consume and destroy popular mutual aid, because real mutual aid undermines their carrot.
Democrats tend to imagine that anarchists want to destroy "all the good things" that governments do. The reality is that we want to build those good things ourselves so that we can reject the offer of those same good things, less well managed, with all the bad things attached.
Anarchists want to build pro-social systems (what if we didn't *need* snap, but just made sure everyone was fed?) while eliminating anti-social ones (do we really *need* to kidnap children, or could we just kind of stop doing that?).
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSomeone has encouraged me to engage in party politics by joining a political party. However, I oppose it, because political parties often represent interests that conflict with my own values and belief system.
Rather than aligning myself with parties that promote agendas incompatible with my views, I want to organiz my local community, prioritizing grassroots involvement and direct democratic participation over representative party politics.
As a syndicalist, I firmly believe tha…
@cdarwin@c.im‘Call a Republican’: Viral phone booth connects Calif. liberals, conservative Texans
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-22/california-texas-phone-booths-experiment-political-divide
@steve@s.yelvington.comGeorge's corrupt Republican party finally gets its way and kills the election interference case against Donald Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/georgia-prosecutor-drops-trump-election-interference-case
@pre@boing.worldNice to see a UK party leader demonstrate some actual compassion and care this Christmas. I'm so fed up with politicians pedaling hate and division trying to pander to terrible racism and xenophobia, trying to pick up the votes of the hateful.
This is what political leadership really is. Not following the right wing media hatred but countering it.
Zack Polanski's Christmas message is less than five minutes.
#green #christmas
@jaygooby@mastodon.social
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPro-Russian group claims hits on Danish party websites as voters head to polls https://therecord.media/denmark-election-political-government-websites-ddos-incidents
@timbray@cosocial.caI joined the BC Green party because there's no other option around here if you care about the earth. My first ever political convention!
@…
#bcgreen #GreenParty
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotQuite a phenomenal campaign ad from the Greens down in England. Strong. I firmly believe that any political party not running this same message will fail.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at The Amargi, a new nonprofit digital outlet based in Germany covering Kurdish news in English and trying to avoid favoring any specific political party (Seyma Bayram/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/amargi-kurdish
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @markhburton@mstdn.socialYes, given the chaos, Your Party supporters should now cut their losses and join the Green Party (E&W).
"This [poll] makes the Green Party the primary opposition party to the neo-fascist Reform UK – and is gaining ground on the static Farage outfit."
Green Party leapfrogs Labour, Tories — the old order is crumbling
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThis was the worst Bulgarian president since 1989. He actively tried to divide the people by talking utter bullsh!t and implying we would be better off with Mother Russia. And now, he's seeking real power by getting ready to participate as a leader of his "new political party" in the upcoming Parliament elections. None of our other presidents has been so blatantly basic in their undermining words.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev to Submit His Resignation on January 20
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgJust in case anyone is unhappy with their party of choice this morning
How to update or change your voter registration | USAGov https://www.usa.gov/change-voter-registration
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialThis is a subtweet...
People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
#anarchy #capitalism
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.social‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has outlined her political philosophy in this book whose first edition appeared last year. She argues that there is a distinctive Green political philosophy, distinct from but sharing many characteristics with…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump -- openly fearful that a Congress controlled by Democrats could investigate him, impeach him and stymie his agenda
-- is using every tool he can find to try to influence the 2026 midterm elections
-- and, if his party loses, sow doubt in their validity.
Many of these endeavors go far beyond typical political persuasion,
challenging long-established democratic norms.
They include unprecedented demands that Republican state lawmakers redraw congressional di…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itChuck Schumer remains the worst of the Democratic Party. Beholden to special interests, refusing to retire despite relying on a political playbook from former generations, and doing his best to knee-cap progressives while hoping for "bipartisanship" from Rs.
Remember when Schumer endorsed Mamdani? Yeah, neither do I, because he fucking didn't. Even Jeffries (waiting until less than 2 weeks before the election) finally endorsed the D Mayoral candidate. Not Schumer, tho!
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAndrew Cuomo fights for his political life and his version of the Democratic Party (Brian Mann/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5594845/andrew-cuomo-nyc-mayor-race-zohran-mamdani
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p33#a251103p33
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI consider myself an anarcho‑syndicalist, and to stay true to that, I must be honest with myself and with others. I reject political parties and reformist trade unions because I believe real emancipation cannot come from institutions built on hierarchy or compromise. When someone joins a union that ties itself to a political party or to representative institutions, I no longer feel that we share the same basic ground. For me, any step into party politics, parliamentary games, or electoral st…
@gwire@mastodon.socialIf you've looked at recent US government websites, and wondered why you don't see UK government sites covered with photos of British cabinet members, it's not entirely a design choice.
Central government resources aren't allowed to be used to promote party political content - and for websites that can include raising the public profile of politicians.
There is, in essence, a civil servant who can reject website update requests made by the Prime Minister if they fe…
@cdarwin@c.imMillions of Americans have a huge financial stake in the next few weeks of Senate negotiations over the Affordable Care Act's enhanced tax credits.
Absent a deal, health care coverage costs could double next year for people who rely on ACA exchange plans.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/1…
@pre@boing.worldRobert Jenrick has been sacked as shadow minister on account of the shadow leader thinking he's thinking of defecting.
Presumably this encourages him to defect really? Even if he wasn't planning to leave, why stay around in a party that can't win and is sacking people on paranoid presumptions that they will leave?
Seems like all the rats at the Conservative party are jumping ship to Reform. People will be voting Reform at the next election and literally getting the exact same ministers as when they voted Conservative at the last one.
This isn't like the usual "Vote X, get Y", where the broken electoral system lets the least popular party in because the popular political wing is divided. This is literally "Vote reform, Reform win, but you get the exact people who were standing as Conservative last time"
Is this really good for Reform? It's voters are trying to avoid voting Tory, surely? Adding all the old tory ministers to their ranks has to hurt rather than help?
#ukpol #defection #reform #conservatives
@markhburton@mstdn.social @cdarwin@c.im"Voters are disgusted by what they’re seeing from the right;
-- a political movement so detached from basic humanity that they think hunger, poverty, and suffering are punchlines,"
Michael Cohen wrote.
https://www.rawstory.com/michael-cohen-2674257947/
@cdarwin@c.imFor a decade, Donald Trump’s rallies were intertwined with his political identity.
His big crowds were how he first got the media and the Republican Party to take him seriously,
and they provided real-time feedback.
Those who followed him closely could watch his positions take shape from one rally to the next
—an offhand comment that got a strong reaction would become a talking point at the next rally,
and then a core part of his pitch.
And he took notic…
@cdarwin@c.im-- Jared Sullivan:
I scoop ice cream to pay my bills while running for the United States Senate.
That should not be rare.
In a country divided on almost everything, one view cuts across party lines:
working-class Americans are fed up with a political system that does not understand their lives.
They are right. Today, fewer than three percent of members of Congress come from the manual labor and service jobs that most Americans work,
a disparity documente…
