third party

Turn left at the next intersection: Why the US needs a sustainable third party

The past few months of student protests against Israel's war on Gaza, and the way they were suppressed by the authorities and vilified as "violent" and terror-related even by supposedly left-leaning, progressive political leaders, revealed an important truth: the United States desperately needs a viable, left-to-centre-left third party committed to democracy. The issue is no longer limited to Republicans and their open support of Nazism. The response of President Joe Biden and other top Democrats to the student protests demonstrated that even the party that claims to represent the left in America is now trending right and has an unmistakable anti-democratic bent.