Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Wisconsin supports their local Communist
Speaking to Alexander Norton, WAHSAYAH WHITEBIRD talks about the opportunities and challenges in being the only explicitly Communist elected official in the English-speaking world
The city council member in rural Wisconsin is the only openly Communist elected official in the English-speaking world
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FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
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WAHSAYAH WHITEBIRD’s intro on his facebook profile reads “Yes, I am the local Communist. If you want to add me, cool. Just don’t expect me to be a Liberal.”
Then rather surprisingly this is followed by “City Council Member at Ashland, Wisconsin.”
In May Whitebird was elected in the rural community where he works in the town deli, openly a member of none other than the Communist Party USA, now in its hundredth year.
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