Author: Norman Solomon

     Before the end of his first term, President Franklin Roosevelt denounced "the economic royalists." He said: "They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred."     Today, we need much more willingness to push back against the Republican Party's ideologues and the forces they represent. We need principled backbones in…

Norman Solomon appeared on KPFA Radio's "Sunday Show" to discuss the election results and prospects for progressive change. To listen to that one-hour interview, click here and begin at 1:02 (halfway through the two-hour program).

by Norman Solomon       Now what?      We need to build a grassroots progressive movement — wide, deep and strong enough to fight the right and challenge the corporate center of the Democratic Party.      The stakes are too high and crises too extreme to accept “moderate” accommodation to unending war, regressive taxation, massive unemployment,…

By Norman Solomon On Sunday, when the New York Times put a "tossup" label on three dozen House races with Democrats running for re-election, there were very few genuine progressives involved. In fact, just three of the lawmakers on the list are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. And only one of them is a…

     Primaries offer opportunities. General elections bring imperatives — to defeat right-wing forces — and that's certainly true this time around.      The last two years of undue efforts to accommodate Republican leaders have ended up boosting — not countering — their momentum. My recent article Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine makes a case…