Elections

Colombia: An Ethical Revolution (With A Grassroots Focus)

June 3, 2026 David Escobar, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Colombia, Elections, Latin America, Left Politics

Colombia is approaching the most important election on the continent—and possibly on the planet. Not because Bogotá will decide merely the administrative fate of a peripheral state, but because something far more profound is at stake in Colombia: the possibility that Latin America will continue and deepen the historic rupture that began with Gustavo Petro’s government in the face of the old order of the armed oligarchic estate as a form of government. While Europe is consumed by its liberal exhaustion and the United States is once again flirting with mass fascism, the Latin American continent is once again becoming the decisive laboratory of global politics.

AIPAC ‘Hides’ Support For Democratic Candidates

May 31, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! AIPAC, Congress, Democrats, Elections, Transparency

The pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has begun hiding its involvement in funding political campaigns for candidates running for public office in the US, as support for Israel becomes increasingly toxic among Democratic voters, Haaretz reported on 31 May. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has traditionally boasted of its success in helping elect candidates for Congress and the Senate who are committed to supporting Israel, including voting to provide it billions in US military aid each year. However, as Israel continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and wage war on Lebanon and Iran, US voters are beginning to view Israel and its lobby in the US in an increasingly negative light.

The Similar Praxis Of Jim Crow And Lord Voldemort

May 15, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Elections, Redistricting, Systemic Racism, Tennessee

The current Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has left no doubt about its approach to representative democracy in the United States. Last month, in its Louisiana v. Callais decision, the high court ruled that a second, majority Black congressional district drawn in Louisiana in 2024 was unconstitutional and relied too heavily on race as part of its composition. The state, where Black people account for approximately 33% of its population, will now contain only one majority Black congressional district. The overarching decision vastly weakens the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) and updates the legal test for determining if Section 2, which prohibits voting discrimination on the basis of race, of the act has been violated.

The Elections That Turned Climate Into A Defining Political Fault Line

May 12, 2026 Rupert Read, DeSmog. Educate! Analysis, climate crisis, Elections, Green party, Politics and Policy, United Kingdom (UK)

Last week’s elections may come to be seen as the moment Britain’s two-party system finally disintegrated. Not because Labour and the Conservatives disappeared overnight, but because the old assumption – that British politics naturally swings between two dominant parties – suddenly looks outdated. These elections revealed something deeper than a midterm protest vote. Reform UK topped the projected national vote share. The Greens surged into second place in several areas, expanded their councillor base dramatically, and entered the Welsh Senedd for the first time.

Did Scotus Just Do Us A Favor By Elucidating The Lies Of ‘America?’

May 8, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Black Liberation, Elections, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act

While writing this piece, I could already hear the reactionaries - many of them Black and subscribers to the Black MISleadership, Petty Bourgeois Class newsletter, many still refusing to emancipate themselves from the Democrat Party plantation and many who act as willing vanguards and public advocates for it - castigating a position that questions the larger futility of Black people voting in the United States as it pertains to the larger question of our collective liberation from the domestic colonialism/imperialism imposed on us by the grander dictatorship and tyranny of racial capitalism.

Kerala’s Red Star Still Shines

May 8, 2026 Nitheesh Narayanan and Vijay Prashad, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Communism, Elections, India, Kerala

Every five years, the electorate in Kerala goes to the polls to elect a new state government. One of twenty-eight states in India, Kerala has a population of 35 million and has been governed by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) for the past decade. On May 4, the Election Commission of India announced that the LDF won only 35 seats of the 140 for the legislature and that the LDF’s longtime adversary, the United Democratic Front (UDF), won the election with 102 seats. It would have been a historic victory had the LDF prevailed because no front has won three consecutive elections in Kerala – a state with a highly educated and politically divided population.

Democracy Was Never Designed To Work; Something Better Is Emerging

May 6, 2026 Jeremy Lent, Resilience. Strategize! Deliberative Democracy, Democracy, Elections, Sortition

Something is breaking apart in the democratic world beyond the usual scandals of corruption or periodic rise of demagogues. We are witnessing a legitimacy crisis that goes all the way down to the foundations. Across Europe and North America, citizens no longer believe their governments represent them. Poll after poll shows collapsing trust in democratic institutions. Voters who feel ignored — or actively betrayed — by political elites are increasingly willing to support authoritarian leaders who promise to “break the system,” even at the cost of basic civil liberties. In a deeply troubling sense, their disillusionment is justified.

Political Snobbery Delays Black Liberation

April 29, 2026 Mark P. Fancher, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Black Liberation, Black misleadership, Democratic Party, Elections, Political Education

As the world has grown weary of the morally bankrupt and criminally insane shenanigans of the Trump administration, Democratic Party leaders have struggled to contain their glee. They smell blood in the water, and they lick their chops in anticipation of a proverbial “blue wave” of victories in the upcoming mid-term elections. While the Democrats have felt a sense of euphoria as they have watched millions of people pour into the streets during “No Kings” protests, Party leaders most certainly have been alarmed by the overwhelming whiteness of the crowds.

Anti-Muslim Far-Right Leader Viktor Orban Defeated In Landmark Election

April 13, 2026 Middle East Monitor. Educate! Elections, Europe, Far Right Politics, Hungary, Israel, Viktor Orban

Israel has suffered a major political setback in Europe after Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, conceded defeat in a landmark election that ended his 16-year rule and handed a crushing victory to the opposition Tisza party led by Péter Magyar. Tisza won 138 of 199 parliamentary seats, giving it a two-thirds majority and the power to begin dismantling much of Orbán’s entrenched political system. Orbán’s defeat followed years of economic stagnation, corruption scandals and growing public anger at his authoritarian style of government.

France’s Communists Hold Back the Far Right, For Now

March 28, 2026 Phineas Rueckert, Portside. Strategize! Communist Party, Elections, Far Right Politics, France, Public Services

The setting of Émile Zola’s 1885 novel, Germinal, is nothing if not bleak. In the northern French mining settlement where the book takes place, the roads were “black like mourning trim,” the village “dead . . . draped in its shroud.” “The wide streets, divided into small terraced gardens, remained deserted between four large uniform buildings,” Zola writes. It’s a kind of social realism that has long shaped the collective idea of what the old industrial north is like. Visiting Méricourt, one of the many former mining villages that dot northern France, that image feels far from present reality.

March 22 Elections And Lessons From Bolivia

March 21, 2026 Cindy Forster, Resumen English. Educate! Bolivia, Elections, Indigenous Peoples, Lawfare, Neoliberalism

Bolivia’s capitalist elites are losing their grip this week in their efforts to crush socialist candidates in “sub-national” elections to be held on March 20. Socialists, most of them Indigenous and campesino, have been elected in assemblies to run as candidates at all levels of local government. The rightwing is terrified of competing with the poor in elections, and to avoid that eventuality, it is illegitimately disqualifying leftist candidates and their parties. The twentieth-century oligarchy won the presidency last November in exactly this fashion, via illicit court rulings.

Venezuela: When The Opposition Calls For ‘Free’ And ‘Fair’ Elections, What Do They Mean?

March 19, 2026 Yader Lanuza, Popular Resistance. Strategize! Bolivarian Process, Democracy, Elections, Neoliberalism, Participatory Democracy, Socialism, Venezuela

Since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, the US has attacked the Bolivarian Revolution in multiple ways, including through propaganda that categorize it as “authoritarian,” “unfree,” and “undemocratic.” This US propaganda assault is intended to dictate what should be done in Venezuela, including a return to “democracy,” with “free” and “fair” elections. Emboldened by the US military attack on Jan. 3rd, and relying on the US propaganda assault, the Venezuelan opposition has launched an aggressive move to seize control of the state by seeking concessions from the Bolivarian government to purportedly ensure “democracy” through “free” and “fair” elections that guarantees “equal” political participation for all political parties. But what does the opposition mean by “equality,” “fairness,” and “democracy”?

Why Labor Needs A Declaration Of Political Independence

February 19, 2026 Les Leopold, Scheer Post. Educate! Elections, Independent Politics, Labor Movement, Unions

It’s not a secret: About 45 percent of labor union members voted for Trump in 2024. In unions with fewer minority workers the percentage was substantially higher. More importantly, most union members no longer identify with the Democratic Party. In fact, they are downright hostile to it. In our YouGov poll of 3,000 voters in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, 70 percent held negative views of the Democrats. Why so much hostility? Very few respondents said anything about wokeness or immigration. Much of the bitterness was related to the Democrats failing to live up to their promises and losing touch with everyday people.

Costa Rica Deepens Alignment With US-Backed Right-Wing Forces

February 9, 2026 Jimmy Zúñiga Wallace, Geopolitical Economy. Educate! Costa Rica, Elections, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Right wing politics, US Imperialism

Costa Rica held elections on February 1, 2026, and right-wing presidential candidate Laura Fernández Delgado won decisively, exceeding the 40% threshold required to avoid a runoff. Fernández’s campaign was run almost entirely on one promise: continuing what incumbent President Rodrigo Chaves started back in 2022. Just a few days after the electoral authorities declared her the winner, Chaves appointed Fernández as his new minister of the presidency, reinforcing the idea that the newly elected government will be a continuation of the previous one.

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