US: the Debut of Our Revolution – Great Potential … But

Written on August 27th, 2016 in politics Comments Off

Published on ZNet, by Norman Solomon, Aug 25, 2016.

While Bernie Sanders was doing a brilliant job of ripping into the Trans-Pacific Partnership during the livestreamed launch of the Our Revolution organization on Wednesday night, CNN was airing a phone interview with Hillary Clinton and MSNBC was interviewing Donald Trump’s campaign manager.

That sums up the contrast between the enduring value of the Bernie campaign and the corporate media’s fixation on the political establishment. Fortunately, Our Revolution won’t depend on mainline media. That said, the group’s debut foreshadowed not only great potential but also real pitfalls.

Even the best election campaigns aren’t really (political) movements. Ideally, campaigns strengthen movements and vice versa. As Bernie has often pointed out, essential changes don’t come from Congress simply because of who has been elected; those changes depend on strong grassroots pressure for the long haul … //

… As the petition page noted, Dr. King “explicitly and emphatically linked the issues of economic injustice at home with war abroad.” In a society desperately needing “adequate funds for programs of economic equity and social justice,” the challenge remains clear: “Overcoming militarism is just as vital as overcoming oligarchy. We won’t be able to do one without the other.”

If Bernie and Our Revolution continue to evade the present-day realities of “the madness of militarism,” their political agenda will be significantly more limited than what our revolution requires for a truly progressive future.

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(Norman Solomon, national coordinator of the Bernie Delegates Network, is co-founder of the online activist group Roots. His books include War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. He is the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy);

(my comment: it is not only Bernie, it’s the American people, it’s we the 99,9% – yes, even if we are seduced, misled, roughed, mismanaged by Big-Media and all the Mafia – yes, we all are responsible for our knowledge about political realities and thus for related actions – Heidi).

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Interview, Part 2: Labor’s New Sources of Leverage, on Labor Notes, by Chris Brooks and Kim Moody, Aug 12, 2016;

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