Guest Commentator

Carl Davidson

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Carl Davidson is a national committee member of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a Left Roots Compa and a member of Steel Valley DSA. He edits LeftLinks and founded the Online University of the Left, http://ouleft.org. He lives in Beaver County, Western PA, and is also a member of the United Steel Workers activist local for retirees. BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Bill Fletcher, Jr., is the executive editor of globalafricanworker.com, former president of TransAfrica Forum, and a lifetime trade unionist. He is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, and the author of “They’re Bankrupting Us” - And Twenty Other Myths about Unions and the novel The Man Who Fell From the Sky. He is also the co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, which examines the crisis of organized labor in the USA. Mr. Fletcher is also Co-editor of "Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral". Other Bill Fletcher, Jr. writing can be found at billfletcherjr.com. Contact Mr. Fletcher and BC.

4 pieces

Guest Commentary

Post-Election Reckoning: New Hypotheses for the Road Ahead

By Carl Davidson Guest Commentator

Original national ancestry, from here or elsewhere, is not a ‘race.’ And the sooner we can get rid of this old order category in our thinking, the easier a more democratic class and national consciousness can emerge

Hypothesis No. 1. One cannot understand this election unless one begins with a recognition of voter suppression: Since 2008, the Republican strategy has increasingly focused on…

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Remembering Tom Hayden

By Carl Davidson Guest Commentator

We had to be engaged, body and soul, willing to be, as Tom was, on the receiving end of a billy club in Mississippi or the insides of a Georgia jail. He inspired me and many others to go to these battlegrounds ourselves and ‘put our bodies on the line.’

I got the news as soon as I awoke Monday. Even though I knew he was seriously ill, it still came as a shock. It seemed…

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With a Few Wobbles Bernie wins 1st Dem Pres Debate

By Carl Davidson Guest Commentator

Where Bernie showed his strength was in keeping everyone focused on the fight against Bankster-imposed austerity at home and being dragged into new wars abroad.

INSTANT ANALYSIS: MY TWO CENTS. Overall, Bernie Sanders won, but not without a few wobbles, and the GOP was the big loser. Hillary retained her front-runner…

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The 2012 U.S. Elections and the Future of the Left – By Bill Fletcher, Jr. – BC Editorial Board – and

By Carl Davidson Guest Commentator

In the lead up to the 2012 elections the Left was badly divided over how to respond. The 2012 elections may prove to have been a watershed in several different respects. Despite the efforts by the political Right to suppress the Democratic electorate, something very strange happened: voters, angered by the attacks on their rights,…

In the lead up to the 2012 elections the Left was badly divided over how to respond. The 2012 elections may prove to have been a…

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