“I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.” -- Eugene V. Debs

For leftists, an electoral campaign like Nader/Camejo 2004 is a means, not an end in itself. Use the campaign as an occasion that allows us to go out and discover our allies who have not met us -- and one another -- yet.

The Democrats claim that they are campaigning for "Anybody But Bush." That is either a lie or a bad faith. Their creed is, in truth, Anybody But Nader.

Walt Contreras Sheasby, an outstanding Red/Green activist and theorist, died. His life was tragically cut short by the West Nile virus. Here is a bibliography of recent works (both theoretical inquiries and occasional polemics) by Walt. Read them and learn from him.

Ralph Nader's Ohio supporters on Wednesday turned in petitions with 14,473 signatures to Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, nearly three times the 5,000 signatures needed to get Nader on the state's Nov. 2 presidential ballot as an independent.

Manning Marable, author of 'How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America', discusses the effects of neoliberal capitalism on communities of color describing the development of a New Racial Domain. Marable contrasts the movement against neoliberal capital in the global South with that in the United States, calling for change.

$2.2 billion is spent every day on killing. The five largest arms producers--US, UK, Russia, China, France--also have veto on United Nations Security Council. The programs of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organization are also responsible for horrible crimes around the world. Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano argues that the rest of us need to get together.

Elections are due soon in the United States, Afghanistan, Iraq and Indonesia. Democracy, the creation of the Greeks, remains the least bad political system. But it has to work properly: it must remain accountable to ordinary people and not suborn power. Portuguese novelist and Nobel prize winner Jose Saramago comments.