International Socialists

In the United States, the Democratic party (and its big business backers) is choosing whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama will get the chance to run for president. After two disastrous terms under George Bush, a Democrat presidency looks increasingly likely. In New Zealand we are also facing an election “choice” between the openly pro-business National Party, which is increasingly lurching right, with law and order proposals (sending young offenders to boot camp) that are designed only to push an already overloaded prison system into chaos and a Labour Party that unleashed anti-terror police on children and old people in the Ureweras.