Some Victories in the Recent US Mid-Term Elections

According to cable-news, talk-radio, and almost all mainstream news outlets, the US 2014 Mid-Term Elections were a referendum on Obama's "left" politics and a popular push to the right.  So why is the radical left not losing sleep over this electoral calamity?

Well, as with most things major news outlets tell you, it isn't really true.  Obama and the Democrats have no soft spot in our hearts being a pro-war and pro-corporation.  The electoral outcome of Republicans over Democrats or vice-versa amounts to a sibling rivalry between two incredibly similar bourgeois parties.

Some Big Victories for the Working Class and Poor

Ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage passed statewide in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, and city wide in San Francisco and Oakland.  Non-binding initiatives to increase the minimum wage passed in the state of Illinois and many Wisconsin counties.

On that same note, voters in Oregon and Washington DC chose to legalize marijuana, a blow to the decades long, racist drug war.

Some Material on Leftist Perspectives of ISIS

Meanwhile a major barrier to the spread of the ISIS plague to Lebanon is Hezbollah, a hated enemy of the US and its Israeli ally. And to complicate the situation further, the US and Iran now share a justified concern about the rise of the Islamic State, as do others in this highly conflicted region. -- Noam Chomsky, ISIS and Our Times

So ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIL and IS) has been capturing headlines as it continues to wage its reactionary, islamo-fascist war.  Now that radical left groups in the region are making great strides in fighting ISIS, and now that these groups might be getting help from NATO, another reactionary force that could eliminate the leftist groups as well, it seems a great time to understand the situation and figure out how we support the fight against both islamo-fascists and imperialists.

The radical left PKK anti-ISIS fighters.

Here are a few radical leftist videos and articles on ISIS that might interest the curious:

• Video:  Professor Chomsky on ISIS
• Article:  Kurdish Anarchist Join Fight Against ISIS
• Article:  Declaration from the Communists on Kobane, IS, and Imperialism
• Article: These Remarkable Women Are Fighting ISIS. It’s Time You Know Who They Are