Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate

Book Overview

"A valuable contribution to our thinking about that controversial and difficult subject--the role of an opposition third party."--Howard Zinn "This is an invaluable sourcebook: rich in ideas.'"--Mike Davis Ralph Nader, Peter Camejo, David Cobb, Sharon Smith, Norman Solomon, and other Green Party members and allies ask: Can we break the two-party stranglehold on U.S. politics? and debate strategy for how to build a challenge to the Republicans and an increasingly corporate Democratic Party. Howie Hawkins is a Teamster and Green activist in Syracuse, New York.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931859302
• ISBN13: 9781931859301
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

All progressives should read these important debates

Howie Hawkins has done a huge service to all Green Party members, and everyone who would like to see an alternative to the two-party system in the U.S., by bringing together the best representatives of all sides of the strategic debates inside the Green Party. In 2004, the party fractured between two presidential tickets -- Ralph Nader, the party's 2000 candidate, who pledged to run a campaign urging votes in all states; and David Cobb, a long-time Green activist, who ran a "safe states" campaign urging votes for himself only where it would not harm the electoral efforts of the John Kerry campaign. This split revealed very different strategies and visions of the relationships between progressives and the Democratic Party, and what it will take to build a viable third party movement in the United States. This is the first book to collect all the major documents, articles, and statements of the main players in those debates, in one very readable and accessible volume. Together, they are essential reading for anyone who wants to challenge the stranglehold of the Democratic Party on the American Left, and is serious about figuring out how to do that.