I was invited by Tony Noel, organizer of the New Progressive Alliance, to sit on a steering committee with Cornell West, Jill Stein and three or four others almost two years ago to seek a candidate who would challenge Obama. The New Progressive Alliance at that time was seriously considering ...

If you're occasionally taken aback by the number of socialist, anti-capitalist and otherwise radical-left parties in the United States and worldwide, this interview may not fully satisfy you. However, if you are equally impressed with the thoughtfulness, critical-mindedness, and honesty of many members of such groups, this interview will impress ...

The American Citizen Party calls itself a "revolutionary" party. Its home page asks readers: "Would you participate in a revolution if you were assured that the end result would be more freedom and prosperity than you have ever experienced in your lifetime? Would you participate in a revolution if you ...

Dismissive of the Tea Party as an artificial creation of big corporations and Fox News, the ambitiously-named America's Third Party is part of a coalition of centrists and moderate progressives that includes the National Centrist Party and the slightly more progressive Modern Whig Party (which we'll interview very soon). ATP's promises are ...

The Boston Tea Party was formed in 2006 by former Libertarian Party members dissatisfied with the LP's "abdication of political responsibilities." "Americans deserve and desperately need a pro-freedom party," the BTP's founders stated, one "that forcefully advocates libertarian solutions to the issues of today". Among their objections to the mainstream ...

The Freedom Socialist Party is a socialist political party with a unique program of revolutionary socialist feminism. The party formed in 1966. The current National Secretary of the FSP is Doug Barnes. One potentially exciting aspect of the FSP's current electoral contemplation is the party's desire to run on a ...

Mark Hinkle is an American libertarian activist and businessman. He is the National Chairman of the United States Libertarian Party. He was the first party representative to respond to our questionnaire, and has the distinction of being the first interview we are publishing under the Context2012 banner. POLITICALCONTEXT.ORG: Is your party ...

The failure of President Obama and the Democrats to check the fiscally irresponsible and socially heartless behavior of House Republicans in the Debt Ceiling debacle, followed by Standard and Poor's erroneous but financially devastating downgrading of the U.S. credit rating, has put the Democratic Party in its most precarious position ...

Shared Media Cooperative and politicalcontext.org will presently launch Context 2012, a media project providing interviews with, debates among, and a constant stream of news about electoral political activity among independent and third party candidates in the United States, running from now until the general election in 2012. Strategies to confront the ...