Kamala Harris needs to mobilise people around class not race | Dustin Guastella and Bhaskar Sunkara

If liberals insist workers should focus more on race than shared class interests, they give right wing ammo for their culture war

How things can change in a matter of weeks. In early July, populism seemed to rule the day in American politics.

Donald Trump selected JD Vance, a figure who's been trying on producerist rhetoric in recent years, as his pick for vice-president and invited the Teamsters president, Sean O'Brien, to speak at the Republican national convention. Joe Biden, facing a flagging campaign and internal pressure to step down, met with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to lay out a pro-worker agenda for a potential new term.