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Teacher, union member, baseball enthusiast, communist.

• The Only Animals are Trump, ICE, and Deporting Moderates

  By J. Palameda on May 21, 2018

  

  At a meeting of Republican California lawmakers at the White House on Wednesday, May 16th, Donald Trump delivered his latest virulently racist and anti-immigrant statement, saying of immigrants crossing the southern border: “You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These… Read More ›

• After Spencer and Heimbach’s Failures, a Recommitment to Refusing all Platforms for Fascists

  By J. Palameda on March 30, 2018

  

  The last several weeks saw two major victories for the emerging anti-fascist forces in the United States. First, on March 5th, Richard Spencer’s talk at Michigan State University faced overwhelming opposition, with elements of the Traditionalist Worker’s Party being driven… Read More ›

• Net Neutrality and Capitalist Democracy

  By J. Palameda on January 10, 2018

  

  The repeal of net neutrality on Thursday, December 14th, allowing corporations to speed up and slow down internet service and charge for access to any number of currently free services, revealed political allegiances across contemporary American society. The far right… Read More ›

• Why Marxism-Leninism in the 21st Century United States?

  By J. Palameda on October 30, 2017

  

  The heightening of the ecological, economic, and social crises of capitalism during the summer of 2017 from Charlottesville to Houston cast a new urgency on the work of the rapidly consolidating left in the United States. As the left reawakens… Read More ›

• We Must Finish What They Started: Remove All Confederate Statues Now

  By J. Palameda on August 17, 2017

  

  By Jonathan Palameda In Durham, North Carolina on the afternoon of August 14th, 2017, a gathering of activists including elements from the Workers World Party climbed a statue greased by cops to impede climbing, tied a rope around the statue… Read More ›

• For an American Marxist-Leninist Anti-Fascism

  By J. Palameda on August 9, 2017

  

  At the 21st International Seminar on Problems of the Revolution in Latin America hosted by the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador in Quito, the American Party of Labor presented a paper on the issue of fascism as one of chief… Read More ›

• Mariela Castro on Combatting Homophobia and Transphobia in Communist Organizing

  By J. Palameda on July 3, 2017

  

  In 2013, I traveled to Cuba as a part of a study abroad program on the history of Cuban socialism in the context of economic reforms that allowed for limited free enterprise. The financial changes were certainly discernible on the… Read More ›