For Immediate Release The January unemployment figures have been released. We believe that they will be slightly lower than before, and that the Obama Administration will be using this to say that their policies are working. However, there is a… Read More ›
There is a Middle Eastern state that repeatedly disobeys United Nations directives issued to it. This state has weapons of mass destruction and violates its neighbor’s borders on a routine basis. When it does, it commits ethnic cleansing and the… Read More ›
Post War Chaos The social and political upheaval that accompanied the end of World War I fused the various attitudes (elitism, racism, irrationalism, anti-modernism) that characterized the radical right of the early years of the century into a cohesive political… Read More ›
In light of the recent unrest in Albania, we release this analysis of the events in Albania in 1997 and the forces leading up to that revolution for the reader’s benefit. For the recent events, click here for an article… Read More ›
Although it is common to hear it in public discourse, particularly in regards to television and radio, the truth is that the concept of “reverse-racism” or “reverse discrimination” is at best a bogeyman erected by the corporate media and at… Read More ›
MLK Day: A Dream Lost From 01/10 Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all… Read More ›
The North African countries of Tunisia and Algeria have seen widespread worker uprisings, riots and clashes between police and protesters for the past three weeks in reaction to rising cost of living, skyrocketing unemployment and poor living conditions. The mass… Read More ›
Hamma Hammami, spokesman for the illegal Tunisian Workers Communist Party. [Translated from Arabic] [Postscript – Hammami has been released from prison after Ben Ali fled the country due to continuing protests. The struggle in Tunisia continues.] The police arrested… Read More ›
Allan G. Johnson’s book Privilege, Power, and Difference is a useful tool for understanding how systems of privilege work in contemporary capitalism. In a frank and accessible manner, he lays bare a framework for understanding how power relations and comparative… Read More ›
With the killing of the DREAM Act, states are now moving to implement similar laws to those in Arizona, signifying a reactionary swing to the right which threatens the lives and livelihoods of many Hispanic, Latino and Amerindian workers. Immigrant… Read More ›
Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) is yet another first-person shooter fetishizing imperialist war and allowing children to be their own one-man death-squads in a virtual world. America’s youth will be tossing grenades, firing automatic weapons, slitting throats and even… Read More ›
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act, was first introduced in 2003. Since that time, there have been countless marches, petitions and sit-ins in an attempt to get Congress to pass it. The… Read More ›
[Update Jan. 15, 2011: “The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE) was born in August, 1964 in rebellion against the revisionist leadership of the Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE) and its endorsement of the then Soviet-line of peaceful transition to… Read More ›
On Dec. 13th, President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, a law that, according to the White House press release on the subject, “authorizes funding for federal school meal and child nutrition programs and increases access to… Read More ›
Sign the Statement! A Moment for Movement-Building: Statement of Solidarity with Georgia Prisoner Strike On December 9, 2010, thousands of prisoners in at least six Georgia state prisons initiated the largest prisoner strike in U.S. history, uniting across racial boundaries… Read More ›
