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On Wisconsin! Videostream on Walker recall campaign

Join us Tuesday, December 20, for a live interview on the historic Wisconsin recall campaign of Gov. Scott Walker and its implications for turning back the rightwing anti-labor assault and winning in the 2012 elections.

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CPUSA teleconference: 2011 elections victories set stage for struggles ahead

Voters went to the polls Nov. 8 and decisively repudiated Republican Tea Party extremist assaults on collective bargaining, immigration reform, reproductive rights, gay and lesbian rights and right to vote in several states. 

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Podcast: Road to 2012

The 2012 elections may be 18 months away but now is the time to organize for a people's victory. PoliticalAffairs.net interviews Joelle Fishman, CPUSA political action director, on the 2012 elections and what's at stake. Below is part 1. (Listen to the second part of this *interview here*.)

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Communist Party shows new growth: Can it be sustained?

NEW YORK - The First Annual Communist Party USA National Conference, held April 16-17, reflected a potential new turning point for the CPUSA and the allied Young Communist League (YCL), its relationship to the working class and key social forces and movements and its growth in size and influence. (Article continues after slideshow.)

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Koch brothers play self-serving role in Wisconsin battle

Multi-billionaire corporate magnates Charles and David Koch, major behind-the-scenes players in the dispute between Wisconsin public employees and Republican Gov. Scott Walker, stand to gain more than meets the eye from this epic battle.

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Public workers in the bull’s-eye

When I was in basic training in the Army, we learned all about the bull's-eye. They marched us to the firing range with our M-16 rifles, and taught us that the bull's-eye was the heart of the target. If you hit the outer rings of the target, you might only wound your enemy. But if you hit the bull's-eye you bring your enemy down.

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Racism: its winners and losers

Two years into the Obama presidency it is fair to say that racist ideology is the main mobilizing discourse of right-wing extremism. In subtle and crude forms, it has become the main poison to draw white people into the theater of politics on the side of the most reactionary sections of corporate capital.

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Hope is stronger than hate

In their effort to win the Congress this year and the White House in 2012, the Republican Party and their tea party attack dogs are unashamedly promoting fear, racism, bigotry and red baiting. This has been the subtext of all of their rallies.

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