The working class must see itself as the leader representing the interests of the overwhelming majority.
Submitted by the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Club, New York City We are living in a time when the ultra-right is spending big bucks for political purposes and to elevate their favorite candidates in elections. The Republicans, spurred on by the Tea Party, the Koch brothers, Wall Street, Karl Rove, et al, are trying their best to suppress the vote, stop increases in the minimum wage, kill unions, cut public school...
Carol Widom addresses young Comrades at the CPUSA Marxist school
Earlier this year tea party right-wing extremists illuminated who their enemies were.Public employees topped the list,closely followed by those who survive through so-called 'entitlement programs'. Simply put, the tea party extremists were trying to convince the American public that the reason the country is broke is because poor people have all the money. In the last few weeks however a few new demons have emerged in the extreme right's pantheon...
Frederick Engels' "The Revolutionary Act: Military Insurrection or Political and Economic Action?," his last introduction to Marx's Class Struggles in France: 1848 to 1850, written in 1895 just before his death is excerpted here. At the time the February revolution began, in so far as our conception of the conditions and the course of revolutionary movements are concerned, we were all subject to the prevailing historic experience, notably that...
Contact the White House today and demand clemency for Peltier.
As in Georgia, the key is voter registration, organization, and mobilization.
Over the course of three nights last week Americans had a chance to see and hear the Republicans in Convention assembled. What was their message? Simply put it was to strengthen the 1% at the expense of the 99%. The Republicans find it perfectly appropriate for those who are not in need to make demands of those who are struggling. In the warped world of Mitt Romney and the GOP...
History was made and lessons were learned during this month. On the positive side, the fight for equality was advanced when the President added the weight of his opinion and office to the debate over same sex marriage. On the negative side the reactionary forces of finance-capital used the recall election in Wisconsin as a test case for their strategy of seizing the democratic process on behalf of the 1%....
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