Month: August 2019

In the U.S.

How they made Baltimore poor

August 3, 2019 Stephen Millies
Trump’s repeated attacks against Baltimore and Maryland congressperson Elijah Cummings have the smell of fascism. Describing the Black-majority city of Baltimore as a “very dangerous & filthy place,” the White House bigot also tweeted that […]
Capitalism and Marxism

Trump tariffs clash with globalized capitalist production

August 2, 2019 Fred Goldstein
The Trump administration is caught between its “America First” super-imperialist, great power chauvinist politics on the one hand, and the capitalist world division of labor on the other hand.  At every turn the contradiction between […]
1619

From the Terrible Transformation to the Creation of the Negro: A Black Socialist Analysis of the First Century of Slavery in North America

August 1, 2019 Matsemela Odom
In Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, the late popular historian Lerone Bennett refers to the African captives who arrived in Jamestown in 1619 as immigrants. “An estimated million of these slaves found […]
Palestine

Solidarity with Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Lebanon

August 1, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
A rally outside the Lebanese Mission to the United Nations in New York City on July 30 protested the treatment of Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Demonstrations were also held a few days before […]
Im/migrants and refugees

Shouts of ‘Abolish ICE!’ confront California ICE director

August 1, 2019 Scott Scheffer
The Long Beach, Calif., home of Thomas Giles, acting regional director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was the site of a taco truck, a terrific mariachi band and protesters who were there to call […]