Month: February 2020

Capitalism and Marxism

Marxism and the ideological crisis: The socialist perspective and the collapse of the USSR

February 13, 2020 Fred Goldstein
The following is excerpted from a document written by Fred Goldstein in April 2006. The discussion of the socialist perspective is as relevant today  as when it was written. Introduction  The destiny of the working […]
Political Prisoners

Chuck Africa goes home

February 13, 2020 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For over 40 years, Chuck Sims Africa, member of the famed MOVE 9, veteran of the MOVE confrontation of Aug. 8, 1978, has been imprisoned in state joints across Pennsylvania, serving what is arguably an […]
Events

#SupportPalestineInDC2020

February 13, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Events

Baltimore Caravan to Al-Awda Rally to Support Palestine & Protest AIPAC March 1

February 13, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST 2011 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218 Catch a ride or help caravan to D.C. for Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition National […]
Venezuela

Guaido is back in Venezuela, now what?

February 12, 2020 Marco Teruggi
Opposition leader Juan Guaido is back in Venezuela after a three-week international tour that took him to Colombia, Europe and the United States. His return was without force and without any conclusive announcements. What’s next now […]
In the U.S.

How to yellow-cake a tragedy: the NY Times spreads the virus of hatred, again

February 12, 2020 K.J. Noh
“In the end, the plague touched us all…it was not confined….breeding in a compost of greed and uselessness and murder…promising life and delivering death…[serving] as furnished rooms for ideology.” —Pete Hamill, liner notes to Blood […]
Fight racism

NY Gov. Cuomo’s war on the poor

February 12, 2020 Stephen Millies
People are protesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s vicious campaign against folks who can’t pay New York City’s $2.75 subway fare. Over a thousand people gathered at Grand Central Terminal on Jan. 31 and marched […]
Palestine

PFLP mourns lifelong internationalist fighter for Palestine, comrade Richard Reilly

February 12, 2020 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mourns the internationalist comrade, Richard Reilly, one of the most consistent, committed defenders of the Palestinian cause. In the name of our General Secretary, Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, […]
In the U.S.

The real State of the Union

February 12, 2020 Greg Butterfield
Let’s talk about the State of the Union. No, not Trump’s speech. Don’t worry, I’ll get to that shortly. I’m talking about the real deal: the political reality facing poor and working people living in […]
Donbass

Free Benes Ayo! Donbass defender detained, threatened with extradition by Interpol

February 12, 2020 Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic
  On February 11, Benes Ayo, a member of the Donetsk City Committee of the Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic, was detained in the village of Yarensk in the Arkhangelsk Region. He came […]