In Chicago and New York the idea of “public wealth for public good” has led to calls for city-run grocery stores and fare-free transit. This challenges the belief that basic survival must be monetized. Can city government become a builder and provider – not to extract profit, but to deliver justice?
Trump’s vendetta against Chicago began in his first term, when its people repeatedly expressed their hatred for his policies with mass protests, actually forcing Trump to cancel his appearance at the UIC Forum. Now ICE raids schools as families drop off and pick up their children. Veterans for Peace called on Illinois Governor Pritzker to offer sanctuary if members of the National Guard refuse to go to Chicago.
From the Editors: This poem was submitted to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Katrina disaster and the people’s heroic struggle.
Searise
In a thousand years
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Fascistic ICE raids criminalize a section of the working class, turning us against each other instead of uniting against a government controlled by billionaires. As this drives up living expenses for everyone, public protests are forcing state and local officials to stand up against the federal government.
Among the 5 million Americans who hit the streets to oppose the Trump administration’s assaults on democracy, justice and morality, this 16 year old identifies what’s really underway
Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, a member of the tobacco planter class and a delegate to the rebel Continental Congress, wrote the Declaration of Independence...
By the League Basic Needs Electoral Committee
Outrage at ICE raids and deployment of the National Guard and Marines in LA has unleashed an explosion...
By Ethel Long-Scott (California based anti-poverty and women’s rights community organizer, social issues advocate, political campaign strategist, non-profit director and League strategist and builder)
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From the Editors of Rally-Agrupémonos, Voice of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Uncounted hundreds in Iran have been killed by bombs dropped...
Suppressing public dissent allows the ruling class to protect corporate power and the private property system from democratic opposition. Targeting pro-Palestinian protesters exemplifies this bipartisan assault. Republicans support the crackdown while Democrats refuse to defend speech that might upset powerful donors.
We must unite not just to defend free speech, but to build a world where human needs come before profit and Earth is protected not plundered. The battle for democracy is the battle for a new world.
ICE raids in LA right before Trump’s June 14 military parade and 79th birthday celebration help build fascism, by attacking immigrants today and then any of us demanding our basic needs tomorrow
By the League Basic Needs Electoral Committee
We stand at a historic juncture. Millions of Americans are protesting across the nation every week against the...
On April 5, five million Americans protested MAGA attacks on democracy and social services. Technofascism is dictatorship for the era of AI. Even fascist Steve Bannon called Musk’s DOGE “a tech CEO takeover of a government”.
Some cities declare it illegal to set up communities of the homeless, even threatening to arrest those who reject city-run shelters. The groups fighting Democratic mayors over this are as anti-fascist as those protesting the actions of Trump and Musk.
The Attack on Immigrants and All of Us … Fascistic ICE raids criminalize a section of the working class, turning us against each other instead of uniting against a government controlled by billionaires.
Trump’s attacks on universities reveal how fascism operates with open criminality, facilitated by the politics of compromise of university leaders and corporate Democrats. Attacking equity and inclusion means that treating all people equally is formally rejected. MAGA offers only the rhetoric of white supremacy, since most working class whites won’t be able to afford higher ed or other “privileges.”
Automation is polarizing humanity into one camp possessing the vast wealth of society and the other without adequate means of survival. As this polarization becomes more extreme, the struggle for basic necessities must move from trying to reform the system toward revolutionary transformation.
Nineteen years after her death, the work of acclaimed writer Octavia Butler has been renewed by the publication of a graphic art version of her prophetic anti-fascist novel Parable of the Talents. Her words and image have also reappeared in Internet news reporting and at rallies against MAGA.
Federal agents are terrorizing immigrants with raids at workplaces, stores and communities across America. It is easy to forget that in 2006 millions of...
Tradition of Struggle Inspires L.A. Wildfire Recovery
Among survivors of the January 7 Eaton Fire an idea has taken hold which can grow to challenge...
Insurance-driven healthcare treats working class lives as expendable, and the fight for publicly-owned healthcare is inseparable from the fight for a just, equitable society.