Abraham Lincoln: Revolutionary Leader and Visionary

People need networks to secure their basic needs, paired with a revolutionary political program of economic rights for all.

Trump’s MAGA plan replaces teaching about equality and social justice with “patriotic education -- white supremacy, Christian Nationalism, and anti-migrant and LGBTQIA+ ideas.

Open class struggle is emerging in U.S. politics for the first time since the Great Depression. Based in the struggle for common needs, revolutionaries can develop fighters’ class consciousness.

Trump fascists divided by nationality, gender, etc. Corporate Democrats ignored common class interests. Revolutionaries fight for social equality AND for basic needs.

The 2024 elections are unleashing storms of controversy around who to vote for and why, around the role of third parties and even whether people should vote at all. In 1971, Black Panther Party leader George Jackson wrote that participation in ruling-class electoral politics is the opposite of revolution.

The fight against Prop 36 is gathering strength. Recently, grassroots organizations across the state came together, from Humboldt County down to San Diego, to get out the vote against Prop 36 and let the public know of the danger.

A year and 45,000+ Palestinian deaths after October 7, 2023, it is past time for the people of the United States to halt their ruling class complicity in genocide.  Demand that the US war-makers stop arming Israel!

In 2010, then-governor Rick Snyder of Michigan signed a new, more authoritarian version of that state’s Emergency Manager law, dispatching appointees to selected cities and school districts throughout the state, where local government and school boards would be replaced.

Immigration, asylees, and the border wall are front and center in the national spotlight. With cries of an “invasion by criminals, murderers and rapists” from “sh*t hole countries,” former president Trump is using immigration as a political football to score points with his political base and as a battering ram to drive his Democratic opponents further to the right.

Some of the cruelest and most painful attacks on the working class are happening on the housing front. As Will Suphon of Tucson, Arizona explained, “The housing market, the job market, the price of food ... it’s all become rather insane and so many people are being thrown to the wayside. You can do everything right and still end up living in your car.”

Something is happening here. What is the significance of the rise of the Kamala Harris campaign? For the workers, it is a dramatic opportunity not only to resist fascism, but to advance the movements for the basic necessities they need to survive.

On July 25, California governor Gavin Newsom declared war on unhoused people statewide. First, he ordered encampments removed from state land, with no regard for whether displaced people have somewhere else to go. Then on August 9, he doubled down and threatened to cut housing funding to any city or county that failed to sweep away its unhoused people.