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Encampments a flashpoint in defense of Gaza
Across our country, university encampments protesting the Israeli Zionist genocide in Gaza have been attacked by administrators, police and even armed fascist gangs.
‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians’
This common protest chant embraces a profound reality that we live in dire times when all of us must, in some sense, struggle for our collective survival, existence and liberation alongside the people of Palestine.
Defending Chicago’s migrants from rising fascism
An activist in the movement to defend immigrants recently shared how their struggle echoes that of his own family.
My parents are from the breathtakingly beautiful Westcoast of Ireland, with its rugged coast and crags of lichen-covered rocks. Yet, as my Irish-born father would say, you cannot eat the scenery. Like so many others, his heart never left his homeland, but their stomachs needed to find greener pastures.
MAGA school-voucher plans flunk in some red states
In this critical 2024 election year, MAGA and other fascist forces use public education as a venue for the performative politics of fear, anger, hatred. They claim they are victimized by certain public school programs, which are actually aimed at meeting the educational and emotional needs of all students.
Poor People’s Campaign brings demands of 140 million Americans to the statehouses
At noon local time Saturday, March 2 in at least 30 state capitals,the Poor People’s Campaign, A National Call for a Moral Revival will hold Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers State House Assemblies and to-the-Polls rallies.
THE PEOPLE DEMAND HOUSING, NOT PUNISHMENT
Wealthy West Coast real estate speculators and their supporters in state and local governments are stepping up their attacks on poor and unhoused people in our communities.
Wood Street Commons: Lessons from the front lines
Wood Street Commons organized a self-sustaining community to solve Oakland’s disgraceful homelessness problem. Local officials and police treated its revolutionary vision of a cooperative society as a threat to the system.
Criminalizing the poor and homeless of Los Angeles
California has a sordid history of criminalizing poor and homeless people with laws against sitting, lying, or sleeping/camping that date back to the 1870s. Just after the abolition of slavery in 1865, Penal Code 647e declared that “No person shall sit, lie, camp on public or private property without the owner’s permission.”
Defending Democracy, Reclaim Our Humanity from Florida to California and All States in between
The fascist monsters in Texas have carried out the recent torture and murder of migrant workers, women, children, even babies. They are killing in our name! In the web of lies they and haters like them spin, they are trying to frighten us into giving up our human rights.
Fighting for our common interests: Lessons from the 2022 midterm elections
By the Executive Committee for the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
The 2022 midterm elections showed the power of...
Fighting for our common interests: Lessons from the 2022 midterm elections
By the Executive Committee for the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
The 2022 midterm elections showed the power of...
Revolutionary Transformation Today: Excerpts from the Political Resolution of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
The global ruling class that controls the tools and technologies of society has pushed humanity and Nature to the brink. For over a decade now, and in...
Our Country and the World Stand at a Crossroads: Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Editor’s Note: In this issue of Rally!, we are publishing the Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA), adopted by...
Inside: A New Program for a New America
Program of LRNA
In this issue, Rally! is publishing the new program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, adopted by delegates to...
From the Editors: Displacement not Replacement
On the afternoon of May 14, an eighteen-year-old gunman tragically targeted and murdered ten African Americans and injured others at a grocery store in...
Entering a New Stage: The Advent of AI
Thirty years ago, Nelson Peery, in Entering an Epoch of Social Revolution, recognized and delineated the broad contours of an epoch-making shift in human...
Our Deaths Are Part of Their Plan
Americans will die sooner than expected, because of a dangerous virus and a lethal social system. America’s average life expectancy fell in 2021, for...
From the Editors: Government Fails to Protect Public’s Health
Entering calendar year 3 of the pandemic, America’s death toll has reached over one million lives. As state and local demagogues assure people it’s...
Government Fails to Protect Public’s Health
Entering calendar year 3 of the pandemic, America’s death toll is nearing one million lives. As the CDC issues suggestions for safe practices, state...
Women at the Forefront of Social Transformation
America is polarizing politically, but not primarily along the party lines of the two main political parties, or between red and blue states. There...
From the Editors: The Unity of Our Class and the Fight for Home
The difficulties of counting the homeless are well documented, but it is more than that which keeps us from gaining a clear picture of...
Repairing Ecological Destruction
The following article is based on a report presented to the Secretariat of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America.
Fossil fuels are not...
A New Economy Gives Rise to New World
The walls and foundations of a 3D-printed home can be completed in two days with a three-to-four-person crew and reduces the production costs down...
Black History Month: Disarming the Rulers with Our Unity
The conscious political unity of our diverse working class is necessary for building the power to create a new society, one where our collective...
From the Editors: Meaning of Arbery and Rittenhouse Verdicts
Police and vigilante murders of innocent people recently produced clashing verdicts, leading some to conclude that we don’t face a bad legal system, only...
A Vision of Unity and a Future for All
With the remarkable development of human knowledge, it seems impossible that so many could die from Covid-19. The U.S. is edging toward 800,000 deaths...
Una visión de unidad y un futuro para todos
Con el asombroso desarrollo del conocimiento humano, parece imposible que tantos mueran por Covid-19. En EE.UU. para principios de febrero más de 900,000 personas...
2022 Elections Pit Corporate Profit vs People’s Needs
America stands on the precipice of fascism, and whether it falls is up to us. The “slow-moving coup” unfolding since the failed insurrection of...
Inside: Love, Vision, the End of Division
Driven by desperation, nearly 15,000 people gathered under a bridge connecting Del Rio in Texas with Ciudad Acuña in Mexico. Most were originally from...
Defending Democracy
Summer wildfires and hurricanes, new pandemic variants, and the grisly fascist offensive have cast a cloud of doom over American society. These are signs...
From the Editors: Covid-19: Our Children are Counting on Us
We look at the numbers representing the toll of the Pandemic to understand our stark reality and see the possibilities of a better future.
Despite...
Pandemic Recovery Requires Shift in Consciousness
The betrayal of the poor couldn’t be more obvious. The U.S. ruling class has sacrificed more than 750,000 Americans, paying lip service to “essential...
Our Children are Counting on Us
We look at the numbers representing the toll of the Pandemic to better understand our stark reality and how to see the possibilities of...
Inside: Unity and the Struggle to Reconstruct Society
The articles in this issue examine crises in housing, COVID-19, public education, science, democracy, and the basic survival of humanity and nature.
As the political...
Demanding a Government that Meets Human Needs
The accelerating social revolution is forcing workers to enter the political arena, not only for their survival but also to defend the democracy they...
From the Editors: Pandemic: Homelessness Increased Instead of Housing
From the beginning of the pandemic, our class has fought to stop evictions, find safe housing for those without and provide basic needs for...
We Abolish Educational Inequality, or They Abolish Public Education
Public education from pre-school to higher education is being permanently transformed before our eyes. The massive intrusion of corporate-owned tech platforms into public schools...
Alternative Facts, The Big Lie and Evolution
We live in a country where reality is being replaced by “alternative facts,” where we are besieged by an anti-vaccine campaign that replaces objective...
New Impulses and the Work of RevolutionariesSecretariat, League of Revolutionaries for a New America
The line between a functioning democracy and its death by strangulation grows thinner day by day.
The people’s movement for basic needs and input into...
La pandemia: Un aumento de la indigencia en lugar de más viviendas
Desde el principio de la pandemia, nuestra clase ha luchado por detener los desalojos, encontrar viviendas seguras para aquellos que no las tienen y...
Pandemic: Homelessness Increased Instead of Housing
From the beginning of the pandemic, our class has fought to stop evictions, find safe housing for those without and provide basic needs for...
La respuesta a la pandemia y la lucha contra el fascismo
Al propagarse la pandemia, la gente de todas partes empezó a exigirles a sus gobiernos que los protegiera del Covid. Persistiendo, obligaron a un...
Pandemic Response and the Fight Against Fascism
As the pandemic began spreading, people all over the world demanded that their governments take action to protect them from it. Eventually, their pressure...
We Abolish Educational Inequality, or They Abolish Public Ed
Public education from pre-school to higher education is being permanently transformed before our eyes. The massive intrusion of corporate-owned tech platforms into public schools...
Demanding a Government that Meets Human Needs
The accelerating social revolution is forcing workers to enter the political arena, not only for their survival but also to defend the democracy they...
Our Imagination has Been Triggered (by this Pandemic)
Over 600,000 Americans died, and over 33 million were infected with COVID-19, much of which could have been prevented. Some are still getting sick....
Lessons from the Pandemic: Toward Complete Transformation of U.S. Health Care
Over a year ago, stunned and mask-less shoppers faced empty grocery shelves. The commercialization of human relationships and needs were called into question, as...
Inside: What is Our Country to Become?
In 2021, the question of the direction in which the country is headed remains paramount. What is this country to become? We have choices...
From the Editors: Opioid Crisis, an Addiction to Profit
“I think the answer is paying attention to people’s needs in the first place.” — Lisa Al-Hakim, Harm Reduction Alliance, Seattle, Washington.
Several major lawsuits...
Turning Point in the Fight Against American Fascism
The spring of 2021 marks an inflection point in America’s historic seesaw battle over the future of democracy and freedom. Over 360 pieces of...
Our Revolutionary History, Today’s Revolutionary Vision
In all of life, everything has a beginning, and an end. Revolution marks the time of transition from the dying of the old and...
Capitalism Can’t Keep Us Safe from Coronavirus
We can all appreciate that vaccines will slow the number of new COVID-19 infections and deaths without ignoring the 14,000 Americans still getting sick...
The Inequality Crisis: Vaccine Distribution and the Need for a New Society
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,...
True Justice, Beyond the Limits of the Past
Every country tells a story about itself. In America, one of the central ideas in our story is that “the unfinished revolution” of America...
Turning Point in the Fight Against American Fascism
The spring of 2021 marks an inflection point in America’s historic seesaw battle over the future of democracy and freedom. Over 360 pieces of...
Defeating COVID-19 with Science and Internationalism
The world’s people hoped that new vaccines for COVID-19 would soon defeat the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the biggest capitalists prioritized amassing ever more wealth,...
Juneteenth 2021: Revolutionary Reconstruction Today
The news that slavery was abolished finally reached Texas on June 19, 1865, over two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Today we celebrate...
From the Editors: The Meaning of January 6
The January 6th storming of the Capitol led directly to the 2nd Impeachment of Donald Trump. Government and corporate leaders fought intensely over that,...
Taking the Offensive to Defeat FascismSecretariat, League of Revolutionaries for a New America, May 2021
The stakes for our multiracial, multigendered and multigenerational working class are urgent and huge. It is essential to grasp the current conditions and to...
May Day: To Understand is to Hope
Hope: to cherish a desire with anticipation; to want something to happen or be true.
Understand: to grasp the meaning of.
(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
On this May 1st,...
Fight of Amazon Workers Expresses Desperation Born of COVID-19
Stultifying toil describes well the conditions workers at Amazon face, driving them to participate in union organizing in multiple states. Employees are compelled to...
Voter Suppression and the Battle for the Ballot
In the midst of a raging pandemic surging to new levels, on November 3, 2020, over 155 million voters turned out to cast their...
Inexcusable Rise of Homelessness During Pandemic
Though homelessness has been increasing for over four decades, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought homeless and tenant’s rights organizers to the forefront of American...
El hito de la pandemia y nuestra lucha por vivir bien
Hemos alcanzado el hito anual de la pandemia de coronavirus. El presidente Joe Biden comentó: “Como nación, no podemos aceptar un destino tan cruel....
Pandemic Milestone and Our Struggle to Live Well
We’ve reached the year milestone for the coronavirus pandemic. President Joe Biden remarked, “As a nation, we can’t accept such a cruel fate. While...
Mientras abren las escuelas, ¿qué merecen nuestros hijos?
La batalla campal entre el Sindicato de Maestros de Chicago (CTU) y las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago (CPS) por la reapertura de las escuelas...
As Schools Open, What Do Our Kids Deserve?
The pitched battle between the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) over reopening schools reveals how teachers, their communities, and...
Inside: A Future of Fascism or Communism
Six hundred sixty-six U.S. billionaires have gained over $1 trillion in wealth during the pandemic. These billionaires could pay for all of the relief...
Victory in Georgia and the War for America
Reverend Raphael Warnock, the newly elected African American senator from Georgia, is one of 11 children raised in public housing. Jon Ossoff, who won...
From the Editors: Hope in the Worst Health Crisis in a Century
2020 gave us the worst health crisis in 100 years, and along with it the worst economic crisis in 100 years. It was a...
Globalization and its Discontents
“All the world’s a stage.” These words of William Shakespeare have two meanings: first is the understanding that world history is the stage upon...
Juntos, más fuertes: la política de clase de la pandemia
Desde el comienzo de la pandemia, los negros, los indígenas estadounidenses y los latinos han sufrido al menos el doble de tasas de infección...
Stronger Together: The Class Politics of the Pandemic
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Blacks, American Indians and Latinos have suffered at least twice the rates of infection as white Americans, but...
Victory in Georgia in the War for America
Reverend Raphael Warnock, the newly elected African American senator from Georgia, is one of 11 children raised in public housing. His running mate, Jon...
Welcome to 2021: History Is Going Somewhere
2020 gave us the worst health crisis in 100 years, and along with it the worst economic crisis in 100 years. It was a...
Bienvenido a 2021: la historia va a alguna parte
2020 nos trajo la peor crisis sanitaria en 100 años y, junto con ella, la peor crisis económica en 100 años. Fue un año...
COVID-19 Catastrophe: Our Class versus the Corporate State
The new year begins with reflections on the hard lessons of 2020. Countries such as China, South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Vietnam, which...
Blaming Us for What They Do: The Truth of the Pandemic
By November 2020, COVID-19 had become the leading cause of death in America, despite being unknown just one year ago. With only four percent...
Our Government Responsible for Spread of Covid-19 Deaths
Among the hundreds of thousands of losses among the elderly to the coronavirus are parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends. Losses of family histories,...
New Year Calls for New Thinking
January was named for Janus, the Roman god who always turned one of his faces toward the past and the other one toward the...
Inside: Embracing Transformation for the Future
In the waning days of 2020, Sarah Palin, a demagogue of the ruling class, came to Georgia to speak at a rally on behalf...
From the Editors: Covid-19 Catastrophe
The new year begins with reflections on the hard lessons of 2020. Countries such as China, South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Vietnam, which...
Police Terror, Rebellion and Revolution
An estimated 26 million people took to the streets in moral and political outrage at the public lynching of George Floyd on May 25,...
From Abolition of Slavery to Abolition of Private Property: African American History and the Liberation of Us All
America’s working class is enormous and diverse, yet we share a life-shaping commonality — we must sell our labor to live. Because we have...
The Road to a New America Runs Through the South
Regardless of its outcome, the January 5 runoff election for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia represents a historic convergence. It joins together the...
Quality Education for All Children Is Possible During Pandemic
A popular song begins, “I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way.” If allowed to continue,...
The Road to a New America Runs Through the South
Regardless of its outcome, the January 5 runoff election for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia represents a historic convergence. It joins together the...
Shameful Wealth SkyrocketsLet’s Talk About What Really Divides America
The American people are deeply divided. The sharply contested elections of 2020 became an arena in which the ruling class fomented division, strife, and...
Inside: Beyond Survival to Human Liberation
This year we got a concentrated dose of what has long ailed our country — historical systematic racism, anti-government militias bent on violence against...
Battle of Ideas: Who Is To Blame for Pandemic?
Today’s Americans follow the news of coronavirus infections and deaths like other generations followed casualty reports during world wars, and the coronavirus pandemic actually...
Why Don’t They Care if We Die from COVID-19?
It seems clear that those with the power to ensure public health do not care if most of us live or die. Election week,...
¿Por qué no les importa si morimos de COVID-19?
Está claro que a los que pueden asegurar la salud pública no les importa un comino si la mayor parte de nosotros vivimos o...
A Cooperative Society or Barbarism
The overriding issue in the November 3 election is the future of American democracy, with all the life and death implications that has for...
Facing Sterilization and Inhumane Detention, Women Fight For a New Society
You see them first through the filmy resolution of the video posted on YouTube, about five or six women, with makeshift masks made of...
Enfrentando la esterilización y las detenciones inhumanas: Las mujeres luchan por una nueva sociedad
La primera vez que se les vio fue en un vídeo que se publicó en YouTube sobre una resolución diáfana y patente: unas cinco...
Imaginando un nuevo Estados Unidos
Ya es común pensar que el 2020 ha sido un desastre. ¿Qué nos ha enseñado, y cómo debemos seguir adelante? Tenemos que asegurar que...
Reimagine America
It’s become a common sentiment that 2020 has been a disaster. What do we learn from it, and how do we move forward? We...
Defeat Trump: Demand that Government Meet Basic Needs
The massive, spontaneous uprising of 2020, in response to the police murder of George Floyd, was possibly the largest and broadest mass movement in...
Inside: ‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’
“Sufferings and Struggles, Hopes and Prospects” reports on life-or-death threats people face. Nearly 14 million children in the United States went hungry in June,...
From the Editors: Beyond Devastation: New Ideas and the Way Forward
In times of great upheaval, all seems to be turmoil and often chaos. But history is not simply a never-ending circle where nothing changes...
