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Juneteenth and the Unfinished Work of Freedom
The abolition of chattel slavery transformed the nation, but that wealth was never redistributed to the people who had been enslaved. Private property survived, and the ruling class reorganized around new ways to exploit labor, control land, and divide workers along racial lines.
Reconstruction era lessons for fighting fascism
This is not the time to become complacent about our democratic rights to protest and to vote. Although some fascist politicians were defeated in...
To end police terror, we need to end capitalism
Tyre Nichols is another victim of the relentless assault of the police on human dignity and life.
Nichols’ brutal murder in January brought the movement...
Latinas/Latinos and the midterm elections of 2022
The midterm elections of November 2022 are over, and the anticipated “Red Wave” tsunami of wins by Republicans over Democrats in the U.S. Congress...
A Better World’s in Birth
Currently in Los Angeles, California the ruling class is expanding the use of police to enforce Los Angeles municipal code 41.18. This code mandates...
Latinas/Latinos and the midterm elections of 2022
The midterm elections of November 2022 are over, and the anticipated “Red Wave” tsunami of wins by Republicans over Democrats in the U.S. Congress...
A Better World’s in Birth
Currently in Los Angeles, California the ruling class is expanding the use of police to enforce Los Angeles municipal code 41.18. This code mandates...
When We Fight, We Win – Progressive Surge Rocks Los Angeles Establishment
The following article was written by the Basic Needs Electoral Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America.
Thirty years after the Rodney...
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...
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...
Revolutionary Vision: Toward a Cultural Offensive
Every element of the actual, physical war against the American people is at the same time a cultural war to divide and conquer. In...
What to the Working Class Is the Fourth of July?
“What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?” asked abolitionist Frederick Douglass in 1852, in what has been described as one of...
Juneteenth – The Southern Question Today
We are in a revolutionary situation today. Exacerbated by the pandemic, the economy is in crisis. Millions remain out of work, even as inflation...
The Truth About the Pandemic and Policing in U.S.
Americans are suffering almost 500,000 new coronavirus infections per day, with over 100,000 being hospitalized, and a death rate over 1/3 higher than at...
La verdad sobre la pandemia y la policía en EE. UU.
Los estadounidenses sufren casi 500,000 nuevas infecciones de coronavirus por día, con más de 100,000 hospitalizados y una tasa de mortalidad 1/3 más alta...
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...
State of Michigan Sows Another Water Disaster in Benton Harbor
In 2018, Benton Harbor resident Emma Kennard’s daughter came to visit from Texas. She wanted to take a bath, only to discover a tub...
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...
The Facebook Controversy and the Fight for a New Society
To fight a pandemic, we must reach everyone in this tightly knit global economy with the best medicines, treatments, and strategies. Before even those...
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...
Secure Our Health and Safety, not Corporate Interests
Disgust with the Trump Administration’s feeble defense of American lives during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many of the votes for Joe Biden last...
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...
Understanding New Forms of Fascism in America
Change is upon us, and it can’t be managed by reforming one or another aspect of the atrocities we are experiencing.
Many American people, especially...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vision and the Music of the Pandemic
Born from ongoing cultural dialogue between the poorest European immigrants, the descendants of slaves from West Africa, and America’s Indigenous peoples, the concept of...
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...
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...
Vision and the Music of the Pandemic
Born from ongoing cultural dialogue between the poorest European immigrants, the descendants of slaves from West Africa, and America’s indigenous peoples, the concept of...
Inside: Break from the Ruling Class, Chart Our Own Path
A year of violence against Asian Americans, blamed for the so-called “China flu,” culminated in increased bloodshed at the one-year anniversary of the pandemic....
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...
Taking the Offensive to Defeat Fascism Secretariat, League of Revolutionaries for a New America, May 2021
The stakes for our working class are urgent and huge. It is essential to grasp the current conditions and to chart a strategic political path to our common future.
Police Killings and Our Fight for Class Unity
The city of Minneapolis made a $27 million settlement with the family of George Floyd, murdered by police last year. Officer Derek Chauvin was...
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...
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...
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...
We Can’t Have Human Health Without Environmental Health
The realities of personal and planetary health are bound together. Air and water pollution, fires and floods, current and potential pandemics, all of these...
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...
How Do We Win?
The New Year is always a time for reflection and for new resolutions. It is a time for assessing where we are now and...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
What Kind of Government do We Need to Survive the Pandemic?
It has been over nine months since the first COVID-19 stay at home orders began in U.S. states. We are going through unprecedented times...
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...
Fighting for An America Worthy of Breonna’s Memory
“Say Her Name” is a phrase that dates back to the 2015 death of activist Sandra Bland in police custody, but for millions of...
The Truth About Kenosha
On Sunday, August 23, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha police officer. A Rally, Comrades! correspondent who participated...
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...
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...
Pandemic: ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’*
Albany, Georgia, was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic when it first began to take hold in Georgia. The sole incorporated town in rural...
Sufferings and Struggles, Hopes and Prospects
Sixty-two percent of Americans agree that the U.S. government’s handling of the Coronavirus crisis is going badly. No community is untouched by the devastating...
¿Qué sucede con un sueño postergado?
Secretaría, Liga de Revolucionarios por una Nueva América
Le tomó a la policía de Minneapolis 8 minutos y 46 segundos asesinar a George Floyd. La...
What Happens To A Dream Deferred?
Secretariat, League of Revolutionaries for a New America, June 2020
It took 8 minutes and 46 seconds for the Minneapolis police to murder George Floyd....
Poderosa Fuerza insurgente hacia una nueva sociedad
Comenzó como explosión de agonía y justificado coraje por el asesinato policiaco de un desarmado hombre Africano- Americano, George Floyd. Se convirtió en una...
Mighty Force Rising for a New Society
It started as an explosion of agony and righteous anger at the police murder of unarmed African American George Floyd. It became a rebellion...
Something New is in Our Grasp
Millions of Americans and people worldwide are revolted by the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and organizing and speaking out in...
Inside: An Epoch of Social Revolution
The events unfolding in the streets over police brutality and the COVID 19 crisis vividly express the crisis underway in the world. Its roots...
Louisiana: Land of Beauty and Crisis
Southern Louisiana, alongside the great Mississippi River, is where, from Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico, a vast delta widens out, coursed with...
Remembering Who We Are in the Heart of the Pandemic
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with...
Generation Z and the Fight to Change the World
On July 6, when President Trump signed an executive order proposing a ban on the youth-oriented social media platform TikTok, it was natural to...
Something New Is in Our Grasp: Millions Worldwide Decry George Floyd Murder
Millions of Americans and people worldwide are revolted by the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and organizing and speaking out in...
Elections 2020: As the South Goes, so Goes the Nation
Both major political parties in the U.S. have had their own “Southern strategy.” It is the long-established formula for political power for the ruling...
Demands for Basic Needs and the Electoral Process
Editors’ Note: The following is an abridged version of the March 2019 Political Report on the Midterm Elections, from the Central Committee of the...
Voter Suppression and the Battle for Democracy
Voting has long been proclaimed the hallmark of American democracy. At the same time, American history could be written as the history of voter...
Inside: A Cooperative Society is the Only Solution to the Demands of Our Class
In this issue of Rally, Comrades! we address the growing movement for basic needs and also how it’s being expressed in the electoral arena. The different...
Juneteenth 2019: ‘Bottom Rail on Top this Time!’
During the U.S. Civil War, a formerly enslaved African American Union soldier, upon seeing his former “master” with other captured Confederate soldiers said, “Hello,...
Race and Class in a Time of Epochal Change
With the beginning of the new year of 2019, African Americans in particlar and indeed the American masses as a whole, are facing a...
The Rising Movement Today
The leap in the economy, from industrial production to electronic production, is forcing millions of workers out of jobs, destroying the standard of living...
Illuminating the Path to a New America
Editors Note: In this issue of Rally, Comrades! we are publishing the Political Resolution of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, adopted...
From the Editors: Reverend Edward Pinkney is Free!
A major victory has been achieved in the protracted battle in Benton Harbor, Michigan, against corporate dictatorship and for a government and society that...
From the Editors: Charlottesville – No Going Back
As we go to press, the battle lines have been drawn. There is no going back. Both during, and after Charlottesville, we see a tremendous...
Unity of Our Class: Indispensable Step for the Liberation of Humanity
Something new is arising and growing by the day in America. Based in the objective development of new technologies at the core of the...
Inside: Make History
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with...
Revolutionary Change in America
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am...
Inside: History is on Our Side
The polls have been telling us for some time now that the American people do not believe that the country is headed in the...
Inside: We Have Been Naught We Shall Be All
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the...
Defend the Leaders of Our Class
The Rev. Edward Pinkney, courageous and heroic fighter for the working class of Benton Harbor, Michigan was unjustly convicted on absolutely no evidence and...
Strategy and Political Power in America: The Role of the South
The question for revolutionaries today is, how does the introduction of robotics affect the question of political power? And what are the strategy and...
Break with the Past, Prepare for the Future
Editors' Note: The following opening remarks, written by Nelson Peery, were prepared for a national LRNA meeting held in September 2015.
First of all,...
On Syndicalism: An Interview with Nelson Peery
Editors Note: This interview was conducted by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers Media Project in July 2015.
First of all, syndicalism was the foundation...
Women and the Fate of Society
There is a struggle breaking out, and women are on its front lines. This struggle is a response to extreme polarities of wealth and...
Inside: The Front Line: The Battle for the Basics of Life
There is a profound disruption taking place n the economic foundation of society itself. A consequence of the new electronic tools of production is...
