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United Class Struggle will Determine Our Future
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.
The value of voting within a revolution
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.
PRIVATIZATION IN MICHIGAN, A PROJECT 2025 WARNING
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.
Project 2025: Scapegoating immigrants
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.
Fighting for basic needs in the fall campaign
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.
Defeat the Newsom attack: Housing is a human right
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.
Energy profits plunder Puerto Rican society, ecosystem
Last June 13, residents from Puerto Rico’s coastal town Salinas staged a righteously angry and spirited protest in the courtyard of the most luxurious apartment complex in San Juan’s main urban center. Its principal owner is Nicholas Prouty, a key figure in the damning roster of real estate and finance investors currently feeding off Puerto Rico’s energy and economic crisis, which they caused.
New strategy for unions is emerging
When times were better, the trade union movement was how many workers fought to achieve the American Dream, but now unions are increasingly necessary just to survive in the new economy. And even a union contract no longer guarantees families a secure future if they belong to the new social class that is rapidly becoming dispossessed of secure employment, housing or healthcare.
Reproductive freedom or fascism – fighting for women’s lives
A series of decisions by rogue courts and legislatures has forced reproductive freedom to the center of the 2024 elections, right there with migrant rights, genocide in Palestine, the planet, the economy, and the future of democracy.
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.
The Crisis of Student Debt and the Fight for Public Education
The CSU system, once hailed nationally for its affordability and accessibility, is now at a crossroads as nearly 400,000 students and their families confront the harsh reality of escalating costs. A new tuition increase has been imposed by the Board of Trustees.
2024: The war for democracy
Turnout in the 2024 elections will be decisive for at least temporarily stopping American fascists from destroying the little democracy we still have left. Would-be corporate dictators are organized, well-funded, and have plans to seize power at every level, from cities and towns to the federal government.
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.
Gaza war machine ‘made in USA’
The United States could stop the ongoing Gaza massacre of Palestinians by the Zionist government calling itself “Israel” in 24 hours, but it refuses to do so, even though the majority of Americans demand this.
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.
Abolition and Cultural Work: Making the Revolution Legible
A new form of abolition is arising today. First it aimed ending America’s systems of prisons and police; today it goes to the heart of the matter: “Abolition requires that you change one thing: everything.” (Ruth Wilson Gilmore, revolutionary scholar).
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.
Stop Cop City: a Climate Catalyst
Cop City is the name people have given to the proposed largest police training facility/mock city in the United States, in Atlanta, Georgia. To build it, the police foundation and their corporate donors will have to destroy 85 acres of the largest urban green space in the country, in a Black working-class neighborhood.
Juneteenth 2023: Where Woke refuses to die!
The most reactionary ruling class forces in the United States have launched a massive attack on the reality of the Black experience in America. Black history is American history -- and the denial and falsification of Black history is the denial and falsification of the history of America and the reality of America’s multiracial working class.
Public schools next school year: A world to win
The old school year ended this spring, centered once again on school shootings. In response to public demands to control assault rifles, many state governments have turned instead to controlling the free speech of teachers, LGBTQ people, African Americans and all marginalized groups.
Housing is the answer to homelessness
All across America, brutal encampment sweeps are tossing tents, blankets, and other belongings into trash compactors, and dispersing people into atmospheric rivers – or...
Chicago 2023: This election is different
Chicago is undergoing an historic election for mayor, city council and the newly formed Police District Councils (PDCs). Nine candidates vied for the mayor’s...
Puerto Rico energy crisis fuels class action
Since the industrial revolution, the world has run on fossil fuel: oil, coal, coal, gas and hydroelectrical energy. Capital depends on it, wages war...
From the Editors: Spreading strikes signal rise of new social force
U.S. strikes increased 91 percent from 2021 to 2022, the largest one-year escalation in 30 years according to Bloomberg. The global pandemic is exacerbating...
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...
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...
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...
LA’s Workers Reject Pitting Black vs. Brown
The outside billionaires’ attempt to take over the Los Angeles Unified School District board shows once again that they care only about capitalist investment...
Repression against the Homeless Is an Attack on All
All over the country, the repression against unhoused people is being amped up. Instead of putting resources into housing people, monies people vote for...
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...
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...
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...
End Homelessness, End Corporate Control of Housing
The housing movement in the United States is held back by real internal divisions that are manipulated by the real estate industry to thwart,...
COVID-19: A Shared Vision of the Way Forward
“None of us really anticipated Omicron,” Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Yvonne Maldonado told CNN in a late January overview of current discussion between experts. She...
From Illusions to Possibilities in 2022
After nine months of a pandemic that saw more than 70 million Americans go without work, and after mass unrest over the police murder...
Inside: Speculation Promotes Inequality in Housing, Society
In November, The Guardian ran a feature on Fresno, California — a portrait relevant to what’s happening all across America. “How One of California’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jack Hirschman, Poet and Revolutionary, 1933–2021
The world and the movement for social transformation have suffered the loss of one of our great lights and souls with the passing, at...
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...
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 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...
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....
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...
Oppose War and Occupation from Ferguson to PalestineSecretariat, League of Revolutionaries for a New America
In May, Israel’s vaccine apartheid, land theft, and indiscriminate killings left no doubt that we witnessed a new escalation in an ongoing genocide. The...
Stella Sikorski 1933-2021: Dedicated Revolutionary
We honor Stella Sikorski, a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, for her years of contribution to the future...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Rev. Bruce Wright, Revolutionary Fighter for Working Class Unity
Rev. Bruce Wright, a veteran and elder in the independent movement to end poverty, joined the ancestors on January 30th 2021. Rev. Wright was...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pandemic Enriches the Wealthy, Impoverishes Millions: Envision a Society Free of Want
The virus is running wild through our country. Two hundred thousand new cases every day, 1,500 deaths every day. Two hundred sixty-six thousand deaths...
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...
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...
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....
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...
What the uprising reveals about fascism and the military
Millions of us have made it clear that we don’t believe the American people become safer the more police there are. In fact, a...
