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Stop the War on Iran!

Military attacks abroad and fascist attacks here at home are both products of a dying system. It must be replaced by one that protects humanity’s future. - Statement from the League of Revolutionaries for a New America.

Fascism is Not New to America

Fascism began as the violent, racist rule of the U.S. South after Reconstruction. Today’s growing fascism makes working class unity possible and necessary.

Martin Luther King DAY 2026

We stand with the many who are stepping forward to be part of this social revolution.

Illegal U.S. Invasion of Venezuela

Statement by the League of Revolutionaries for a New America

Reform and Revolution 2025

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.

Enough with the Excuses about Coronavirus: Solutions for a New Society

To hear the politicians and CEOs, you’d think that the only solution to the catastrophic situation today is setting the corporations freer to gouge...

The Coronavirus and the Necessity of a Communist Vision

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (or COVID-19) has made vivid the need for a society that puts people above private property. Never has...

From the Editors: A Class Perspective on Nationalization

Though the two major parties have argued since late March about the nationalization of healthcare as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, private interests...

From the Editors: The Ray of Light Inside the Pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has reached nearly every corner of the world. In just 42 days, 582,634 of us in the U.S. have COVID-19, and...

From The Editors: The Coronavirus and the Necessity of a Communist Vision

We now know that the coronavirus began spreading in the United States sometime in mid-January, almost precisely when the World Health Organization made available...

From the Editors: Impeachment and Our Fight

Past impeachments show us that presidential impeachment is largely a struggle within the ruling class over the direction of the country, particularly in the...

From the Editors: Today’s Moral Imperative

“I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be...

From the Editors: We Want Real Big Change

The specter of global mass extinction confronts all of humanity. Young people, who are seeing clearly now that they face an imperiled future, are...

From the Editors: Cause and Solution

El Paso is a bellwether of the heightening crisis that is engulfing our society today. On August 3, an assassin armed with a weapon...

From the Editors’: El Paso — Cause and Solution

El Paso is a bellwether of the heightening crisis that is engulfing our society today. On August 3, an assassin armed with a weapon...

From The Editors: What They Say and What They Mean

As high-tech globalization destroys the economic basis of industrial capitalism, the global political relations serving that system are also being disrupted. Increasingly aggressive U.S....

From the Editors: Change in Thinking is Key to Our Future

Millions of people are starting to engage in an effort to reform our society. Success depends on understanding under what conditions reform can be...

The Meaning of Venezuela

The U.S. and world ruling class have their hands full with Venezuela. Venezuela is by no means a weak nation, isolated from the world....

The Fight for Healthcare for All

There have been over 70 unsuccessful attempts to repeal “Obamacare’ – the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – including 2 trips to the US Supreme...

From the Editors: Ten Years After the Financial Meltdown

Recently much is being written about the ten-year anniversary of the financial meltdown, commonly referred to as the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Most of...

Right from Wrong

“How we live, what kind of society we are going to have, who has a right to live, who can eat and who can...

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: Peace is a Necessity of Life

The world is rife with polarization, conflict, and war. Efforts by a ruling class to maintain its hold on private property, both at home...

From the Editors: The Immorality of Deporting America’s Dreamers

Eighty-seven percent of Americans support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program protects nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who were...

Dark Vision

The elections of 2016 marked a season of discontent, a time which expressed a deep dissatisfaction with the direction in which the country is...

From the Editors: Climate Disasters: The Corporate State Versus Humanity

Climate change disasters are intensifying the ongoing economic polarization of wealth and poverty in U.S. society. These are not “natural disasters,” as ruling class...

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...

From the Editors: “First Do No Harm”

Health care in America is a matter of life and death. It is a fundamental necessity of life itself. Without it your very life...

De los editores: Santuarios: Forjando vínculos de afinidad de clase

“Su único delito es ser pobre”. – Esposo de Guadalupe García de Royos, madre de dos, arrestada por el ICE y deportada hacia México...

From the Editors: Sanctuary – Forging Bonds of Class Kinship

“Her only wrongdoing is just being poor.”  – husband of Guadalupe Garcia de Royos, mother of two, arrested by ICE and deported to Mexico...

From the Editors: Who is Donald Trump?

There is probably no other question foremost in the minds of the American people. Trump has seen to that. So is he just the...

From the Editors: An Epoch of Social Revolution

Ours is a time of social upheaval, of a growing groundswell surging up from below, bent on both resisting and resolving the crisis of...

Standing Rock and the Priority of Public Good

Across the United States a large movement is growing to protect water as our most basic, precious and needed natural resource. Water is essential to maintaining human life. The struggle being led by the Standing...

After the Elections: Which Way Forward?

It’s over. But it’s not. When the election campaigns began more than a year ago, over half of the people said they thought the...

From the Editors: The 2016 Elections

The economic revolution and the consequent increasing economic polarization in the U.S. are finding political expression in the 2016 general election cycle. The ruling...

The Poisoning of Flint: A Public Health Crisis

The poisoning of Flint water and the water cut-offs in Detroit are public health disasters. Both are a result of a failing economic system...

From the Editors: First They Came for Michigan

The state of Michigan provides ample proof that the capitalist class is not fit to rule. Fascist rule is replacing all vestiges of democracy...

From the Editors: Flint – Water is a Human Right

The poisoning of the people of Flint, Michigan—especially the children—with lead and other toxins in the drinking water, is just the latest ugly example...

From the Editors: Global Austerity Measures – Fascism in Disguise

In 2010, immediately after Greece announced that it that its economy was about to collapse and that it was heading towards bankruptcy, the International...

Abolir la propiedad privada—y Transformar la sociedad

La nueva tecnología electrónica y automatizada está socavando los cimientos mismos de la sociedad.  Está creando profunda miseria para miles de millones de seres...

From the Editors: The Pursuit of Happiness

"When it can be said by any country in the world, my people are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among...

The Fight Against Police Violence is a Fight for a New Society

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are taking to the streets demanding an end to the rising murderous militarized police state. One of the demonstrators’...

Unite on Common Economic Interests

Andy Lopez in Santa Rosa. Kelly Thomas in Fullerton. Manuel Diaz in Anaheim. James Boyd in Albuquerque. Mike Brown in Ferguson. These are but...

Standing in the Way: Private Property

Thousands of families in Detroit go without running water in their homes – but corporations get nearly unrestricted access to this natural resource in...

Desde el Editors: Estos niños son nuestros niños

Hay aspectos que son terriblemente viejos y aterradoramente nuevos en relación con la reciente crisis en la frontera mexicano-estadounidense. Después de años de aumento...

From the Editors: These Children are Our Children

There are aspects that are terribly old and frighteningly new concerning the most recent crisis along the Mexican American border. After years of ramping...

Defend the Leaders of Our Class, Fight for a Vision of a New World

Trumped up charges of "vote fraud" against  Reverend Edward Pinkney, a long-time resident and anti-corporate activist in Benton Harbor, and community leader James Cornelius,...

Chicago at Center of Battle to Keep Public Education Public

The motion around public education provides tremendous opportunities to introduce new ideas and reach new revolutionaries. The State is reorganizing public education at every...

A New Stage of a Powerful Social Movement Arises

In our assessment of the Trayvon Martin situation we noted that we are seeing the beginnings of a new stage of a powerful spontaneous...

A New Stage of a Powerful Social Movement Arises

In our assessment of the Trayvon Martin situation we noted that we are seeing the beginnings of a new stage of a powerful spontaneous...

Immigration: No One is Illegal

The issue of the undocumented immigrant today has to be seen in the context of globalization and capitalism in the age of electronics. The flow of poorer workers to richer countries is an objective part of that process.

The Meaning of Newtown

On December 14, 2012 the nation and the world were shocked and horrified when a gunman armed with a military-style assault weapon invaded Sandy...

After the Elections: Class interests to the Fore

The 2012 elections are over. The $6 billion has been spent, the defeated candidates have gone back to their offices and board rooms to...

Puestos de trabajo y elecciones

A medida que se intensifica la campaña política, también aumentan los esfuerzos de los candidatos principales para no abordar el tema central y lo...

Jobs and the Elections

As the political campaign intensifies so does the efforts of the major candidates to not talk about the central issue by talking all around...

Unity of Dispossessed only Weapon as Fascist Culture Gains Ground

The anti-immigration drumbeat that has been led by nativist gangs and neo-nazi vigilante-type groups is contributing to the building of a fascist culture that...

The Meaning of Trayvon Martin

In any assessment it is critical to examine the underlying process that gives rise to certain events, taking history into account. Any fascist movement...

From the Editors: Middle East Upheaval Signals New Era

Global capitalism in the age of electronics and the attendant neoliberal policies have created a huge and widening gap between wealth and poverty across...