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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.
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.
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.
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.
Planetary forces must unite to defeat private property
2030. That is the year by which climate scientists have warned us that unless 50% of annual carbon emissions are erased an irreversible tipping point will be crossed. At that point, all of the mechanisms that have kept Earth’s climate balanced are at risk of becoming fundamentally destabilized. How did we get here?
Behind Puerto Rico’s stormy weather: naturalized social disasters and the profit logic of capitalism
Hurricane Fiona, making landfall in Puerto Rico on September 18, took lives, shut down the power grid and impeded access to drinking water for...
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...
Inside: Seeing Through Ruling Class Interests
What is happening in Ukraine is terrible, and 4.5 million refugees from that country is an extraordinary number. But as we watch the ongoing...
Turning point for the climate movement
“Many are starting to ask themselves, ‘What will it take for the people in power to wake up?’ But let’s be clear: They are...
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...
Water. Agua. Tó.
A small farmer in western Colorado dusts off his cap after climbing out from beneath a 1937 Massey Ferguson tractor. It is broken down...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Coronavirus Crisis Demands Revolutionary Solutions
On the eve of the elections, millions of American workers face an increasingly dire situation. With over eight million cases and more than 220,000...
La pandemia y los desastres forman parte de la guerra de clases
La pandemia ha matado a más de 200,000 estadounidenses y 1 millón de personas en todo el mundo, sin embargo, nuestro gobierno continúa asegurando...
Pandemic and Disasters Part of Class War
The pandemic has killed over 200,000 Americans and 1 million people worldwide, yet our government continues to ensure the survival of giant corporations more...
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...
Do Flint Lives Matter? $600 Million Settlement Says Not So Much
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Governor Gretchen Whitmer poke their chests out, announcing the compensation settlement for the disastrous Flint Water Crisis. While...
LA’s ‘Rust Belt’ Fights for Representation
Without voting for it, or wanting it, Assembly District 63 in the community of South East Los Angeles (known as SELA) has become a...
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...
Flint is Still Broken, Six Years Later
Dedicated to the memory of Laura Carter 57, Mary Watson 43, and Jasmine McBride 29 who succumbed to poisonous Flint MI water in 2019....
Inside: We Cannot Stay Still
In the middle of an election year, Donald Trump has been impeached. And acquitted. The impeachment and trial constituted a battleground in which the...
Superbugs: The Intersection of Technology, Healthcare and Ecology
The technological revolution is more than smartphones, driverless vehicles, factory robots, and automated harvesters, just as the ecological crisis is more than climate change,...
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...
Storms, Floods, and Fires Threaten Pursuit of Happiness
In the last two decades, there have been strong and destructive weather patterns occurring in the United States and worldwide. The fires in California,...
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...
Housing Policies Create More Homeless in California
When the most devastating wild fire in California’s history tore through Paradise and other mountain towns in northern California last fall, thousands of residents...
Outlaw Corporate Landlords and Make Housing Free
A national epidemic of evictions, homelessness, and housing insecurity is spreading to every region of the country. Its scale can no longer be dismissed...
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...
Inside: Blowing in the Wind
A storm is coming. We can track its approach, but even as we are caught up in its vortex, there is no amount of...
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...
The Anthropocene and Fossil Capitalism
The Anthropocene is a term first seriously used in 2000 by climatologists to recognize that human beings have become the primary new geological force...
Denied a Future, Young Workers Have a World To Win
Maria Fernandes held down three jobs, working over 87 hours each week, split between three New Jersey Dunkin’ Donuts locations. “She worked so much,...
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...
Inside: Epochal change requires struggle for political power
Politics is the struggle for political power. The increasing economic and social destruction and polarization in capitalist society today is the result of productive...
The Fight for the Planet is a Fight for the People
Last September, in an outpouring that far exceeded expectations, 400,000 people turned out for the People's Climate March in New York City, joined by...
Protect Planet Earth
Capitalism is a dying system. But like a fatally wounded beast, it is attacking the hands that once fed it. As new electronic means...
Save Humanity, Save the Earth
Two interrelated global crises confront us in this intense epoch. Exponentially accelerated technological development has pushed the inherent contradiction of capitalist to its limit...
In This Issue: Globalization and its Discontents
In May of this year tens of thousands of revolutionaries from across the country gathered in Chicago during the convening of the "Group of...
Revolution is the Only Answer for New Proletariat
The protests and uprisings sweeping the globe are firing the imaginations of millions of people fighting for a new world. Although the history, ideologies...
