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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.
Migrants suffering capitalist chaos
In the United States and Western Hemisphere, we are seeing a global movement of people leaving their homes behind to find life-threatening hardships on their journeys, sometimes crossing up to 14 countries and their borders to get to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Classes Fight Over Puerto Rico’s Beaches
When a company illegally privatized a public beach, Puerto Rican workers demolished it themselves. They protected their “Commons” against capitalists there and from the U.S. mainland.
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).
Ukraine war is really an attack on the working class everywhere
In the first quarter of the 21st century, the U.S. government is embroiled in another large-scale military conflict that the American people are funding....
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...
Housing for all: Not one penny for war
By the Executive Committee for the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Nearly a year since the Russian invasion of...
Housing for all: Not one penny for war
By the Executive Committee for the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Nearly a year since the Russian invasion of...
Shooting the Messenger
The public’s health is under attack in America like never before. We have lost well over a million Americans despite being the wealthiest country...
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...
From the Editors: Unity of the Class, Unity of the Americas
On January 28, 1948, 28 migrant farmworkers were killed in an airplane crash which inspired folk singer Woody Guthrie to write, “Deportee ,” a...
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...
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...
In The Name of Peace: Rein In Our Government
The war in Ukraine drags on, amidst conflicting reports of atrocities and who caused them. Western media repeat the NATO dispatches attributing civilian deaths...
Dynamics of the Global Capitalist Crisis
The current international situation is fraught with political, economic, environmental, and social crises that threaten human existence as we know it. This situation is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
U.S.-Mexico Border is a Battlefield Over Fascism
Global migration has been on the rise, at this time estimated at 281 million people seeking safety and security, as well as basic survival....
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....
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...
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...
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...
Immigrant Fighters Alert to Danger of Betrayal
Undocumented people are not able to vote, but they have built a movement that has changed laws, challenged politicians and presidents, and won in...
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...
La pandemia: ¡El imperio no tiene ropa!
¿Por qué razón mientras la cantidad de personas desempleadas alcanzaban la cifra de 30 millones, la bolsa de valores iba en aumento? ¿Por qué...
Pandemic: The Empire Has No Clothes
Why is it that, when the numbers of unemployed were soaring past 30 million, the stock market went up? Why was it that, as...
May Day: The Cause of the Workers is the Hope of the World
In 1891, revolutionaries from various countries voted to celebrate May 1st as International Workers’ Day. The date honored the May 1, 1886, Chicago march...
Immigration Struggle in Texas
The Texas-México border has once again become strategically key to the struggle of dispossessed workers on both sides of the border, over 150 years...
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...
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...
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,...
China’s Rise and the Historical Decline of the U.S.
The United States share of the global gross domestic product has been in constant decline over the past 75 years. The U.S. accounted for...
Inside: New Hope and Energy in 2020
From the streets of Paris to the ancient cities of Baghdad, Beirut and Jakarta, to Chile, through Bolivia and Colombia, to the Southwestern border...
New Class, New Awareness for Puerto Rico
The “Ricky, Renuncia” (“Ricky, Resign”) movement was the umbrella that gave voice to over a third of Puerto Rico’s population, who took to the...
World Polarization, Destruction and Transformation
Editor’s Note: This article is the first of two adapted from the October 2019 Political Report by the Central Committee of the LRNA.
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Inside: Rising Spirit of Unrest
The 2020 election process reflects how much the peoples of the world face common problems. Young people expressed this truth by organizing global events...
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...
Fight Against Fascism, Fight for Immigrants
Our government’s vicious repression of migrants and the movement against it are both becoming more intense, making immigration a focal point of the 2020...
New Film on Common Roots of Problems
The most conscious leaders of the movement against immigrant repression understand that the government wants to keep the resistance confined within community and ethnic...
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....
Inside: New Social Force Can Win a World of Abundance
As the ruling class attempts to impose fascism to maintain the system of private property that is the source of their power and wealth,...
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....
Peace – A Life or Death Question
Why is the U.S. now threatening to invade Venezuela and to go to war against Iran? The first thing we have to do, is...
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: 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...
Rising Global New Class Demands a New World
A new class of workers is growing within the global economy. Its class position is defined by the development of qualitatively new means of production,...
Inside: A Revolutionary Patriotism
The robots are not coming. They are already here. The world as we have known it is being transformed by a revolutionary electronic technology...
‘Whose Water? Our Water!’
The corporate drive to own and/or control the public’s water, and the resulting poisoning, shutoffs and rising cost of water, aredrawing communities across the...
U.S. Global Hegemony and Capitalist Crisis
In 2008, the financial crisis spread quickly to all sectors of the global economy. To be sure, the direct cause of the crisis was...
Organized Crime and the Mexican State
Editors’ note: The writer is a friend of the League in Mexico, who has written and published extensively on the subject of Mexican organized...
End of Bribery, Dawn of Class Unity
As the technological revolution continues to rip industrial capitalism apart, it is also creating the possibility of uniting a growing new class of workers...
Globalization and Internationalism
The ever-extending globalization of the economy has created a new reality filled with problems and opportunities for those of us who are fighting for...
Inside: Build the World We All Want
Over fifty per cent of public school children live in poverty. Regardless of how much their parents work, many of these children are homeless,...
Global Capitalism and World War
Global capitalism is in a state of renewed chaos several years after the global financial crisis that wreaked havoc on the peoples of the...
Inside: Elections Unmask Crisis
America is in turmoil. If the electoral process underway does nothing else, it has unmasked a deep economic crisis, which is fast becoming a...
Texas: Dispatches from the Front
The capitalists say that in 2016 everything is going to get better. Even with the crisis in oil production, they say everything will be...
The European Union and the Fall of Social Democracy
Social Democracy originated as a political ideology with the goal of establishing “democratic socialism,” through reformist and gradualist methods. Social Democracy in Europe, as...
The Global Economy in the Epoch of Electronics
There persists among the people a great sense of unease, of anxiety and even anger, as if we all know deep down that we...
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...
Analysis of Forces: Indispensable to Revolutionary Strategy
In every quantitative stage of development the ruling class creates its own opposition that serves as a means of controlling the working class. The...
21st Century Fascism
The fundamental characteristic of fascism is corporate economic power merged with the political power of the State. Fascism in Germany and Italy during the...
The U.S. Corporate State and the Danger of World War
World capitalist powers have “gifted” humanity with two world wars in the twentieth century. The goal was to re-divide the world and its resources...
Inside: Abolish Private Property – Build a New Society
Homelessness – being without a home, without shelter – is not simply a temporary hard time, or a symptom of individual failing. It is...
The Meaning of the Crisis in Ukraine
Below, The League of Revolutionaries for a New America wrote a precise and still relevant overview of the motion that this crisis represents in...
Inside: The Dispossessed – Political Center of Gravity
Globalization and the shift from electro-mechanical to electronic production means of production have created a new class of proletarians. It is a new section...
Implications of the War on Syria and Iraq
The U.S. is in competition with other nations, and with Russia and China in particular, for markets and resources. It is also trying to...
General Gordon Baker Jr.: Evolution of a Revolutionary
General Gordon Baker Jr. of Detroit is one of the most significant 20th century revolutionaries. On Sunday May 18, 2014 he passed away. As...
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...
Reconstruct Society on a New Basis
A recent survey by the Brookings Institution found 42% of the American people believe that capitalism is either “not working too well” or “not...
Inside: Forward – Illuminating the Path
A new powerful spontaneous movement is arising. It is being driven by the growing inequality of wealth and impoverishment of the American people. It...
War and the Current Situation in Asia
The world is in the clutches of a social revolution triggered and fueled by the transition of social production from electro-mechanical production to electronics....
Korea: Key Link in Encirclement of China
The Korean War, or any war, has to be seen in the context of the strategic goals of the combatants as well as those...
Inside: The Ice is Beginning to Break
Over the past several years, particularly since the beginning of the 2008 global financial crisis, the protests and struggles of the peoples of the...
Elections 2012: Austerity, Third Parties, and the Global Economy
It is almost impossible to make an overarching assessment of the international and domestic situation in one article. Instead, we must try to grasp...
El movimiento antiimigrante y el fascismo
El fascismo de hoy es una respuesta política a la globalización - capitalismo en la era electrónica - y a la batalla de EE.UU....
The Anti-Immigration Movement and Fascism
Fascism today is a political response to globalization - capitalism in the age of electronics - and the U.S. battle to dominate the global...
Polarization Accelerates as Economic Power Shifts
The world has entered the beginning stage of a vast social revolution brought on by the transfer of social production from electro-mechanical production to...
Struggle Over Shifting Economic Power Drives World Instability and War
The world has entered the beginning destructive stage of a vast social revolution brought on by the transfer of social production from electro-mechanical production...
Impose Peace on the War Makers
Tens of thousands of people from around the country and the world are gathering in Chicago in May of 2012 to protest the murderous...
New Form of Racism Emerging
We are entering a vast social revolution. Every aspect of American life is being torn apart and something new is being created. America is...
Consciousness of Society’s Ills Fuels U.S. Upsurges
Over the last couple of years, numerous objective factors have combined to effect a quantitative change in the struggle. These factors include the developing...
Arab Uprisings and Global Capitalism
Editors’ note: The following article by a Middle East analyst in the LRNA is based on travel in the region, and interviews with those...
