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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.
The meaning of the Harris housing plan
Some of the cruelest and most painful attacks on the working class are happening on the housing front. As Will Suphon of Tucson, Arizona explained, “The housing market, the job market, the price of food ... it’s all become rather insane and so many people are being thrown to the wayside. You can do everything right and still end up living in your car.”
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.
Defeat Project 2025, demand government meets basic needs
Project 2025 is a 920-page blueprint for the dictatorship that corporations openly plan to impose if they can get a “conservative president” elected or installed this November. It unquestionably represents the most immediate and dangerous tendency in the overall fascist offensive and must be defeated.
I QUESTION AMERICA
In 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer called on the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City to recognize delegates of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. This is her testimony about that state's fascist vote suppression and police brutality.
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.
Encampments a flashpoint in defense of Gaza
Across our country, university encampments protesting the Israeli Zionist genocide in Gaza have been attacked by administrators, police and even armed fascist gangs.
‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians’
This common protest chant embraces a profound reality that we live in dire times when all of us must, in some sense, struggle for our collective survival, existence and liberation alongside the people of Palestine.
Juneteenth: Celebration and continued struggle
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, halfway through the Civil War. The war had been fought to determine which form of capitalist rule would prevail over the country, one founded on slave labor or one based on wage labor.
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.
Waking up and shaking up local elections in 2024
Oakland, California has become a critical battleground in the escalating war between the working people of America, including millions of people of color, and a corporate billionaire class that is aggressively dedicated to maximizing its profits.
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.
THE PEOPLE DEMAND HOUSING, NOT PUNISHMENT
Wealthy West Coast real estate speculators and their supporters in state and local governments are stepping up their attacks on poor and unhoused people in our communities.
Unforgivable Losses: Opioid deaths and the war on drugs
Skid Row in Los Angeles has historically been an epicenter of state violence and abandonment. Whether policing “quality of life crimes” with Safer Cities Initiative or trashing lifesaving possessions in sweeps, it is a proving ground for new tactics of violence that are then exported around the country and the world.
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.
Reproductive rights: Democracy warriors on the march
Tyranny of the minority, the ruling class strategy that enslaved and impoverished millions of people deemed fit only to serve the powerful, is once again waging an all-out war on women.
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.
Criminalizing the poor and homeless of Los Angeles
California has a sordid history of criminalizing poor and homeless people with laws against sitting, lying, or sleeping/camping that date back to the 1870s. Just after the abolition of slavery in 1865, Penal Code 647e declared that “No person shall sit, lie, camp on public or private property without the owner’s permission.”
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...
The fight for reproductive freedom, health care and bodily autonomy demands the fight for democracy
A Trump-appointed judge in Texas is now poised to outlaw medication abortions in all 50 states, a nationwide ban that will impact some 40...
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...
The South leads the nation’s healthcare system to the brink
Your local hospital just closed. It happens behind the scenes, unless it’s in your city, town or neighborhood. The paradox of massive numbers of...
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...
The South leads the nation’s healthcare system to the brink
Your local hospital just closed. It happens behind the scenes, unless it’s in your city, town or neighborhood. The paradox of massive numbers 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...
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...
INSIDE Rally! The real choice in this year’s elections
No ballot for the 2022 elections will show “democracy” running against “fascism,” yet that is the choice behind many of the issues and candidacies...
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...
Revolution at the Ballot Box
The midterm elections were a massive war for ideas, as a record $16.7 billion was spent on the 2022 state and federal elections alone....
The Road to Real Democracy and Midterm Elections
The heart of the midterm election battles of 2022 is the struggle of the American people to survive this era of climate disaster, pandemic,...
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...
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,...
From the Editors: The Unity of Our Class and the Fight for Home
The difficulties of counting the homeless are well documented, but it is more than that which keeps us from gaining a clear picture of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
From the Editors: The Meaning of January 6
The January 6th storming of the Capitol led directly to the 2nd Impeachment of Donald Trump. Government and corporate leaders fought intensely over that,...
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,...
Fight of Amazon Workers Expresses Desperation Born of COVID-19
Stultifying toil describes well the conditions workers at Amazon face, driving them to participate in union organizing in multiple states. Employees are compelled to...
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...
El hito de la pandemia y nuestra lucha por vivir bien
Hemos alcanzado el hito anual de la pandemia de coronavirus. El presidente Joe Biden comentó: “Como nación, no podemos aceptar un destino tan cruel....
Pandemic Milestone and Our Struggle to Live Well
We’ve reached the year milestone for the coronavirus pandemic. President Joe Biden remarked, “As a nation, we can’t accept such a cruel fate. While...
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...
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...
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...
Blaming Us for What They Do: The Truth of the Pandemic
By November 2020, COVID-19 had become the leading cause of death in America, despite being unknown just one year ago. With only four percent...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Fight for a New Vision of what American Can Be
Corporations Make Billions off Pandemic
It didn’t have to be this way. The world’s largest economy rivaled only by China, the United States put private...
An Election Like No Other and the Fight for America
At a projected 161 million, the 2020 Presidential Election saw the greatest voter turnout in our history. Called at 75 million votes for Biden...
After the Elections: The Fight For Our Future
The record voter turnout and decisive electoral defeat of the Donald Trump administration is a victory for the working class and the entire American...
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...
After the Elections: The Fight For Our Future
The record voter turnout and decisive electoral defeat of the Donald Trump administration is a victory for the working class and the entire American...
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...
