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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Capitalism Cannot Withstand AI
The famous scientist, Stephen Hawking once warned that artificial intelligence (Ai) would be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.” The issue is which human social force – which economic class of people – controls it.
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...
We Demand a New Birth of Freedom in 2022
The 2020 U.S. elections were the most important since the Civil War and Reconstruction era, and the elections in 2022 promise to be even...
Inside: Abolitionist Class Fights for Democracy, Threatens Private Property
Only a few months ago it appeared that the big mouths of private property were going to sweep the November 2022 midterm elections. As...
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...
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...
Entering a New Stage: The Advent of AI
Thirty years ago, Nelson Peery, in Entering an Epoch of Social Revolution, recognized and delineated the broad contours of an epoch-making shift in human...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Eviction Moratorium Battle
The seesaw, eighteen-month campaign over the eviction moratorium has starkly exposed the conflict between human rights and the power of corporate property in American...
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...
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...
End the Scourge of Homelessness: Abolish Evictions
“Shelter, stability, and storage are what the homeless are looking for … And they will continue to develop in nooks everywhere. The city is...
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...
End the Scourge of Homelessness by Abolishing Evictions
“Shelter, stability, and storage are what the homeless are looking for… And they will continue to develop in nooks everywhere. The city is wasting...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Capitalism Creates Food Scarcity, Communism Distributes Abundance
Among those severely impacted by capitalism are the workers we depend on the most—those that keep us fed. Small farms and ranches are slowly...
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...
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,...
Capitalism Creates Food Scarcity, Communism Distributes Abundance
Among those severely impacted by capitalism are the workers we depend on the most—those that keep us fed. Small farms and ranches are slowly...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From Fighting Eviction to Cancelling Rent
Thirty to forty million Americans are at risk of pandemic-related eviction as the various state, and local restrictions expire this fall, according to the...
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...
A Cooperative Society or Barbarism
The overriding issue in the November 3 election is the future of American democracy, with all the life and death implications that has for...
From Fighting Eviction to Cancelling the Rent
Thirty to forty million Americans are at risk of pandemic-related eviction as the various state, and local restrictions expire this fall, according to the...
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...
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...
Health Care Crisis: The Future is Up to Us
A society that is governed in such a way that it fails to protect its people from the catastrophic harm of the COVID 19...
COVID-19 Generates Housing Takeovers and Rent Strikes
The coronavirus crisis has shifted the debate about housing and homelessness in America overnight. In February bipartisan plans to force homeless people into mass...
Pulling Back the Curtain: A New Day for Humanity
If there is one constant in life, it is that everything is changing all the time. We may be that blue dot in a...
Something New Is in Our Grasp: Millions Worldwide Decry George Floyd Murder
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: 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...
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...
Revolutionary Politics in the Era of Dying Capitalism
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not...
Advances in Economy Call for Revolutionary Change
Labor-replacing automated technology is rapidly advancing, transforming and restructuring the jobs-based economy. These rapid advances in the economy are accelerating the growth of a...
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...
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 Coming Crash
In his 2019 State of the Union message, President Donald J. Trump boasted, “We have the hottest economy in the world.” Careful what you...
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 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...
Take Up the Vision of a New America!
A group of scientists will be giving United Nations’ leaders a New Year’s gift that some may want to give back. Investigative journalist Nafeez...
Inside: Every Beginning Means Something is Ending
In a New Year’s resolution, “a person resolves to change an undesired trait or behavior, to accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve their...
From the Editors: A Practical Solution to Homelessness in America
There is an abundance of housing in America. Millions are homeless in America.
California is the breadbasket of the world; it produces enough food to...
The Hope in Life After Capitalism
These are turbulent times. All such times in history have their own content and dynamics. It is up to us, those who live in these...
Crossing the Nodal Line
We look at events in the world as a process. The current quantitative stage of development simply can go no further, and transformation is...
Nationalization: Meeting the Demands for Life
Millions of people have taken to the streets in the U.S. in response to their growing poverty and to end the growing violence. Due...
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: Demands of the New Class at the Forefront of the Electoral Struggle
In this, our July/August issue, we look to the growing movement that is sweeping the country. This movement is not simply opposing, defending, or...
The Fight for Water is a Fight for a New Society
Ignoring clear evidence that the crisis is continuing, Governor Rick Snyder announced on April 6, 2018, that Michigan would close the four remaining centers...
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...
Reform and Revolution
The defining characteristic of capitalism is that the owners of capital exploit human labor to produce commodities that the workers must then purchase with...
We Have a New World to Win
“Imagine all the people
sharing all the world”
“Imagine” by John Lennon, 1971
Imagine a world where all of humankind is free from want. Imagine a world...
Inside: Humanity Faces Two Paths
The corporate State and the system of private property stand in the way of humanity’s creating an economic system that conforms to the new...
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...
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...
Homelessness: Sign of a Broken System
The past two years have revealed a shocking rise in homelessness in virtually every corner of the nation. Los Angeles County homelessness rose 23%...
Inside: Property – Public for the Many or Private for the Few
Denied the basic necessities of life, millions of American workers are engaged in a life and death struggle to survive. At the same time,...
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...
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...
Closing the Gap between Illusion and Reality
This past Earth Day 2017, scientists marched on Washington and around the world to protest the ruling class’ war on science. During a revolutionary...
Revolution in Technology Makes Revolution in Society inevitable
The capitalist ruling class and their advisors at elite universities and corporate foundations are feeling uneasy about rising joblessness during this period of massive...
Is a Universal Basic Income the Solution?
“. . . so-called universal basic income (UBI) is currently one of the most hotly debated policy topics being floated as a means...
Class Unity Decisive in Fight for New Society
As the workers awaken to the truth of their conditions, the necessity for unity is becoming a decisive factor in the struggle for a...
