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Beyond the Elections: The Political Revolution Continues
People need networks to secure their basic needs, paired with a revolutionary political program of economic rights for all.
The value of voting within a revolution
The 2024 elections are unleashing storms of controversy around who to vote for and why, around the role of third parties and even whether people should vote at all. In 1971, Black Panther Party leader George Jackson wrote that participation in ruling-class electoral politics is the opposite of revolution.
Reproductive freedom or fascism – fighting for women’s lives
A series of decisions by rogue courts and legislatures has forced reproductive freedom to the center of the 2024 elections, right there with migrant rights, genocide in Palestine, the planet, the economy, and the future of democracy.
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.
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).
Juneteenth 2023: Where Woke refuses to die!
The most reactionary ruling class forces in the United States have launched a massive attack on the reality of the Black experience in America. Black history is American history -- and the denial and falsification of Black history is the denial and falsification of the history of America and the reality of America’s multiracial working class.
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...
Reconstruction era lessons for fighting fascism
This is not the time to become complacent about our democratic rights to protest and to vote. Although some fascist politicians were defeated in...
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...
Fighting for our common interests: Lessons from the 2022 midterm elections
By the Executive Committee for the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
The 2022 midterm elections showed the power of...
Fighting for our common interests: Lessons from the 2022 midterm elections
By the Executive Committee for the National Council of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
The 2022 midterm elections showed the power 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...
Reconstruction era lessons for fighting fascism
This is not the time to become complacent about our democratic rights to protest and to vote. Although some fascist politicians were defeated in...
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...
Democracy, Fascism and the Revolutionary Needs of the People
The ruling class in the United States has accelerated its assault on the working class, especially the most dispossessed and marginalized of that class....
When We Fight, We Win – Progressive Surge Rocks Los Angeles Establishment
The following article was written by the Basic Needs Electoral Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America.
Thirty years after the Rodney...
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,...
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...
Revolutionary Transformation Today: Excerpts from the Political Resolution of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
The global ruling class that controls the tools and technologies of society has pushed humanity and Nature to the brink. For over a decade now, and in...
Our Country and the World Stand at a Crossroads: Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Editor’s Note: In this issue of Rally!, we are publishing the Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA), adopted by...
Inside: A New Program for a New America
Program of LRNA
In this issue, Rally! is publishing the new program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, adopted by delegates to...
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...
2022 Elections: Voting for Our Freedom
The spectacular 2020 victory over Donald Trump-style American fascism was a sign and a testament to the irresistible strength of the social movement when...
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...
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,...
The Facebook Controversy and the Fight for a New Society
To fight a pandemic, we must reach everyone in this tightly knit global economy with the best medicines, treatments, and strategies. Before even those...
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...
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...
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...
Alternative Facts, The Big Lie and Evolution
We live in a country where reality is being replaced by “alternative facts,” where we are besieged by an anti-vaccine campaign that replaces objective...
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...
Our Revolutionary History, Today’s Revolutionary Vision
In all of life, everything has a beginning, and an end. Revolution marks the time of transition from the dying of the old and...
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,...
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...
Rev. Bruce Wright, Revolutionary Fighter for Working Class Unity
Rev. Bruce Wright, a veteran and elder in the independent movement to end poverty, joined the ancestors on January 30th 2021. Rev. Wright was...
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...
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...
Police Terror, Rebellion and Revolution
An estimated 26 million people took to the streets in moral and political outrage at the public lynching of George Floyd on May 25,...
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...
Pandemic Enriches the Wealthy, Impoverishes Millions: Envision a Society Free of Want
The virus is running wild through our country. Two hundred thousand new cases every day, 1,500 deaths every day. Two hundred sixty-six thousand deaths...
Inside: ‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’
“Sufferings and Struggles, Hopes and Prospects” reports on life-or-death threats people face. Nearly 14 million children in the United States went hungry in June,...
Inside: An Epoch of Social Revolution
The events unfolding in the streets over police brutality and the COVID 19 crisis vividly express the crisis underway in the world. Its roots...
What the uprising reveals about fascism and the military
Millions of us have made it clear that we don’t believe the American people become safer the more police there are. In fact, a...
Generation Z and the Fight to Change the World
On July 6, when President Trump signed an executive order proposing a ban on the youth-oriented social media platform TikTok, it was natural to...
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...
Inside: Economic and Social Crisis Reveals Solution
As the world responds to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the majority of people need the intervention of the government to survive. We need safe...
Electoral Battles Reflect Growing Polarization
Almost overnight, the whole world has been upended. The world economy stands on a knife’s edge, and millions face an uncertain future. The coronavirus...
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...
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,...
Epochal Change Brings Forth New Leadership
The country is seeing the beginnings of new revolutionary forces developing, especially in recent years.
Alamance County in North Carolina, with a long history of...
New Year, New Class, New Vision
Though the dates vary from deep winter to mid spring (and in some African countries, fall), every part of the world celebrates the coming...
Striking a Blow Against Corporate Rule in 2020
America is increasingly heading into full-blown constitutional crisis. As impeachment hearings proceed, traditional processes of law and democracy are breaking down. Subpoenas are defied....
We Celebrate the Life of Comrade Bob Brown
We celebrate the life and contribution of comrade Bob Brown, who passed away on November 8, 2019. Bob was a fighter for his class,...
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...
Inside: Partial Measures Will Not Do
During the Democratic presidential debates for the 2020 elections, many of the candidates spoke about the skyrocketing housing costs, resulting in a glaring increase...
The Green New Deal, Framing Socialism and the 2020 Elections
The outcome of the 2018 Congressional elections was the entry of new progressive congressional representatives and the introduction of the Green New Deal (GND)....
Voter Suppression and the Battle for Democracy
Voting has long been proclaimed the hallmark of American democracy. At the same time, American history could be written as the history of voter...
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...
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...
Citizens United and the Future of Democracy
The 2010 U.S. Supreme Court Citizens United decision marked a turning point in the fascist merger of corporations and the State. It also marked...
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....
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...
What is Winning and Losing in the Midterm Elections?
The debate around the midterm elections opened up the discussion about how to resolve the problems of the vast majority of the American people.
About...
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...
Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, 2018
Editors Note: In this issue of Rally, Comrades! we are publishing the Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, adopted by...
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...
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: R – E – S – P – E – C – T
The soulful song of Aretha never rang truer than today. The American people just want to be able to contribute, provide for their families...
Revolutionary Work in 21st Century Elections
The United States and the entire world are in an epoch of social revolution. The worldwide transition from industrial production based on human labor...
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...
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...
Women Leading the FIght in the Interests of All Society
Women are leaders in today’s most active motions for a new society. They are fighting for health care, housing, water, the earth, better wages, quality...
How Can We Make A Difference?
In Sacramento, California, thousands rallied in protest against the police killing of an unarmed young black man, Stephon Clark. In Washington, D.C., teenage survivors...
Inside: A Higher Purpose, a Transformative Vision
Tens of thousands of teachers in antiunion “right-to-work” states are walking out on strike, demanding living wages and affordable healthcare from state governments. Millions...
Revolution and the Tasks of Revolutionaries
What is revolution? There are various conceptions of how revolution comes about. One is that revolution comes about because people believe in or want...
Teachers’ Uprising – A Fight for Everyone’s Future
The teachers’ uprising sweeping the country is a fight for the future, not only for our children, but for the well being of all...
The LRNA: Giving Voice to the Vision of a New World
The process of change is difficult and complex. In a world whose history is of revolutions, today’s revolution is unique and qualitative. It is...
‘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...
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...
Can People Change Their Thinking?
We began the New Year 2017 with a question: “What Time Is It?” We answered that question by showing how we are in a...
Politics and the New Class: Revolution or Ruin
A technological revolution is rapidly developing on the basis of digital computers, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and related technologies. This revolution is growing in power...
Our Class Needs to Know the Truth
Our Class Needs to Know the Truth
The revolutionary period we are in is real and profound. Nothing less than the fate of the planet...
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%...
Why We Subscribe to Rally, Comrades! — Readers Share Their Experiences
From Los Angeles, California: “Appreciation for the work that you all at Rally, Comrades! do to make it the finest revolutionary literature of its kind.”
From...
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...
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: The Truth Shall Set Us Free
The truth that science uncovers for us is more than just the facts. It is about the underlying causes of history, especially these times...
Corporate Money Aims to Control the Rising Movement
The capitalist class has always used the age-old tactic of divide and conquer based on race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, religion, and more to divide...
Being a Revolutionary Today
Those of us in the fight for the basic needs of survival – food, clean water, housing, health care, education and peaceful communities –...
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...
