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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Defending Democracy, Reclaim Our Humanity from Florida to California and All States in between
The fascist monsters in Texas have carried out the recent torture and murder of migrant workers, women, children, even babies. They are killing in our name! In the web of lies they and haters like them spin, they are trying to frighten us into giving up our human rights.
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.
Public schools next school year: A world to win
The old school year ended this spring, centered once again on school shootings. In response to public demands to control assault rifles, many state governments have turned instead to controlling the free speech of teachers, LGBTQ people, African Americans and all marginalized groups.
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...
Latinas/Latinos and the midterm elections of 2022
The midterm elections of November 2022 are over, and the anticipated “Red Wave” tsunami of wins by Republicans over Democrats in the U.S. Congress...
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...
Latinas/Latinos and the midterm elections of 2022
The midterm elections of November 2022 are over, and the anticipated “Red Wave” tsunami of wins by Republicans over Democrats in the U.S. Congress...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Reproductive Justice in the Age of Fascist Advance
In 1857 the Supreme Court decided the infamous case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, ruling that Dred Scott, an enslaved man who had lived...
Reproductive Justice in the Age of Fascist Advance
In 1857 the Supreme Court decided the infamous case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, ruling that Dred Scott, an enslaved man who had lived...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Women in the Forefront of Revolutionary Struggles
As the people continue to face the coronavirus pandemic, women are disproportionately represented among essential workers. Women of color are disproportionately represented within these...
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...
Fighting for An America Worthy of Breonna’s Memory
“Say Her Name” is a phrase that dates back to the 2015 death of activist Sandra Bland in police custody, but for millions of...
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...
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...
Women’s Homelessness is a Crisis of Civilization
Note from editors: In 1910, an international conference of socialist women declared March 8th as International Working Women’s Day, in honor of the struggles of...
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...
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...
Women Take on Profit-Driven Health Care
The rising motion of working-class women today is not just resisting oppression and exploitation but is on a path to break the chains that...
Demands for Basic Needs and the Electoral Process
Editors’ Note: The following is an abridged version of the March 2019 Political Report on the Midterm Elections, from the Central Committee of the...
Women Demand a Transformed World
As the masses of the world struggle for what kind of future we will have – one of planetary destruction, war, poverty and a...
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 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...
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...
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: Strategy, Vision and the Way Forward
The election and actions of Donald Trump have given rise to a broad debate about the future of our country. The millions who are...
The Special Revolutionary Role of Women
The 2016 electoral environment in the United States reflected the stance that women were second-class citizens. Even though there was a female candidate for...
On Syndicalism: An Interview with Nelson Peery
Editors Note: This interview was conducted by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers Media Project in July 2015.
First of all, syndicalism was the foundation...
Inside: Transformation of Society Requires Revolutionary Strategy
The goal of the revolutionaries is a peaceful, cooperative society, based on the material foundation of the new means of production. To do this,...
Women and the Fate of Society
There is a struggle breaking out, and women are on its front lines. This struggle is a response to extreme polarities of wealth and...
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...
From the Editors: Women at the Forefront of Leading the Struggles
March 8th is recognized the world over as International Women’s Day. So too, it is commemorated as International Working Women’s Day. That history cannot and...
Inside: Abolish Private Property
Eighty-five of the world’s richest billionaires possess more wealth (over one trillion dollars) than 3.5 billion of the planet’s poorest population, according to the...
International Woman’s Day 2014: Women’s Revolutionary Role
International Woman’s Day serves as an excellent opportunity to celebrate the continuing and historic contributions of outstanding women in every field of human life....
Inside: American Dream Betrayed
In 2008, President Obama ignited the compassionate soul of the American people who dared to hope and dream with him that he could bring...
International Women’s Day– March 8, 2013
The seeds of the battle for the emancipation of women were sown in the fight for the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of...
Inside: The Elections and Our Actual Tasks
What now? The elections are over, and after corporate America has spent over 6 billion dollars on the presi-dential elections alone, and after the...
The Rising Brutality of the State Against Women
New forms of violence have emerged, and in some countries advances toward equality and freedom from violence previously made by women have been eroded...
