By Dinae Anderson I am the daughter Of the slaves, the workers The woman, the mother I have been the daughter of chains and I shall break the cycle today I can go on and on About the oppressor’s wrong And the pigs that kill my brothers That brings tears of sadness to our …
by Cam Aviles So this poem to me is highly layered and reveals A LOT about me and A LOT about “The Struggle.” Every time I spit to crowds I ask myself: Do they see the images? Can they make out the images I am trying to convey? So this is a visual that people …
Why this blog? The United States has never been an easy place to be a socialist, communist, or revolutionary. Over the last 80 years, the US government spent millions on anti-communist propaganda, as well as billions more on arming anti-communist movements around the world. From the time we are born, this propaganda bombards our psyche …
By Caleb T. Maupin The media in the United States is private property. FOX news is owned by Australian Billionaire Rupert Murdoch. MSNBC is owned by General Electric, a huge corporation that makes billions annually in military contracts and has brutally suppressed unions. The capitalist media largely reinforces and preaches ideas that serve the interests … Continue reading
Can’t Jail the Revolution contributor and Workers World Party member Caleb Maupin debates a former US diplomat on the nature of the CIA. Continue reading
by Wilden Wulle People have begun a grassroots, fight aimed at stopping a newly proposed strip-mining operation in eastern Utah. Tar sands are planned to be mined and processed to generate oil but extracting oil from tar sands is much more complex than conventional oil recovery. The group Utah Tar Sands Resistance plans to put … Continue reading
by S. Williams To many, the term “Dialectical Materialism” seems like jargon, a connection of two words which are both confusing and unfamiliar. Yet the concept is fundamental to understanding everything from the boiling of water to the revolutionary transformation of society. To understand what dialectical materialism means, we often like to define both “dialectical” … Continue reading
The following first appeared on Alice Walker’s blog, http://alicewalkersgarden.com/2013/03/poem-the-good-ones-for-hugo-chavez/ The Good Ones For Hugo Chavez March 5, 2013 ©2013 by Alice Walker The good ones who listen to women to children and the poor die too soon, their lives bedeviled by opposition: our hearts grieve for them. This was the world my father knew. A … Continue reading
this statement of solidarity and condolences to the Venezuelan people first appeared at workers.org Workers World Party and Can’t Jail the Revolution join the Venezuelan people in grief over the loss of the great revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez. The death of a larger-than-life leader like Chávez is hard to take. Millions around the world will … Continue reading
by Ben Carroll This article first appeared in Workers World newspaper at workers.org Raleigh, N.C. — Nearly two years since tens of thousands of students and workers occupied the Wisconsin state Capitol and a year since Quebec’s students started a months-long strike that defeated austerity measures, students and other North Carolina youths held an organizing … Continue reading
by Desiree DeLoach The clock had just struck midnight and it was officially Saturday, February 23, the 1,000th day of incarceration without trail for PFC Bradley Manning and I had just written my first letter to Mumia the previous morning. Two white male NYPD officers entered the A-train car that four friends and I were … Continue reading
by Caleb Maupin New York City, like the rest of the United States, is enduring a barrage of police brutality and terror. New York City is known for its policy called “Stop & Frisk.” Any police officer is allowed to stop anyone at any time and “frisk” them for weapons. Nearly all of those who … Continue reading
by S. Williams Philadelphia, the first U.S. capital, holds title as the poorest city in the U.S. with a population over one million people. Over 27 percent, including more than a third of the children, live in poverty. Half of Philadelphians struggle to put food on their tables. Areas in North Philadelphia are as bleak as post- industrial Detroit. Rusted warehouses and … Continue reading
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