By Maicol David Lynch and Shawn Shah NEW YORK—As early youth voter turnout breaks records in state after state, Young Communist League USA organizing committees are taking to the streets for voter registration, mutual aid, protests, and marches, and they’re putting together Marxist book clubs. “Our goal is to not only build a large organization,” says K. Gandankin, a YCL leader […]

By Jarvis Tyner Support of a broad anti-Trump coalition is building momentum for the Biden-Harris ticket in this historic 2020 presidential election, now just days away. If the effects of important grassroots work continues, and the huge Democratic registration and early voting tallies up, then Trump’s monstrous reign will end. This is not just a battle of Democrats vs. Republicans; […]

Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca, presidential and vice-presidential candidates, respectively, for Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS), scored an overwhelming first-round election victory on Oct. 18. They won 53% of the vote, showing strength in cities and rural areas alike. MAS was formerly headed by deposed President Evo Morales. The Supreme Election Tribunal certified the voting results based on exit […]

By C.J. Atkins In the middle of the last century, Marxist economist Victor Perlo described the U.S. economy as an “empire of high finance.” If he were writing today, he’d probably update his assessment to say U.S. capitalism has also become an “empire of high technology.” The U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust essentially dances around that conclusion in a […]

“Es un derecho tener un techo” (It’s a right to have a roof over your head), chanted the crowd gathered at Foley Square, just in front of City Hall in Manhattan this past Thursday. Why the protest? After all, New York State governor Andrew Cuomo declared on September 28 that a moratorium on COVID-19–related evictions would be extended until January 1, 2021. […]

By GUILLERMO TEILLIER DEL VALLE It was 1952 and Salvador Allende was facing his first presidential campaign with few resources. He had the support of the Socialist Party, many of whose militants supported Carlos Ibáñez and the Communist Party, which was illegal and acted clandestinely. They acted as the National Front of the People. Expectations had been raised, as women […]

That traditional symbol of justice, the balanced scale held by the Roman goddess of justice Iustitia, represents for African Americans nothing close to reality in our current “justice” system. On Wednesday a Kentucky grand jury met to decide whether the three white police officers who raided Breonna Taylor’s Louisville apartment and killed her on March 13 were responsible for her […]