By Gordon McWilliams As the United States experiences a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s important to look at how other countries have combated this virus and have basically returned to their normal lives, so that we can adapt based on what policies do, and do not, work. Cuba, an island nation of over 11 million citizens, has taken […]
By Tony Pecinovsky False premises inevitably lead to false conclusions. This is my takeaway from reading (and re-reading!) Rod Dreher’s one-sided, ahistorical article “Down with Card-Carrying Communists” in the American Conservative (Nov. 19, 2020). Full disclosure: I am a proud card-carrying member of the Communist Party, USA and have been for 23 years. Speaking of cards, Dreher’s article, like all anti-communism, is […]
BY MARGOT RATHKE AND SARAH ANDERSON Washington is abuzz with ideas for actions the Biden-Harris administration could take that would not require congressional approval. One of the buzziest: canceling student debts owed to the federal government. The Department of Education owns about 92 percent of the $1.6 trillion in student loans Americans owe. Many legal scholars say the department has the authority to wipe these […]
Fighting for reforms is an essential feature of the battle against capitalism. However, without the conscious, purposeful activity of a revolutionary working-class party, this essential work is likely to remain in the arena of reforms, that is, it will not touch the power of capital. I was reminded of this recently when speaking with a comrade about activists who were […]
OKINAWA, Japan—The Okinawa prefectural government on Nov. 30 announced that 72 coronavirus infection cases were newly confirmed among the U.S. forces stationed in the there. This is the largest number of cases in a single day, making the total number of cases among the U.S. military in Japan increase to 564. The 72 U.S. military servicemen came to Japan from […]
By Turner Roth The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is trying to privatize public housing, but the residents of Fulton Houses in Chelsea aren’t putting up with it. Members of the New York Young Communist League; Communist Party USA; Movement School, a project of Organize for Justice; and Justice for All Coalition stood with the tenants at a rally […]
By Taryn Fivek What can we learn from the work of Frederick Engels 200 years after his birth? Perhaps we can speak of what compelled this author to join the Communist Party to begin with — a desire to struggle for socialism in the world as it is today. In Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, Engels denounces the approach to socialism he […]
By Jamal Rich WASHINGTON, D.C.– In late October, the Claudia Jones School for Political Education and the New Dawn Podcast co-hosted scholar Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and artist Boots Riley for an evening conversation titled Anti-capitalism In These Times. Burden-Stelly is a scholar of political theory, political economy, and intellectual history. She is currently a visiting scholar with the Race and Capitalism Project and […]