By Heather Hough Every modern generation has its own brand name and its own set of special challenges and issues related to its time for coming of age. But unlike a caste or class system, ranking them in any order of quality is pure folly. They all must live, survive, and thrive — or not — in their own time. […]

On January 29, Senate leader Chuck Schumer, known as a rather moderate liberal from New York, tweeted, “Today would be a great day for President Biden and Vice President Harris to #CancelStudentDebt.” This pointed demand was followed by Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) taking to Twitter two days later and calling for the same action to be carried out by the […]

BY: TONY PECINOVSKY A recent CNN article outrageously tried to put communists who were victims of U.S. government attacks in 1948 in the same boat with the criminal Trumpites who staged the attempted coup at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The headline on the Feb. 3 article by Eliott C. McLaughlin read: “With coup label, Capitol rioters join communist party in plotting […]

BY:DARRELL RANKIN Frederick Engels (1820–95) and his close friend Karl Marx (1818–83) dedicated their lives to prepare the working class for its revolutionary future. As Vladimir Lenin put it, the two “taught the working class to know itself and be conscious of itself, and they substituted science for dreams.” In Engels’ and Marx’s formative years, the newly forming industrial urban working […]

BY:AMIAD HOROWITZ From the U.S., to the European Union and on to India, the neoliberal powers are in crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it death, illness, instability, never-ending lockdowns, and financial disaster. Major urban centers from Seattle to London and Paris have erupted in mass protests from all sorts of groups unhappy with their bourgeoise overlords and their […]