Billions of people around the world, without exaggeration, remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They remember him for his academic excellence at Morehouse College where he earned his baccalaureate degree; at Crozer Theological Seminary where he earned his bachelors of divinity; and at Boston University where he earned his doctorate. He was a minister of the gospel and an activist. […]
The outgoing Trump administration is determined to create maximum problems for its successor. On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a number of policy directives designed to leave a violent extreme-right stamp on U.S. foreign policy for years. One of the most mendacious and hypocritical policies concerns socialist Cuba. It returns Cuba to the U.S. list of State Sponsors […]
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, during the congressional certification hearing for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, a violent fascist coup attempt was made in the streets of D.C. and on Capitol Hill in an effort to reverse the defeat of Donald Trump. The coup attempt appears to have been coordinated throughout the country. Fascist Trump supporters from the likes […]
If you watch the video of the murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, its reality could not be more clear. The state of Ohio is an open-carry state. Tamir Rice openly carried what turned out to be a toy gun, and the police officers who were called to the scene drove aggressively over a playground, jumped out the car door, and […]
Yesterday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol was nothing less than a white supremacist insurrection. Organized by Trump himself along with Giuliani, Bannon, and their big-business backers its goal was to disrupt Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote and overturn the November election. It was a criminal act of sedition and should be treated as such. A full investigation must […]
Editor’s note: We present 10 excellent books for your consideration, in no particular order. Happy reading! 1. Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, by Vijay Prashad In Washington Bullets, Vijay Prashad writes about the history of CIA- and IMF-backed coups from the onset of the Cold War to the present in Guatemala, Venezuela, Congo, Indonesia, Brazil, and elsewhere. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]