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 […]
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 […]
By Ian Goodrum I don’t need to tell you what happened at the U.S. Capitol last week. Videos and pictures do a good enough job of that. We all saw the angry crowds massing in support of lame-duck President Donald Trump in Washington. We saw them break into the halls of Congress to overturn the certification of last November’s election, […]
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 […]
All eyes are on the city of Columbus, Ohio, after the December murders of two unarmed, law-abiding Black men by area police in less than three weeks. These two incidents are merely the tip of the iceberg. The systematic violence against people of color in this city has a long history. According to Mapping Police Violence, in relation to police killing […]
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 […]