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 […]
By Chauncey Robinson The nation is not out of the clutches of Trumpism just yet, and it may not be for some time. Although the Donald Trump-appointed General Services Administration (GSA) head, Emily Murphy, finally formally acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden’s win over Trump in the Nov. 3 election, the maneuvers by the outgoing president and his Republican allies to undermine […]
Yesterday the stock market hit 30,000 for the first time. After weeks of radio silence, Donald Trump appeared in the White House press room and gave a minute-long rant, extolling the numbers, even calling them “sacred.” Can you imagine? On the highest day ever recorded so far of U.S. COVID-19 cases, Trump trumpets a market rally instead of human lives. […]
By Maicol David Lynch “Political correctness has run amok on college campuses,” according to Ben Shapiro, a 34-year-old pro-Trump commentator who recently condemned the anti-fascist rallies held at universities across the nation over the last four years. These actions, organized by students themselves, have often prevented the public promotion of racist and transphobic doctrines by alt-right speakers. But the action stretched […]
By Jamal Rich The student debt crisis in the United States has reached a whopping $1.7 trillion, which sharpens the contradictions of so-called ‘American exceptionalism.’ After hosting an event with organizers from the Debt Collective and the Poor People’s Campaign, organizers from the Claudia Jones School for Political Education interviewed an organizer from the newly established D.C. Chapter of the Debt Collective on behalf of People’s […]
The votes have been counted. The election is over. Joe Biden won. Right? According to the law, the states will all certify their results and apportion their Electoral College electors between now and Dec. 8. According to the law, the Electoral College will meet on Dec. 14 and cast votes for their states—306 for Biden and 232 for Trump. According […]
As the saying goes, this was and is no ordinary election, or ordinary time. It is complex and contradictory. It will take a while to digest all the unfolding results and develop conclusions. The electoral defeat of Trump with all his deadly hate, division, and greed opens the door to a new period of struggle. Yet, Trump got many votes, […]