Category: Politics

Labor, LGBTQ+, Politics, Transgender

Bone of Contention: Socialists & the LGBT Community

An Epilogue updating this post appears at the end. Back in college one of the organizations on campus was the Revolutionary Student Brigade (RSB), a short-lived youth group aligned the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Being a socialist and gay, I inquired about their position on gay rights. I can’t recall what they said exactly, but it was something along the lines that homosexuality is … Continue reading Bone of Contention: Socialists & the LGBT Community

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Labor, Politics

The Proven Power of Labor

I recently stumbled upon some videos on YouTube so timely and important I decided to share them here. They present compelling lessons about power of labor, something that might strike some as an oxymoron. Labor? Powerful? It is not a crisis of the capacity of workers to struggle. It is a crisis of union leadership. Farrell Dobbs Just under 11% of workers in the United … Continue reading The Proven Power of Labor

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Labor, Politics

The Truth Must Not Only Be The Truth, It Must Also Be Told

An exciting new resource for working people is now available with the launch this week of a new website for Pathfinder Press. The title to this post is a quote from Cuban Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and is Pathfinder’s motto. The publishing house distributes over 800 titles covering the history and lessons of working-class and revolutionary movements. Pathfinder is unique from other publishers in its … Continue reading The Truth Must Not Only Be The Truth, It Must Also Be Told

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Labor, Politics, Trump

So Much Drama, So Little Change. Time for a Labor Party

A violent mob invades the U.S. Capitol leaving people dead and wounded. The House votes an historic second impeachment. A raucous, divisive presidency ends. Pandemic deaths reach 400,000 while vaccinations sputter. 27.5 million have no health insurance. 12.6 million are unemployed, with millions more bureaucratically excluded from this official count. Over half a million are homeless. All this didn’t start with the election of Donald … Continue reading So Much Drama, So Little Change. Time for a Labor Party

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Politics, Trump

Death Threats, Even Facetious, Don’t Get a Pass

I was watching NBC this morning and see that Trump attorney Joe Digenova made the statement captioned here about Christopher Krebs, Trump’s former cybersecurity chief in the Department of Homeland Security. This is a clip of Digenova speaking on Newsmax. If he hasn’t already, I’m sure Digenova will tweet or issue a statement saying he wasn’t serious. He’ll say he was kidding or being sarcastic, … Continue reading Death Threats, Even Facetious, Don’t Get a Pass

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Guest Author, Politics, Trump

Why Almost 70 Million Voters Chose Trump

Introduction As this is written on Thursday morning after Election Day, there’s no winner yet. Ballot counting continues and it appears that Joe Biden will win both the popular vote and the Electoral College. I’ve believed for some time that Biden would win. I wasn’t necessarily expecting a landslide as some were projecting, but I definitely wasn’t expecting it to be this close either. Which … Continue reading Why Almost 70 Million Voters Chose Trump

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Labor, Politics

Book Review: ‘In Defense of the US Working Class’

The presidential debate between Trump and Biden on Tuesday night was a dumpster fire next to a train wreck. It’s all the talk now on cable TV, but really more was revealed than what most commentators are focused on. To me the debate exposed vividly the total bankruptcy of the two-party system. The two parties and the system they serve — the employers and their … Continue reading Book Review: ‘In Defense of the US Working Class’

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Labor, Politics, Racial Justice

Black Lives Matter, Violence & Marxism

George Floyd’s murder in Milwaukee under a policeman’s knee on May 25, 2020, sparked massive and mostly peaceful anti-racism protests worldwide by millions under the banner of Black Lives Matter. Millions poured into the the streets. Across the United States, there were more than 550 marches, rallies and vigils (photos). There were also protests in at least 40 countries beyond the U.S. DW News out … Continue reading Black Lives Matter, Violence & Marxism

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Labor, Politics

A plague o’ both your houses!

Ginsburg’s death and McConnell’s hypocrisy is the final straw. At 67 I’ve seen the country rocked many times: two Kennedy assassinations, Martin Luther King assassination, Vietnam War, Kent State, Watergate, Three Mile Island, 9/11, 2009-2010 economic crisis, mass shootings, the Trump election, COVID-19 and zillions of other events in between. Now comes the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and McConnell’s patently hypocritical rush to replace … Continue reading A plague o’ both your houses!

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