By Paul Street - February 26, 2010

The dodgy, authoritarian, and messianic-militarist American right has long had a better understanding than the U.S. “left” of the need to stay focused and energized on a daily basis beneath and beyond elections. It walks forcefully with its potent noise machine into the activism and anger void created by progressive de-mobilization, depression, and corporate-Democratic captivity. Popular resentment abhors a vacuum and the hard right is more than happy to fill the empty space.

par Federico Fuentes - 2 décembre 2009

Venezuela lance l'appelle pour tenir le 5ieme internationale, pour la construction "d'un socailisme du 21 siecle".

By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF - January 19, 2010

For those who believe that South America is in the grip of some kind of left revolutionary fervor, this week’s election in Chile may have come as a surprise...[I]t appears that conservative billionaire Sebastian Piñera has ousted the ruling center left Concertación...It is a stunning upset in light of the fact that the right has not won an election in Chile for fifty years.

By JOSEPH GROSSO - November 10, 2009

"Our verdict this morning cheers the hearts of tyrants throughout the world, and the result will be celebrated by King Capitol in its drunken feast of flowing wine from Chicago to St. Petersburg…The oppressed of earth are writhing in their legal chains. The giant Labor is awakening. The masses, aroused from their stupor, will snap their petty chains like reeds in the whirlwind…"

--Albert Parsons

I. The Basis of the Credit System: The Art of Lending Money.

By Barry Grey - 18 September 2009

At its convention this week, the AFL-CIO chose a new president to replace the retiring John Sweeney...Like the man he replaces, [Richard] Trumka personifies the petty entrepreneurs and corporatists of the American trade union apparatus. His claim to fame is that as president of the United Mine Workers from 1982 to 1995 he presided over major defeats of the miners, givebacks and concessions to the mine owners, and the virtual destruction of what had been one of the most militant of American unions.

By Mike Davis - September 06, 2009

Here you have the governor [of California] and his gang of Republicans, and they're holding the people captive and threatening to shoot them one by one unless their demands for budget cuts and a new stage in the Republican fiscal revolution occurs. And then on the other hand, you have the leadership of the Democratic Party...and they're saying "Oh, no, no, no, don't shoot all the passengers, just shoot half the passengers."

37 years ago in Louisiana, 3 young black men were silenced for trying to expose continued segregation, systematic corruption, and horrific abuse in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation called Angola. In 1972 and 1973 prison officials charged Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox, and Robert King with murders they did not commit and threw them into 6x9 ft. cells in solitary confinement, for over 36 years. Robert was freed in 2001, but Herman and Albert remain behind bars.

By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF - August 14-16, 2009

A worrying consideration for the Colombian elite is that [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chávez may have an ideological impact not only upon ordinary Colombians, but also those Colombians living in Venezuela. For years, Colombian immigrants have fled the war in their country, fleeing across the border and seeking greater economic opportunity. Unfortunately for the Colombian elite, many émigrés have returned to Colombia and helped to organize Bolivarian movements at home.

July 14, 2009 - Rights & Democracy for Iran

"The response of the far left parties to the Iran protests has been either silence, a noncommittal recitation of the facts, or an accusation that US machinations are or will be involved. None of them have endorsed the protests. Why is this?"

--A British Leftist

Part 9 of 13

Chapter 7: Job — Competition and performance.

Lecture and Discussion

Speaker: Joseph Patrick of the German Marxist quarterly GegenStandpunkt

What the World Economic Crisis Teaches about Capitalism

7 PM Thursday, September 3, 2009
522 Valencia @ 16th Street
San Francisco, California 94110

Against the hopes and concerns for the speedy recovery of “our” economy

By Dennis Rahkonen - July 10th, 2009

The savagely exploitative, intensely destructive Walmart labor relations model dominates U.S. life, and everything we buy is produced abroad in oppressive settings where women and children toil long hours for mere pennies. We (and certainly they) are being ground into the dust as a tiny minority of private “entrepreneurs” live high on the hog, via stolen wealth that properly should be used to improve everyone’s living standards.