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Head General Fired from Afghanistan Occupation
The Facts The resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, the US/NATO commander of the Afghanistan War, has been accepted by President Obama amidst a controversy of remarks he made in an interview with Rolling Stone. Within 36 hours of the uproar over the magazine article, Obama had dismissed his General. On June 30th, General David Patraeus…
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Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Ain’t Gonna Clean This Up
I know that for the past thirty years, at least since the Reagan Administration, the US has perused a policy of “let the market fix it,” “deregulate” and other such policies. These policies are wrongheaded and have led to the largest human made environmental disaster in the history of the these United States. I speak…
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Resources Discovered in Afghanistan and Zimbabwe
Within a few days of each other, US media has reported tremendous mineral wealth in Afghanistan and in Zimbabwe, two countries noted for their poverty. In the case of Afghanistan, The New York Times reported that “nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan” had been discovered, while in Zimbabwe, “New mining in Zimbabwe…
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Myths Concerning Non-Revisionist Marxism-Leninism
In our time as revolutionaries, we at the APL have been exposed to a great many myths propagated about our ideology, our historical perspective and our method of work. In this essay, we will address some common misconceptions concerning our ideology as put forward by our opponents and offer a rebuttal for each. The first…
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We Need a New Deal for Renewable Energy
Last Tuesday, 15 June 2010, President Obama addressed the nation, his first address to the American People from the Oval Office. It was a rousing speech, I will give the President that. That having been said, the President did not lay out a concrete plan on how to make this country energy independent, or how…
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Success at the Second Congress of the APL
In a week filled with a host of bad news for the working class of America, a bright ray of sun has started to peak from behind the darkness of the dawn. The American Party of Labor concluded its Second General Congress in Atlanta Georgia on Monday, 14 June 2010. Included with some much-needed reforms…
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Conspiracy Theories Continued
What Are Conspiracy Theories? Whether you use the internet frequently, attend protests or activist group meetings, or you are just the social type who strikes up conversations with people while waiting in a long line, chances are you’ve met them. They are the few, the informed, the truly enlightened among the mass of sheep of…
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Review: “The Road to Serfdom” by F. Hayek
Friedrich von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom is a popular book from the Austrian School of economics. It is the scripture of classical liberalism and the right, much more so than Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. The thesis of the book is that all forms of collectivism and socialism do not work and that…
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Role of the Individual in History
Because Marxists recognise historical necessity, bourgeois ideologists often accuse them of denying the role of individuals, of great people, of leaders, in history. These accusations are unfounded, for Marxism far from underestimates the role of the individual. Although Marxists maintain that individuals cannot change the objective course of history at will, they admit that the…
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Statement on Israel’s Attack on an Aid Flotilla
But attendance to the strike was mostly from students, academicians, artists, and immigrant workers. In general, life in the NYC was not stopped; the city was still working. Bus services and subways were working. One could not feel it was a day of strike. Weaknesses in the struggle of the working class is apparent. Although…
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