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American Party of Labor Condemns US Occupation of the Republic of Haiti
The American Party of Labor on Thursday condemned the recent deployment of more than 10,000 US soldiers and military personnel to the Republic of Haiti following last week’s devastating earthquake. The American Party of Labor considers the deployment of over 10,000 soldiers of the United States armed forces, including the seizure of Haiti’s central airport…
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MLK Day: A Dream Lost
Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights leaders, was chosen to receive a federal holiday. The answer lies in history: Martin Luther…
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The Earthquake Disaster & Imperialism in Haiti
A History of Colonialism On Tuesday, the 12th of January 2010, the Republic of Haiti was struck by a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake, which hit its capital city directly. The death toll may exceed 100,000 in one of the most violent earthquakes to hit the Caribbean in 200 years. The Republic of Haiti is the…
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Who Will Lead the Transition to Socialism?
Who Are the Actors in the Transition to Socialism? Essential to the realization of socialism is a vision of the class and social forces that have to be assembled to win political power. At the center of this assemblage is the multiracial, multinational, male-female, multigenerational working class. While we should resist the idea that the…
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Caught Red-Handed: the “Hypocrite” Argument & the Boycott Method
One of the issues a revolutionary has to not only accept, but address with relevant political points, is the practice of people trying to catch them in contradiction. Whether it’s someone that the person knows well or just a passing acquaintance, as soon as leftist politics become apparent, the other person proceeds to try and…
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Right-Wingers Support Fascist Military Coup in U.S.
Reaction is Growing In recent months since the election of President Obama, the first black President of the United States, right-wing and racist/racialist movements have sprung up on the political stage with renewed vigor. While this is nothing new, the racial component being mixed in draws even larger crowds of so-called “closet” racists. Indeed,…
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Review of “Avatar”
(Warning: Minor Spoilers) Avatar, the latest film by James Cameron, lives up to the hype. Throughout James Cameron’s career he has created blockbuster after blockbuster, from Aliens in 1986 to the famous Titanic in 1997. Cameron’s movies usually are long, expensive epics that combine humor, action, adventure and of course, romance, notwithstanding the groan-inducing romantic…
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Obama’s War Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke. Alfred Nobel was a 19th century military-industrialist who invented dynamite as a weapon. He was called the “Merchant of Death” throughout his career. The fact that he used his fortune to create a prize, and of all things a “peace prize” would be humorous if it…
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The Question of the State
No question has been more confused by capitalist scholars than that of the state, since no other question is as vital to the interests of the ruling classes. Capitalist ideologists picture the state as some kind of “supernatural force” standing above society that has existed since time immemorial. It supposedly has no class character and…
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Review of “Fast Food Nation”
What Is the Error of this Book? This book will doubtlessly go down in history as the favorite palm book of the elitist, petty-bourgeois American social democrats and liberals. If you are looking for a manual on how to look down on the working class for not having enough money or education to “know” to…
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