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Editorial: Rising Waters
“I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.” Bob Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” The rain is falling very hard indeed. In a move that might very well signal the reversal of the social-democratic trend in Latin America, open fascist Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil on October…
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International Vigils Organized to Bring Attention to Irish Genocide
People will gather in over 97 locations across more than 13 nations this Saturday, November 3rd, 2018, to hold commemorations, vigils, and masses in commemoration of the Irish Genocide of 1845-1852. Commonly referred to as the “Great Famine, Great Hunger, or Irish Potato Famine”, the purpose of this year’s commemorations is to propagate the findings and…
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No Erasure of LGBTQ+ People!
On Sunday, October 20th, the Trump administration announced that it was considering adopting a strict definition of “sex,” as it applies to anti-discrimination law. Under the proposed definition, gender will be considered fixed and immutable, with one’s gender assignment at birth only being changeable after genetic testing. For transgender, non-binary, and intersex people, such as…
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Statement of the American Party of Labor on the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
“National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Antisemitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. Antisemitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Antisemitism…
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Immigrant Rights are Human Rights: An Interview with Immigrant Rights Activists in St. Louis, Mo.
At a time when national tension concerning our southern border is at its zenith, those in progressive circles are beginning to ask “what is to be done?” To attempt to answer that, I met up with a group of working class activists from the Mexican immigrant community to ask what they feel about the issue.…
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Fascism is not in a single country… It is everywhere
Originally published in Evrensel (10/24/2018) by Nuray SANCAR This is also a time when the cry of ‘No Pasaran’ against Franco is heard. There is not only the experience of fascism but that of those fought against it. It was easy enough to regard fascism as a local defect which emerged in Germany and Italy, and as a…
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The Many Costs of American Education: An Interview with Working Class, Non-Traditional Student Gary Manning
Gary Manning is a non-traditional student attending a community college in Alabama. We sat down with him to discuss the intersection of the rising cost of college education and increasing numbers of students, traditional and non, returning to school to better their prospects in a job market we’re told is booming. This has forced, as…
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Voter Suppression Against Minority Workers
As the midterm cycle comes to a close, the amount of people able to actually vote has decreased. This decline in registered voters is not out of apathy of the American public, or because the country is full of people who have had their legal right to vote taken away. The decrease in registered voters…
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Honduras Workers Victims of Imperial Racket
Across the United States, a conversation about a caravan of over 1,500 people from Honduras is on the lips of nearly every American and is saturated in our national media. The workers from Honduras are heading to the United States through Mexico via Guatemala. Both sides of the imperialist coin that is the American political…
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Labour Party of Iran: A Communist Approach to the Question of the Right of Nations to Self-Determination in the Era of Imperialism
In theory: In his analysis of the right to self-determination of nations in the era of the old colonial system, Lenin had a harsh confrontation with the national chauvinists of the Second International who defended the rule of imperialist Europe over its colonies. They saw the colonization of other nations as a natural right of…
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