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Detienen al portavoz del Partido Comunista de los Trabajadores de Túnez.
Hamma Hammami, spokesman for the illegal Tunisian Workers Communist Party. [Translated from Arabic] [Postscript – Hammami has been released from prison after Ben Ali fled the country due to continuing protests. The struggle in Tunisia continues.] The police arrested Comrade Hamma Hammami, the spokesman of the Tunisian Workers Communist Party, after storming his house…
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Actualización sobre Haití
Just a few days into the new year, the situation in Haiti is dire. One year ago, on January 12th, a magnitude 7.0 ravaged the Caribbean nation, killing an estimated 230,000, and rendering over a million people homeless. While officially, leadership of Haiti falls to President René Garcia Préval and the Haitian government, most authority…
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Reseña: La Guardia Nacional y “Warrior” de Kid Rock”
The most blatant and disgusting use of music by an advertisement has to be the National Guard recruitment ad that uses Kid Rock’s neo-fascistic fantasy theme “Warrior.” The ad goes back and forth between images of soldiers in military vehicles, soldiers in disaster relief situations, an idealized view of soldiers in their civilian lives, a…
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Reseña del libro: “Privilegio, poder y diferencia”
Allan G. Johnson’s book Privilege, Power, and Difference is a useful tool for understanding how systems of privilege work in contemporary capitalism. In a frank and accessible manner, he lays bare a framework for understanding how power relations and comparative dominance work within society and fall back on the ingrained bourgeois ideological norms of individualism,…
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El apartheid en Arizona se extiende
With the killing of the DREAM Act, states are now moving to implement similar laws to those in Arizona, signifying a reactionary swing to the right which threatens the lives and livelihoods of many Hispanic, Latino and Amerindian workers. Immigrant Fingerprinting One particular measure designed to specifically target immigrant workers for repression is the ICE…
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Análisis: Call of Duty Black Ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) is yet another first-person shooter fetishizing imperialist war and allowing children to be their own one-man death-squads in a virtual world. America’s youth will be tossing grenades, firing automatic weapons, slitting throats and even occasionally committing torture on another battlefield waged across the living rooms of America and, when…
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Resolución de apoyo a las fuerzas revolucionarias en Ecuador
[Update Jan. 15, 2011: “The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE) was born in August, 1964 in rebellion against the revisionist leadership of the Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE) and its endorsement of the then Soviet-line of peaceful transition to socialism, the parliamentary road and peaceful coexistence with imperialism. Over the years the PCMLE, though…
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Declaración de solidaridad con la huelga de prisioneros de Georgia.
Sign the Statement! A Moment for Movement-Building: Statement of Solidarity with Georgia Prisoner Strike On December 9, 2010, thousands of prisoners in at least six Georgia state prisons initiated the largest prisoner strike in U.S. history, uniting across racial boundaries to demand an immediate end to the cruel and dehumanizing conditions that damage prisoners, their…
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Teoría posmoderna: Las cadenas de la verdad ilusoria
In any sort of theoretical discussion, be it in the realm of history, psychology, philosophy or sociology, there is always the potential for one to engage a debate by dismissing the very validity of having a debate in the first place. Agnosticism, or the assertion that “since we cannot know everything anyway, then why even…
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Reseña: “Tiempos modernos” (1936)
Modern Times (1936), written, directed and starring Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp, is widely regarded as a classic film which, although mostly silent and black-and-white, effortlessly entertains contemporary audiences. Plot summary (Contains Spoilers) The film begins with Chaplin’s well-known character of the Tramp, as a factory worker laboring on an assembly line. Eventually the stress…
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