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Guía para la perspectiva moral en una sociedad capitalista.
The New Red Scare Lately, one cannot help but notice that despite the “end of history” and the total discrediting, debunking, destruction, looting, pillaging and castration of Marxism, anti-communist propaganda is actually on the rise both in the United States and especially Europe, to a level rivaling the era of McCarthyism. The European establishment, through…
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Policías de Detroit asesinan a una niña de 7 años.
Aiyana Stanley Jones, age seven, was struck in the head and neck by a cop’s bullet while laying on a couch in her family home. Surprise, surprise, the murdered child just happened to be black. Detroit police raided the Jones house at 12:40 am, without knocking, by throwing a flash bang grenade through an unopened…
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El derrame de petróleo de BP en el Golfo
The impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be felt for decades to come. With the spill generating from 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of oil a day, it now surpasses the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989 and is called the worst environmental disaster in American History. The spill started from an…
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Los ex prisioneros también tienen derechos.
The Ghetto as Social Control The concrete jungle in America goes by many names—the “inner-city,” the “ghetto” and “hood.” To a few million Americans this is what we call home, and not just Black and Latinos, but whites and Asian immigrants as well. The capitalist state has organized a concentrated effort in order to deprive…
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La vivienda es un derecho humano: ¡Más financiación para la vivienda pública!
Earlier this week, with the imperialist media caught in a flurry over the sinking of a South Korean warship allegedly by a North Korean submarine, a reactionary stab at the working class is making its way in the halls of Congress. The Preservation, Enhancement and Transformation Act (PERTA), a bill sponsored by HUD, would allocate…
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El declive de los sindicatos: el derecho laboral y su subversión.
Low Union Representation Trade unions have long been one of the only ways that workers have of advocating for themselves within the confines of capitalist production. Yet, in recent years, the number of those workers who are represented in unions has fallen. In 2006, 7.4% of American workers were unionized, which is down from over…
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Reseña: “Sustitutas”
Basic Plot In a world where people live their lives vicariously by manipulating cyborgs called “surrogates” from the comfort of their own homes, FBI agent Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) is put to the task of tracking down a killer wielding a weapon which has the capacity to both kill a surrogate and its operator, all…
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Reseña: “V de Vendetta”
“Terrorist vs. Freedom Fighter” as a Plot Device The 2005 film version of V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue and produced by the Wachowski Brothers is the most obvious example of the increasing desire for heroic cinematic revolutionaries. Films nowadays never hesitate to have the protagonist take the form of a revolutionary who is…
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El día en que el socialismo salvó al mundo
The Soviet Red Army Won World War II When people say the Greatest Generation, they usually refer to the parents of the baby-boomers who fought in Europe during World War II. What we rarely hear is the story of their Eastern counterparts in the Soviet Union. Apart from anti-communism, American jingoism prevents us from acknowledging…
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Reseña: “El Holocausto revolucionario: Vive libre o muere”, de Glenn Beck.”
Part VI of VI: The Chinese Great Leap Forward Glenn Beck ends his series with an attack on the Chinese Revolution. He claims that the Chinese leader Mao Zedong was the greatest mass murderer of all time, even worse than Hitler. To back up this ridiculous comparison he uses a very questionable source that has…
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