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Dear Friend, These are the days of “alternative facts” and nasty tweets as public policy, with the hard right in the catbird seat. They are also the days of tens… Read more »
Reports from Standing Rock
Days 6 and 7, November 20-21, 2016 – State warfare intensifies – solidarity builds Our final days representing Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party at Standing Rock were action-packed and… Read more »
The new “Red” scare: Islamophobia
Fearmongering, hysteria, intolerance, racism … yes, it’s yet another manufactured witch-hunt.
Malcolm X: Words to inspire and heal
February 21, 2015 marks 50 years since the assassination of Malcolm X—an extraordinary revolutionary leader, organizer and teacher. Malcolm’s clearheaded, uncompromising advocacy of Black liberation armed African Americans with tactics… Read more »
Freedom Socialist Party 10th Anniversary Conference: Clara’s Corner
“We’re going to have a double editorial page,” said Our Editor, “and we need a column. Who can write one?” “Oh, I can,” I said airily. Omigawd. The beginning is… Read more »
Freedom Socialist poetry: Homecoming
How your three daughters thought you were dying this time for sure, came home one summer night meeting in the airport at 4 a.m. to catch another flight up the… Read more »
POETRY — The Crazy Operator at the Switchboard
This must be a bee hive. And we are all busy as bees Filling the little black holes in the comb, Buzzing, buzzing. – These cords extend from our backbones…. Read more »
Clara’s Column
SIGMUND FREUD once groaned that he would never understand women. Well, Siggy, likewise, I’m sure. There are some men — and I speak particularly about radical men — whom I… Read more »
Kathy Saadat guest column
Dark & White in Color TO PARAPHRASE MARK TWAIN, recent reports on the political insignificance of minority women have been greatly exaggerated. We are not unimportant, not secondary, not mere… Read more »
