Supporters of imprisoned African American journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former member of the Black Panther Party, continue to wait hopefully for an imminent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals…. Read more »
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Top 12 reasons to vote socialist in ’08
Thanks to immigration, the United States is remarkably diverse in culture, religion, ethnicity, politics. You name it, we got it. And, in the current race to the White House, there… Read more »
Past the icon: what Che means to activists today
It’s such a turnoff when real people are turned into myth. As a kid, I hated how Doña Marina, Mayan translator, confidante, and lover of the conqueror Cortez, was portrayed… Read more »
Clara Fraser: Synthesizer of Marxism and feminism
What better fate can a person carve out than participation in the emancipation of humanity?” Clara Fraser posed this question and answered it by living bravely, with commitment, relish and… Read more »
Celia Hart — a voice silenced too soon
Tragically, on Sept. 7, 45-year-old Cuban revolutionary Celia Hart Santamaría was killed in a Havana car accident along with her brother Abel. The Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) and Radical Women… Read more »
The contradictions of Noam Chomsky
On top of earning the tribute “father of modern linguistics,” Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s most widely read left critics of U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky educates and often… Read more »
Bolivia: masses of people thwart fascist coup while Morales negotiates with the instigators
Bolivians sharply defended themselves and turned back a vicious rightwing coup attempt this last September. But the fight is not over. On one side are the workers and peasants, largely… Read more »
Throwing sand in the gears of Guantánamo
On the recent seventh anniversary of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, 12 percent of detainees languishing there were on hunger strike. Their demonstration was a powerful cry against… Read more »
From Puerto Rico to Harlem: an Afro-Latina’s sojourn
Revolutionary feminist and unionist Francisca Montero, of the Harlem-based New York City community chapter of Radical Women (RW), was interviewed by RW Organizer Emily Woo Yamasaki. Montero and Yamasaki can… Read more »
Why Obama Is No Socialist. Rush Limbaugh Got It Wrong.
A chorus of conservative pundits has been using the ‘S’ word to describe President Obama. During last fall’s presidential campaign, for example, media personality Rush Limbaugh crowed, “the American people… Read more »
