Time to Sit Down! Demand Socialization of Finance! As in the US and France in 1936-37 and again in France in 1968, today Republic workers in Chicago are...
Visit _www.tdu.org_ (http://www.tdu.org) for full text and read all the tributes ... The Rank and File Remembers Ron Carey December 15, 2008: Teamster...
Given the mass murder by Israel against the civilian population of Gaza, we should call on all "progressive" governments to break diplomatic ties with Israel. ...
It is rare to read a defense of sweatshops. Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times (Jan 15,09) writes: "When I defend sweatshops, people ask me would you like...
Business Week magazine (Dec. 29) has an article entitled: "Bernanke's Backdoor Bailouts." While all of us have been focused on the 700 billion dollar loan...
The formerly anti-semitic British National Party has expressed support to Israel in the war against the Palestinians in Gaza. Ruth Sneed of the Board of...
Thousands of years ago in Egypt peasants were ordered to build a pyramid for the Pharoah. But they couldn't grow any crops if they were building pyramids, so...
Greetings from Joanne Forman in New Mexico. Love this bit!! I've had good luck with one of my little political education tropes: I hold up a dollar bill and...
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A German, a Frenchman, and a Ecuadorian were discussing a painting of Adam and Eve in Paradise. The German said: "Look at the perfect bodies: she is thin, he...
ATTENTION ALL BANK ROBBERS: YOU TOO CAN OWN YOUR OWN MULTI-NATIONAL!!!! The new government subsidy program will help you to B.Y.O.B. (Buy Your Own Bank.) You...
Citibank stock is around $2 a share....Now's the time to decorate your apartment with this new kind of wallpaper. Assuming a stock certificate for one share of...
It is clear that a Soup Kitchen will be necessary to help feed the hungry hordes of unemployed speculators and Madoff investors. After the due consideration,...
As General Motors Co. lost $30.9 billion dollars last year, the company clearly needs a new product that will fit into the market in a depression. My modest...
New products are needed if American manufacturers are to survive: I suggest General Motors begin producing hamburgers. Even in a Depression Americans will eat...
AIG and Citibank have become zombie banks...Soon GM will join the ranks of the zombie monsters of walking dead companies. Bernard Madoff is an obvious copy of...
Dear Earl, Your description is very good. You should add that the zombies our sucking OUR blood with OUR tax money given to them by the US government (Bush and...
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Aporrea 3/9 Chavez's words are a declaration of war against the workers, according to Orlando Chirino and CCURA who reject Chavez's declarations of President...
SIDOR, the largest steel plant in the Caribbean (4.3 million tons in 1997) is being nationalized by the Chavez government. 20% is already owned by the...
Fri. a.m. BRAVO!! As one who has NEVER owned a car, and have used public transit all my life, I APPLAUD!!! ALSO: WHAT TO DO WITH THE BANKS? TURN THEM INTO...
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Slogans like "Make the rich pay for the crisis" or just simply increasing their taxes sounds radical. Its the kind of idea always popular with social...
... These kind of "Common Agenda" meetings are typical of left reformism which brings together into "one big happy family" groups on the "Left" such as the...
Earl, you are right, from what I can see, at least for the older generation of leftists. I was at the Left Forum, successor to the Socialist Scholars...
Carl Davidson is trying to revive the ghost of Eduard Bernstein, who advocated the "peaceful road to Socialism" at the end of the 19th Century. Rosa Luxemburg...
Sat. p.m. 5/2/09. Greetings from New Mexico!! An immediate task is to present a definition of Socialism! That mythical being, the average person, thinks it...
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Venezuela: On May 5th, companero Argenus Vasquez, was murdered in front of his house. He was Secretary of Organization for the Toyota Workers Union. CCURA...
... Our aspiration is that the next May Day we will march totally independent of the goverment, of the bureaucracy, of the traditional bourgeosie, of the...
Dear Earl, Thank you for the information below. I have one question. The group CCURA uses the term Autonoma in their name. Is that term not usually used by...
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PERU:Lori Berenson gave birth to a baby boy yesterday in a Lima hospital after a caeserian operation. The baby´s name is Salvador Apari. She can keep the...