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Global Economy Teetering on the Brink
The American economy is like a cartoon character which has raced off of the edge of a cliff, suspended in midair with nothing to support it.
Crisis of Capitalism Hit Women Workers Hardest: Whatever Happened to Women’s Wage Equality?
Working women have been struggling for complete equality in the workplace for over a century.
USA: Revolution on the Horizon
The US political pendulum, which had swung so far to the right, is beginning to swing dramatically in the opposite direction. Years of crisis and instability have inexorably had an effect on consciousness. Sanders’ insurgent candidacy has put socialism in the headlines in an unprecedented way, reflecting the deep-seated discontent that has been slowly but surely percolating beneath the surface.
Iran, Ireland, and the US—The Lessons of Three Elections
In the last few days we have witnessed at least three elections, all of which bear witness to highly significant processes that are now moving with great speed. When the same—or very similar—processes repeat themselves in many countries, they can no longer be dismissed as accidents. They are the manifestations of the same phenomenon.
The United Nations: a Tool of Imperialism
At the 2015 British Labour Party conference, shortly after Jeremy Corbyn’s victory as party leader, Labour members voted in favor of a motion from Unite (Britain’s biggest union) to only support air strikes on Syria if they have United Nations (UN) backing. More recently, in the House of Commons vote to authorize this bombing, in the absence of UN support, Diane Abbott, a key Corbyn ally and Labour left-winger, urged caution, saying that “if some MPs are intent on military action, surely their first step should be to pressure Cameron to obtain some kind of UN resolution?”
The “Pinocchio Agreement” on Climate Change
The real result of the Paris climate talks is a promise to increase emissions from current levels, doing tremendous harm to the environment in the process. The capitalist powers do not admit this, of course. Instead, they declare that they have promised to cut emissions and save the environment. These politicians can make these claims without their noses growing thanks to the curious nature of the promises made.
Iowa Democratic Party Caucus Shows Need for Socialist Labor Party
Bernie Sanders, who identifies as a socialist and calls for a “political revolution against the billionaire class,” was defeated by Hillary Clinton by a mere 0.3%.
Five Years On: What Happened to the Arab Revolution?
Five years ago, without any organization, program, plan, or preparation, the Arab masses, in the words of Marx, stormed heaven. They brought down, in a matter of weeks, what had seemingly not moved an inch in decades of petitioning by NGOs and academic do-gooders. The colossal state apparatus, employing hundreds of thousands of spies, police officers, and army personnel, could only watch as the masses took over the streets.
Reformism, Revolution, and the Crisis of US Capitalism
Editorial for Socialist Appeal 92 – These days, it would seem that nearly everyone is a socialist of some sort or another. That was certainly not the case back when Socialist Appeal was founded fifteen years ago. To be sure, what most people understand as “socialism” at the moment is far from the fully revolutionary conception defended in the program at the back of our paper. But this marks a dramatic change in consciousness nonetheless.
What Trump Is and How to Fight Him
The serious bourgeois press, with the aid of bourgeois academics, is almost uniformly concluding that Trump is something like a “proto-fascist.” But this analysis has serious shortcomings.
Notes on the Global Economy: Drowning in Oil and Credit
Global markets gave fallen 7.1% since January 1, their worst start since 1970. George Soros, the renowned business magnate, says the situation developing in China reminds him of the period prior to the banking crisis of 2008.
The Communist: The Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.