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60 MPGs by 2025
Echoing President Obama's recent call to ween the U.S. off oil, a coalition of almost three dozen local and national environmental groups are calling for a fuel economy standard of 60 miles-per-gallon...
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Presidential Order on Campaign Donations Could Counter Citizens United
In the case known as Citizens United, the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court essentially gave free reign to the wealthy and powerful to influence the political process by striking down...
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Does Official Washington Care about the Jobless, Really?
Original source: BlackCommentator.com Unemployment is up. Joblessness has increased for African Americans. Black women are being hit especially hard. The question now is whether the people running the...
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Reducing Global Energy Use
EarthTalk® E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: With all the talk of the need for safe, renewable energy sources, isn’t the elephant in the room really that we should use far less energy than...
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Cuban SEALs for Florida?
The debate continues: Was the killing of Osama bin Laden justified? Perhaps a rather useless debate since he is now most certainly dead. But despite their distance in time and space some recollections...
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Karl Marx on Eugen Dühring
Anti-Dühring is Engels' enduring criticism of the mishmash of philosophy, science, and socialism published in Germany by Eugen Dühring (1833-1921) in the middle of the 19th century as an alternative to...
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Challenging Ideological Hegemony: Taking on the Media
Original source: Diary of a Heartland Radical The media and political, economic, educational, religious, and entertainment institutions shape our consciousness. People are told, inspired, coerced, and...
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Students of the World, Unite!
In England when Parliament attempted to nearly triple the cost of tuition for university students last year, thousands took to the streets in mass protest. There were peaceful street demonstrations...
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The Road to the 2012 Elections (Part 2)
This episode is the second part of an extended interview in which we discuss the road to the 2012 elections with Communist Party political action commission chair Joelle Fishman. Podcast Powered By...
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There's No Recovery Without Job Recovery
The main issue in the 2012 elections is jobs. The main way to get the economy out of the current recession is job creation. The only way for real job is for a massive reconstruction of the country's...
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Republicans Defend Tax Breaks for Oil Companies
There's a big fight happening in Washington over oil company subsidies. Democrats want to end tax breaks for oil companies that have set records with $4 gas prices and the most expensive oil in world...
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Spain’s Tahrir Square
Spain’s people’s movement has finally awoken. La Puerta del Sol in Madrid is now the country’s Tahrir Square, and the "Arab Spring" has been joined by what is now bracing to become a long "European...
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Growing the Communist Party: Looking at Organizing Methods in a Historical...
Millions of Americans, especially young ones, prefer socialism to capitalism. The capitol domes in state after state ring with the voices of tens of thousands of labor activists and their allies. The...
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Reconsidering Democratic Centralism
In his article, "A Party of Socialism in the 21st Century," Sam Webb argues for dropping the term and the concept of democratic centralism as our main organizing principle. Terminology is of lesser...
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Unity is Not Compromise: Towards a Real Palestinian Strategy
As the Palestine Papers demonstrated, the major obstacle to a real, lasting and just peace in Palestine is the Israeli leadership's unwillingness to accept anything less than full domination over the...
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China: Industry Uses Sea as Giant "Trash Can"
Original source: China Daily Pollution has further damaged China’s coastal waters through oxygen depletion caused by excessive growth of algae and waste discharge, according to a report released by the...
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The IMF Revisits Capital Controls
Original source: People's Democracy In the many belated shifts in its policy recommendations made by the IMF, the most recent has been its position on the wisdom of imposing controls on foreign capital...
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Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and Capitalism
Original source: Japan Press Service Fuwa Tetsuzo, director of the Japanese Communist Party Social Sciences Institute, said on May 10 that the nuclear accident in Fukushima has clearly illustrated two...
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Obama’s Middle East Policy: Something Old, Something New
On this episode we analyze and respond to the President's speech on the Middle East this week. Podcast Powered By Podbean Download as mp3...
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The ILO Must Condemn U.S. Anti-Union Legislation
In the United States, we take for granted that private-sector employers welcome unions like they welcome an outbreak of the Black Death. And they act accordingly. A recent survey of recruitment ads run...
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