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The Euro Zone Crisis - Worse than it Appears - Or So We're Being Told?
When President Obama dispatched Treasury Secretary Geithner to Wroclaw, Poland last month to sit in at the meeting of the 17-nation Eurozone finance ministers, it was because, as he put it later, the...
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It's A No - Brainer: Jobs vs Austerity
The Great Recession of 2008 is looking more like the Great Depression of the 1930s. The economic crisis of U.S. (and world) capitalism is entering its fourth year.And according to no less than Federal...
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What I Envisioned
WHAT I ENVISIONEDBest of intentions but the wrong decisionsThe outcomes not what I envisionedRestless and out of positionStranded in a life I never wantedChaos rains on aborted missionsHobbled and out...
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Between Al-Tahrir and Puerta de Sol:
The Development and Challenges of the Social Protest Movement in Israel "The Corner of Al-Tahrir Square and Rothschild Avenue" - is the writing on a huge banner that is hung in Rothschild Avenue in...
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Between Al-Tahrir and Puerta del Sol:
The Development and Challenges of the Social Protest Movement in Israel "The Corner of Al-Tahrir Square and Rothschild Avenue" - is the writing on a huge banner that is hung in Rothschild Avenue in...
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Greece: Throwing Down the Gauntlet to Austerity
Bravo Papandreou!Bravo to Socialist Prime Minister George A. Papandreou of Greece! Who stunned the world with his announcement of a national referendum on the next regime of austerity measures demanded...
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A Crisis of Capitalism
This a longer version of an article that appeared in the Guardian reprinted with permission. 23 Sep, 2011 History repeats itself, Marx wrote, first as tragedy, then as farce. If you wonder how it...
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Frederick Engels on the Theoretical Development of Modern Socialism
Engels discusses the theories of modern socialism in chapter two of part three of his book Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science. We are informed that socialism is a...
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College For Profit
By Anna Bates The privatization of higher education that started during the Reagan administration reached new heights in the 1990s and 2000s with an explosion of for-profit colleges. At a time...
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Austerity: A Marxist Analysis with a Little Help from Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, famously defined a neurotic as someone who spends his time, energy, and resources digging out of holes of his own making only to make other holes and...
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Building a New Society
A powerful concept animated the vision of young people in the 1960s, the idea of community. Many of us came to that decade with little interest in politics. We were not “red diaper” babies but we...
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Towards 2012, Retrospect and Prospect
One The election in 2008 of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States, a long overdue event in the life of the country, was an event of historic importance. This...
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MF Global Meltdown Shows US Vulnerability to Eurozone Crisis
The collapse and bankruptcy of MF Global, led by former NJ Governor Jon Corzine, demonstrates the vulnerability of the US financial system and economic recovery to the Euro crisis. Corzine is also a...
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November Dose of Lenin--The Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat
The Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat The [Russian] Social Democratic Party, as the conscious exponent of the working-class movement, aims at the complete liberation of the...
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THIS IS A FDR/MLK MOMENT --- A TIME FOR ACTION
Edited from remarks at the 11/11/11 meeting of the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA: 2012 is a big election year and as we know the stakes are very high. The right-wing Republicans...
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A Volatile Time
This is a volatile period. Battle lines are being drawn. Not for a while have things been so unhinged. A marked upswing, if not a qualitative turn in class and democratic struggles, is afoot....
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Victory in Ohio
The massive defeat of Issue 2 in the Ohio elections Nov. 8 repealed the measure, known as Senate Bill 5, and stopped the attempt by Gov. John Kasich and his extremist allies to bust public employee...
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Obama in Osawatomie
President Obama’s speech last week in Osawatomie, Kansas was the true "pivot" towards jobs and away from the austerity debates of last summer for which workers, occupy protesters and tens of millions...
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The Fight for Immigrants' Rights is a Fight for Democracy
The surprise generated by the statement by G.O.P. presidential candidate Newt Gingrich to the effect that he favors a mechanism whereby some undocumented immigrants might gain legal status, and the...
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The African American Struggle for Freedom is a Central Theme of U. S. History
By Ted Pearson*In his report to the National Committee of the Communist Party U.S.A on November 21, 2011, Sam Webb, CPUSA Chairperson, observed that “Racism …. rests on the systematic elaboration of...
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