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A Communist activist looks at Piketty's "Capital": part 2 The radicalism of...
Part 1 of this article - Piketty for Activists - summarizes some of the most important data presented and conclusions drawn by Piketty as they relate to ordinary people in the labor and other movements...
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The Cuba breakthrough and U.S. Latin America policy
The wonderful breakthrough in Cuba-US relations on December 17 requires that the left in the United States give some thought about how to deal with the relationship of the United States with the rest...
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Book Review: The economic war against Cuba
The Economic War against Cuba by Salim LamraniMonthly Review Press 2013When French intellectual Salim Lamrani was denied US entry, in the spring of 2013, to attend the 2nd Annual Five Days for the...
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Save democracy: Stop the attack on, and expand voting rights
Ordinary Americans have had to battle for the right to vote from the very beginning. When the Constitution was adopted there was no explicit guarantee of the right to vote for anyone, including US...
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Obama and the politics of outrage
Some of the commentary from the left on President's Obama's recent State of the Union address struck me as too negative, even cynical in a few instances. It's said that the speech was at once too...
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Germany had their debts cancelled after WWII; how about Greece today?
By demanding Greece pay back their debts in full, German chancellor Angela Merkel wants the rest of the world to forget her country's recent history. Given the state of Germany as both a failed economy...
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Ukraine: Are we still under the spell of Cold War propaganda?
Today its [the military's] task is to expand the "zones of democratic peace;" to deter the rise or a new great-power competitor.... The Balkans, and southeastern Europe more generally, present the...
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Anti-Communism: a mask for reaction and repression
Anti-Communism and anti-radicalism in the U.S. have always followed the patterns long established by color racism. This is true for "conservatives" particularly, but also for large numbers of others...
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Betty, Cheddi and me: Memoir of a budding Communist
Where do our political ideas come from? What influences act upon us? Which key individuals affect our personal evolution?The summer of 1957, at the age of twelve and a half, I had to take it easy for a...
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Black lives matter! The struggle against police murders, brutality and abuse
Where we have come fromGovernment policy of racist oppression and brutality goes back before capitalism, but with capitalism came modern American slavery.Our history as a nation shows capitalism and...
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The Republican ambush on workers' basic rights
At every turn, organized labor has been there, fighting on behalf of the American people.But today, instead of implementing policies that strengthen the middle class, Republicans in Congress are...
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Bibi's fear--and what really matters
The battle over whether the Iran negotiations go forward or are forced to fail is bigger than the terms of any "deal". An agreement won't decide any of the great issues of our time, but it bears on...
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People's poetry
Momma used to say Momma used to say life is nothing but a lot of bittersweet memories Me telling ol friend Si as we talked about the death of another But she, his baby, fights on, like he believed and...
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People's poetry II
Below we are posting a powerful poem by Jeanne Ross, a dear friend of four decades and a therapist working to heal people's pyschological wounds. Inspired by "Strange Fruit" the classic anti-lynching...
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The fight against destabilization in Venezuela and against the Trans Pacific...
After the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European socialism, it appeared as though capitalists had invented a way to maintain power forever. Some even wrote about the "End of History"But in 1998, the...
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The fourth requisite
The poet Shelley inspired the oppressed with the reminder "We are many, they are few." The "Occupy" movement told us that the 1% rule and plunder the 99%. And the Socialist movement reminded workers...
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Cuba: Restructuring socialism without missing a beat
HAVANA, Cuba - Approximately 30 miles west of this city, one of the largest construction projects since the start of the Cuban revolution in 1959 is taking shape - a state of the art container port in...
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Marines in Santo Domingo
Fifty Years Later - Introduction by Art PerloFor the 50th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965), Political Affairs republishes Victor Perlo's pamphlet, Marines in...
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People's Poetry: To be an American
Here is a poem for American workers as we celebrate May Day. The international workers' holiday was, after all, born in the USA. To be an AmericanIs the best American the one who hoards the...
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Two sea changes and the most difficult problem in working class political...
The class struggle is essentially over control of the surplus. At no time is this more evident than during periods of capitalist crisis.A socialist revolution transfers control over the surplus from...
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