G8, Poverty, & Immigration
The G8 meets to keep the global economy firmly in the hands of the capitalist elite The watchdogs of the biggest world economies will hold a summit at Camp David May 18-19, meeting as the Group of Eight (G8). The heads of state are faced with the task of restructuring the system of corporate private [...]
Workers of the World, Unite
Since the early 1970’s, the capitalist oligarchs at the head of the world’s largest corporations have significantly changed the character of the world’s economy. After two world wars that pitted one nation’s capitalists against another’s, they scuttled their system of protected national and colonial markets (as in the British Empire). Leaving their colonies in the [...]
Moving Forward! May Day 2012
Our struggles can no longer be contained by national boundaries, fighting one another in the interests of capital and the corporations. Our fight is for a new world, where the people own and control the technology of production and use it to cooperatively produce food, housing, health care, and everything else we need for a [...]
Global labor flows to the high-wage areas
Mexico couldn’t protect its own agriculture from the fluctuations of the world market. A global coffee glut in the 1990s plunged prices below the cost of production. A less entrapped government might have bought the crops of Veracruz farmers to keep them afloat, or provided subsidies for other crops. But once free market structures were [...]
Houston: Why we Occupy?
The economic crisis has been exacerbated by “globalized finance capitalists” imposing “austerity” measures upon entire countries. OccupyHouston participants and supporters agree… capitalism, aka “runaway corporate greed,” and its governmental apparatus, “the corporate-state” – are “killing the people and the flora and the fauna and the “Good Earth’s” natural resources…” So what are the 99% saying [...]
The 99% Are Part of a Global Movement Against Capital
The Occupy Wall Street protests began with a few hundred Americans standing up in New York City to let the 1% know that the American people weren’t going to take it anymore. “Business as usual” i.e. robbing the people — of their livelihood was over. This historic day was September 17, 2011. Who is the [...]
The Economic Crisis: More than Greed or Corruption
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all [...]
Why all the world is in the streets
The revolution in technology is pushing the world’s workers out of production In the immense corn and wheat fields of the American Midwest, unmanned tractors are seeding and harvesting crops. In California’s Silicon Valley, high-tech new industries are producing world-changing new products with only a handful of workers. Even in China and India, the world’s [...]
Rosalinda Guillen: Farm Workers Justice and the Food Sovereignty Movement
Rosalinda Guillen is a widely recognized farm worker and rural justice leader in the state of Washington. The oldest of eight, she was born in Texas and spent her first decade in Coahuila, Mexico. Her family emigrated to LaConner, Washington in 1960, and she began working as a farm worker in the fields in Skagit [...]
Where we’re headed
Immigrant rights advocates have become an assortment of strange bedfellows. Politicians, police chiefs, businesses and unions, religious, community and civil-rights organizations, all these are finding themselves in the same side. In this mixture of some good and some very strange company, revolutionaries need to figure out what should be our guiding light. Nationally, powerful economic [...]
Dictatorship by the Corporations
On May 2011 I had the privilege of interviewing the Reverend Edward Pinkney. Reverend Pinkney has gained national recognition for leading the impoverished, overwhelmingly black community of Benton Harbor, Michigan in its fight against the corporate takeover by Whirlpool Corporation. The struggle of Rev. Pinkney and supporters highlights the growing fascist danger in this country [...]
May Day – TAX THE RICH
May Day 2011 was different than other years, this year ties of solidarity, as one class of workers, was more broadly displayed than other years. This year the immigrant marches, almost in every city were joined by the newest sectors of workers under attack, the state and city employees. In recent months we have seen [...]
New Orleans Workers Take to the Streets
For the fifth year in a row, workers from the Congress of Day Laborers, STAND with Dignity, and the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity organized a Mayday march through downtown New Orleans. Among other organizations represented were ROC New Orleans and the Teamsters Union. The march began and ended with speeches by workers and their [...]
May 1st – Made in the U.S.A.
Countries all over the world celebrate May 1st as the workers’ holiday – except the United States, even though the roots of May Day are deep in American history. In 1886, the new, young American Federation of Labor (AFL) was seeking the spark that would ignite the labor movement. Sensing that it was the demand [...]
Imagine Not Having To Worry About Finding A Job
Millions of people losing their jobs, millions of lives devastated. People losing everything, and ending up homeless. As someone put it, it’s a shock knowing that your talents and skills are dispensable. We don’t truly realize how much work gives meaning to our lives in this kind of society until we don’t have it. The [...]
We must unite to survive
For decades, millions of Latin Americans have struggled north to the United States to find work, dreaming of prospering and of buying a house. Now the “American Dream” is being destroyed for immigrants as well as Anglos. At home in Latin America, the new, global oligarchy is ruining small farmers by flooding the market with [...]