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 [...]
What Does It Mean to Take Over the Corporations?
Article first printed in our sister publication, People’s Tribune. Since the advent of the Occupy Wall Street movement, our readers have been asking us, “What does it mean to take over the corporations?” In any far-reaching political struggle, slogans anticipate or precede political demands. They are meant to point the way towards an indispensable goal [...]
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 [...]
Occupy Riverside
For almost two months, the Latino Forum has been meeting Saturdays at 10:30 at University and Main to bring attention to the issues of the Latino community. The Forum has members from El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, and Bolivia. Some of the issues that have stood out in their discussions are education, economic insecurity, and immigration. [...]
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 [...]
Take over the corporations!
The question is simple: Are we going to live under corporate domination, or will we have a free and prosperous society of, by and for the people? The corporations are destroying society in their scramble to grab everything they can to stay alive and profit. We either take them over and run them in the [...]
Latin Americans show global solidarity
The “Occupy Wall Street” protests across the United States show that North Americans are finally standing up against the big banks and their bought-and-paid-for politicians. And the protests have gone global. On October 15, sympathy demonstrations erupted in more than 900 cities around the world. Noted the Mexican newspaper, La Jornada, globalized finance has succeeded [...]
Movement for peace, dignity and justice
MEXICO–In recent years numerous groups have marched through the streets and highways of various cities in the country to demand from those in power a stop to the heinous violence, woefully unleashed on this poor country. To date this violence has resulted in the violent death of more than 40,000 (women, men, old people and [...]
Nationalize the Banks! Take Back Our Housing!
As the economic crisis deepens, some of the world’s biggest banks are emerging in control of a commanding share of this country’s housing. They are only a few — Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo., Deutsche Bank. Major world oligarchs, all of them. Together they hold a large part of the country’s [...]
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 [...]
Neighborhoods being demolished
Wall Street benefits from destruction of working-class homes All across the Rust Belt, cities are tearing down working-class housing — in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Cleveland, Detroit. Nearly $2 billion in federal money is being used to raze homes that have been left vacant because of the economic crisis. A generation ago, the Rust Belt — [...]
‘Letting these houses sit empty is not ethical’
“Just letting these houses sit empty while there are people freezing to death on the streets is not ethical,” Rachel Nartin told the Financial Times in February. Nartin and four other homeless people have been squatting in a vacant house in Rochester, N.Y. They share the expenses for utilities and repairs. Rochester itself has taken [...]