In 1999, after spending 17 years on death row for a crime he did not commit and within hours of execution, activists and attorneys won a stay of execution giving time for investigators to find the people who did the crime.
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Slavery and the origins of racism
The classical empires of Greece and Rome were based on slave labor. But ancient slavery was not viewed in racial terms. Slaves were most often captives in wars or conquered peoples. If we understand white people as originating in what is today Europe, then most slaves in ancient Greece and Rome were white.
The relevance of the theory of permanent revolution and its topicality
The link established by Trotsky between combined and uneven development and permanent revolution in the case of Russia was subsequently generalized to the various countries dominated within the framework of imperialism.
Leaving parts of Trump’s pro-polluter legacy intact, Biden gets C- on Environmental Report Card
Biden’s “limited achievements must be put in context of what both science and justice require to avoid the worst impacts of the climate and extinction crises,” said the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund.
To DSA and the US socialist left: To be in solidarity with the Venezuelan people, there’s no need to support the Maduro government
We agree that it is crucial for the US left to oppose economic sanctions and the interference of US imperialism against countries that go out of its orbit, as in the case of Venezuela. But, at the same time, we warn that in order to do this there’s no need to support the Venezuelan government…
Outrage as Biden says fate of immigration reform is ‘for the parliamentarian to decide’
“The parliamentarian offers advice which the president and the Senate are free to take or reject. This is Biden throwing the undocumented under the bus and claiming, wrongly, he has no other choice.”
Cuba: A cry from below
Cubans need to regain hope and to have a possible image of their future. If hope is lost, the meaning of any humanist social project is lost. And hope is not recovered by force.
Bill Onasch: The life of a Marxist in the American workers movement
Bill Onasch, a long term socialist and trade unionist died peacefully, after a long battle with cancer, in Kansas City on July 8. The purpose of this article is to look at what made my close friend such a remarkable comrade.
Did supporting a Democrat help Cook County strikers?
The reality is that this strategy has failed. The person who the union leadership has been endorsing and donating to led the charge against the union.
Capitalism: Has the leopard changed its spots?
“Let me be clear: capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation.”, US President Biden tweeted when signing an executive order to expand competition across the economy and crack down on monopolistic practices…
Nicaragua: Why Ortega does not want to let go. The non-negotiable interests of the regime…
We reprint, in translation, the noted radical Uruguayan journalist Raúl Zibechi, who discusses how Ortega and the FSLN, once the focal point of a generation on the left in Latin America and the world, have become corrupt authoritarians.
“Toni, Toni, Toni… Full of Baloney!”
Saturday’s rally highlighted many of the themes of the strike. There were about two hundred, mainly African American, strikers at the rally. There was great pride that not only had Stroger Hospital struck, but workers in all parts of the County system were also out.
Covid-19 – G7 Cornwall: Vaccine apartheid maintained!
The price of this vaccine apartheid? More than 15,000 deaths per day officially recorded worldwide. In India alone, at the peak of the second wave, for several weeks, up to 4,000 people died every day.
Burma/Myanmar: From civil disobedience to armed resistance – what new Burma can emerge from today’s challenges?
The civil disobedience movement has gone underground and forms of self-defense are spreading throughout the country, not just in peripheral areas populated by ethnic minorities.
Unveiling The Prophet
This is the example of ruling class arrogance and class hatred that Ellie Kemper was involved with. It’s good that she apologized. It will be even better when American workers follow the examples of the 1877 strikers that the Prophets hated so much.
