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, by POST Charles
THE COMMUNIST PARTY (CP) of the United States was the largest and most influential radical organization active in the tumultuous labor and social struggles of the 1930s and 1940s. While never a mass party by the standards of the French or Italian CPs, the U.S. CP had a real and significant (…)
, by BACON David
BAKERSFIELD, CA (12/3/95) - One of the last of a generation of Filipino heroes died last Friday in a hospital bed in Bakersfield. Pete Velasco was a veteran of the labor wars that created the United Farm Workers. With other Filipino leaders, Philip Veracruz and Larry Itliong, he started the (…)
, by NAIRN Allan
An article detailing the peak in US-Guatemalan collaboration in state terror.
Local businessmen and government officials involved with Guatemala’s notorious death squads say they have struck a deal with Ronald Reagan which provides for restoration of U.S. weapon sales and training facilities (…)
, by ZINN Howard
Historian Howard Zinn’s account of the American invasion of the small Caribbean island of Grenada, ostensibly to ’protect’ US citizens, but in fact to re-assert US military and financial dominance over the region.
US troops in Grenada, 1983
In the autumn of 1982, President Reagan sent (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Review: The Workers Party and Democratization in Brazil, by Margaret E. Keck, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1992, pp. 315.
This is the first major scholarly study of the Brazilian Workers Party. Drawing on documentary source material as well as on extensive interviews the (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Review: Without Fear of Being Happy, by Emir Sader and Ken Silverstein, New York, London: Verso, 1991.
A red star is rising over Brazil, a brand new star of hope that owes very little to the ill-starred “really existing socialism”: the Brazilian Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores), the (…)
, by Fourth International
Introduction
STARTING with a critical look at the 11th World Congress resolution, “The socialist revolution and the struggle for women’s liberation”, this resolution aims to be a guide to action for our organizations in their central task of organizing a women’s liberation movement - alongside (…)
, by YATES Michael D.
The year is 1922. In southern West Virginia, coal miners and coal operators have been at war for the past five years. (1) The miners are on strike; they want a union and an end to the industrial serfdom which defines their lives. They live in squalid and isolated mining towns, owned lock, stock, (…)
, by PRT
The following criteria of internal sanctions in the party, in regard to oppression of women, were approved at the VI National Congress, held from the 1st to the 5th of November 1989 in Mexico.
The present document is a contribution from the PRT Women’s Commission to the thinking about a (…)
, by DASHNER MONK Heather
This long article was published in International Marxist Review Vol 2, Number 4 in 1987. It was the background work for the resolution adopted at the 1991 World Congress Dynamics of mass movements and feminist currents-Latin American Women’s Liberation after extensive travel around Latin America (…)
, by CASTRO Fidel, TOUSSAINT Éric
This is the transcription of a speech by President Fidel Castro, at the Continental Dialogue on the Foreign Debt held at Havana’s Palace of Conventions on August 3rd, 1985.
----------- Introduction to Fidel Castroís Speech, by Eric Toussaint In 1985, Fidel Castro launched an (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel, JEBRAC Daniel
Every month since May 11, 1983, the Chilean dictatorship presided over by General Pinochet has had a confrontation with its opponents. There was one on June 14, and again on July 12 and once again on August 11, despite the 18,000 police and military patrolling the capital, Santiago.
On each (…)
, by Combahee River Collective
We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations (…)
, by MILIBAND Ralph
WHAT happened in Chile on 11 September 1973 did not suddenly reveal anything new about the ways in which men of power and privilege seek to protect their social order: the history of the last 150 years is spattered with such episodes. Even so, Chile has at least forced upon many people on the (…)
, by ALLENDE Salvador
The Spanish text (reproduced below second part) is the transcript of the last radio broadcast of Chilean President Salvador Allende, made on 11 September 1973, at 9:10 AM, before he killed himself during the US-backed coup that had Augusto Pinochet overthrow his socialist government. The (…)
, by NEWTON Huey P.
Speech given by Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panthers, August 15, 1970.
During the past few years strong movements have developed among women and among homosexuals seeking their liberation. There has been some uncertainty about how to relate to these movements.
Whatever your personal (…)
, by ROBINSON Candi
Though not yet coined as “womanism”, the Black Panther Party in later years developed a focus on gender equality, specifically the plight of the black woman. With motifs such as “A Woman’s Place Is In The Struggle”, the group became known for their support and inclusion of women and marked (…)
, by LANGSTON Robert
The 70 year-old philosopher Herbert Marcuse has passed through three more or less distinct stages in his intellectual development. His earliest works, such as his 1932 essay on the then recently discovered Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of the young Marx show the overpowering influence (…)
, by GREEMAN Richard
At 4 am on April 30 [1968], my wife and I stood with tears streaming down our faces on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 117th Street, watching the last of the Fayerweather Hall sit-ins being tossed into waiting police vans. We were not the only ones crying, nor were the tears merely those of (…)
, by BARNS Jack , Malcolm X, SHEPPARD Barry, Young Socialist
A 1965 interview with Malcolm X demonstrates how his encounters in Africa had a profound impact on his thinking about the domestic struggles of Africans in the Americas.
On January, 18, 1965, Malcolm X was interviewed by Jack Barnes and Barry Sheppard, two members of the editorial board of (…)
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