Richard Greeman, Author at New Politics

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Latest News From France: Online Discussion on Sunday

Richard Greeman

March 22, 2019

The situation here may be reaching a showdown between the Macron government, which is now considering using the Army against the Yellow Vests, and the social movement, to whose demands the regime continues to turn a deaf ear. In the last
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An Election Challenge: Time for Change at NewsGuild?

Steve Early

March 18, 2019

The 21,000-member NewsGuild, an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), is a rarity in organized labor. It’s one of the few national unions that lets all members vote for its top officers, instead of choosing them at a convention
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Ortega Government Cracks Down on Peaceful Protesters, Carries Out Massive Arbitrary Detentions

Articulación de Movimientos Sociales

March 17, 2019

Today, March 16, 2019, Nicaraguan citizens using their constitutional right to protest, gathered in various parts of the country to peacefully protest the Ortega-Murillo regime and demand the release of all political prisoners. Protesters were met with violent repression and
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The New Politics of Disablement: The Contribution of Mike Oliver

Ravi Malhotra

March 16, 2019

Mike Oliver, Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Greenwich in England, has died at the age of 74 after a short illness.
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What LA Teachers Have Already Won

Lois Weiner

January 19, 2019

The United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), the city’s teachers union, has now reentered negotiations with a school board chastened by a strike that has shown the movement’s political power in massive demonstrations with community members and parents.
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Money-Launderer-in-Chief Trump, the capitalist media and socialism: A time-line

John Reimann

January 19, 2019

Here is a timeline of how the mainstream U.S. capitalist media has covered the issue of Trump’s financial ties with the Russian mafia capitalist class. This timeline is significant, because it provides a clue to the thinking of the mainstream of the U.S. capitalist class as well as how that thinking is now changing.
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On Revolution and Internationalism: Socialist Strategy Today

Jason Schulman

January 14, 2019

With the revival of the socialist movement in the U.S., and the phrase “political revolution” having briefly entered the political mainstream as a result of Bernie Sanders’ Presidential campaign, it’s a good idea for contemporary socialists to look back upon the political strategies of our predecessors to examine what they thought “revolution” signified, and to…
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I’m seventy-two, and must still work

George Fish

January 14, 2019

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Why the LA Teachers Strike Matters

Lois Weiner

January 12, 2019

The January 14 strike date announced by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) has heightened tensions in an already contentious dispute with Los Angeles Superintendent Austin Beutner, who represents the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in negotiations. However, far more is at stake in Los Angeles and for the rest of us than…
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The Housing Affordability Crisis and What Millennials Can do About It

Steve Early

January 12, 2019

Randy Shaw, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. University of California Press, 2018. 304 pp. When millennials head home for the holidays this month, many who are city dwellers will be hosted by parents or grand-parents whose housing is far more spacious and financially secure than their own. Even…
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Green, Union Jobs: Organizing at Buffalo’s Tesla Factory

Sean Collins

January 12, 2019

Rob Walsh, originally from a small town just outside Utica, is a material handler at the Tesla plant just south of Buffalo, New York’s downtown—dubbed Gigafactory 2—and part of the joint United Steelworkers/International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers organizing committee. One of plant’s earliest hires, he works 12-hour shifts three to four days a week, making…
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Solidarity with the Popular Uprising in Sudan

Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists

January 11, 2019

We, the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists, support the ongoing uprising which erupted across Sudan starting December 19th, 2018. The protests were set off by the lifting of subsidies on bread, wheat, and electricity as well as spiking inflation. The United Nations Development Program has estimated that nearly half of the population, i.e. 20 million,…
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Fighting for Healthcare for All or Sitting Out the Fight?

Andres Nin Jr.

January 11, 2019

While a Single Payer healthcare system is on the table nationally (in the form of several bills, but perhaps more importantly, in the platforms of nearly all the top presumptive Democratic presidential nominees), the actual creation of such a system is perhaps more likely to be accomplished at the state level first, and it’s possible…
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A New North American Political Network Emerges from the Grassroots

Symbiosis

January 8, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 7, 2019 Press contact: Katie Horvath, katie.s.horvath@gmail.com, 720-838-8051 Local direct democracy groups across North America are assembling a revolutionary confederation A congress of these grassroots organizations will be take place September 18-22, 2019, in Detroit, MI Individuals can join and will be given guidance and support to organize where they live…
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The Key to the Key: A Socialist Feminist Rank-and-File Strategy

Shelly Ronen, David I. Backer

January 7, 2019

Kim Moody’s “Rank and File Strategy” has influenced much of DSA’s approach to labor organizing. To draw out what he calls socialist “class consciousness,” Moody recommends fomenting member-led struggles in unions that advance self-empowerment. By joining “transitional organizations,” or rank-and-file reform caucuses such as Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), he believes, workers gain experience directly confronting…
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Seasons Greetings from France’s Yellow Vests: “We Are Not Tired”

Richard Greeman

January 2, 2019

Is the Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) rebellion, now in its seventh week, “petering out?” Such was the near-unanimous pronouncement of the mainstream media, when I returned home to Montpellier, France, eager to participate and to observe first-hand this popular insurrection which I had been afraid of missing.
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The Green New Deal Promises Peace and Progress. Will Nuclear Advocates Undermine it?

Harvey Wasserman

December 30, 2018

The environmental policy centerpiece of the incoming Democratic House of Representatives is what’s now known as “The Green New Deal.” But it’s already hit deeply polarizing pushback from the old-line Democratic leadership. And it faces divisive jockeying over the future of nuclear power.
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The French Yellow Vests: A Self-Mobilized Mass Movement with Insurrectionist Overtones

Kevin B. Anderson

December 30, 2018

The White-Hot Anger of French Working People as a Real Fact After rumbling on social media for weeks, the Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) movement emerged suddenly on November 17, when no less than 300,000 protestors occupied roads, traffic circles in exurbs and rural areas. They wore the yellow safety vests the government requires all motorists…
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Confronting China’s War on Terror

David Brophy

December 29, 2018

For some eighteen months now, ethnic minorities in the region of Xinjiang in northwest China have been living through unprecedented wave of repression. The most extreme element of this crackdown is a network of camps across the region, designated “re-education and training centres,” where anywhere from a few hundred-thousand to upward of a million Muslim…
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Statement on Threat of Turkish Planned Military Invasion Against Northern Syria

Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists

December 27, 2018

Donald Trump’s sudden decision to withdraw 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria is a green light to Recep Tayyip Erdogan to decimate the Kurds in what remains of Rojava in northern Syria. Earlier this year, Turkey invaded the Afrin area with the assistance of Syrian reactionary armed opposition groups, leading to the forced displacement of large…
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The Soaring Writer Who Landed on His Feet

Michael Hirsch

December 22, 2018

Bill Fletcher, Jr. The Man Who Fell From the Sky. Hard Ball Press, $15, trade paperback, 350 pp. “Race” as a biological category differentiating humans has been a spurious and discredited marker for more than a century. From Franz Boas’ early pioneering studies of the Inuit to Barbara Fields’ contemporary savaging of race-based ideology, we should all…
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