Lois Weiner, Author at New Politics

Trump’s Victory: What American Federation of Teachers President Weingarten should say

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Trump’s Victory: What American Federation of Teachers President Weingarten should say

Lois Weiner

November 10, 2016

Randi Weingarten, who engineered the 1.6 million member union’s early endorsement of Hillary Clinton has issued a statement about the election, lamenting that voters chose to believe Trump about economic insecurity, rather than hearing the identical message, sent by Clinton and unions.
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On Scott Ritter’s Attack on the White Helmets

Stanley Heller

October 15, 2016

It’s painful to read Scott Ritter’s “The ‘White Helmets’ and the Inherent Contradiction of America’s Syria Policy” and see him joining the ranks of the conspiracists on Syria.
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Some Left Arguments on the Election

Stephen R. Shalom

September 26, 2016

Several left arguments on the U.S. election frankly leave me baffled.
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Aiding and Abetting Apartheid

Stephen R. Shalom

September 20, 2016

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Reimagine Possibilities this Labor Day

Lois Weiner

September 5, 2016

In presidential election years, by Labor Day most US labor unions have long halted organizing, shifting most of their human and financial resources to elect a Democrat to the White House. Members are told having a Democratic president will give us — that is, union officials — access to politicians with whom they can negotiate…
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A Challenge to the Green Party on Syria

Stanley Heller

August 5, 2016

The uprising and fighting in Syria have gone on for over five years and your platform doesn’t say a word about it. Delegates to this weekend’s convention, how about adding these five sentences?
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Thinking About the Election

Michael Albert, Stephen R. Shalom

August 4, 2016

As the U.S. election season proceeds, there is controversy, confusion, consternation, and sometimes recrimination. Below, in a question and answer format, we present our views on these matters, hoping to contribute to the discussion.
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Why Mexico's teachers are fighting: CNTE's program

Lois Weiner

July 10, 2016

An activist/scholar in the Mexican teachers union democratic opposition (CNTE) has asked me to publicize this statement (copied below). It explains the demands the movement is making on the government and fleshes out the short but excellent update on The Real News about the struggle. As this statement shows, CNTE and its supporters are struggling…
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Mexico's teachers face more repression, win more support

newpolitics

July 5, 2016

Support for resistance to the current model of education reform in México continues to grow after the Mexican Secretary of the Interior, Osorio Chong, issued an ultimatum on Friday, July 1st, to Oaxacan protesters and members of Section 22 of SNTE, urging them to stop their blockade of highways.
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Mexico – Behind the Protests

newpolitics

June 28, 2016

Two new articles provide useful, accurate analysis about what's behind the protests in Oaxaca Mexico about education reform. One explains the economic factors that compel the government to respond with such vicious repression and are behind its refusal to compromise about its policy to replace the existing teacher workforce with contract labor.
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#Brexit, Support for Mexico's Teachers, and Solidarity From Below

Lois Weiner

June 24, 2016

To show support for Mexico's teachers, demonstrations are being held internationally, as they are in the U.S. In today's blog about the situation in Mexico, Mary Compton provides background to the current repression and information about how readers can support the teachers.
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An Eight-Point Brief for LEV (lesser evil voting)

Noam Chomsky, John Halle

June 18, 2016

Preamble: Among the elements of the weak form of democracy enshrined in the constitution, presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left in that any form of participation or non participation appears to impose a significant cost on our capacity to develop a serious opposition to the corporate agenda served by establishment politicians. The…
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Third Camp Politics: An Interview with Phyllis and Julius Jacobson

Kent Worcester

June 16, 2016

[This interview was originally published in Left History, vol. 18, no. 1 (2014).] Phyllis Jacobson (1922-2010) and Julius Jacobson (1922-2003) were socialist activists in New York City from the mid-1930s through the first years of the twenty-first century. They were members of a radical generation that came of age during the great depression and embraced…
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New Jersey anti-BDS bill is an affront to the first amendment and basic human rights

Stephen R. Shalom

May 22, 2016

On May 9, 2016, the New Jersey State Senate approved by a vote of 39-0 S1923, a bill prohibiting the investment of state pension and annuity funds in companies that boycott Israel or Israeli businesses. One of the bill's sponsors was liberal stalwart and Democratic Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg. Among the co-sponsors were Democratic Senate…
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The Foreign Policies of Sanders, Trump, and Clinton: America and the World In 2016 and Beyond

Joanne Landy

May 20, 2016

[This article will appear in the Summer 2016 issue of New Politics. Corrections since it was initially posted have been included.] The world today is faced with crises on virtually every front, and any assessment of the foreign policy positions of the two major parties’ 2016 presidential candidates must be measured against how well they respond…
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Borders: Refugees and Responders

Dan Leahy

May 14, 2016

This talk was given at the Washington State Council of Fighters Educational Convention for 350 Delegates in Spokane, Washington, on April 20, 2016.
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True Confession: I’ve Lost that Bernie Feeling

Michael Hirsch

May 5, 2016

I’m not feeling the Bern anymore. The Bern has gone away. The Bern has turned to heartburn, if not yet reflux.
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A May Day Message to Teachers – On the Front Lines of a War on Public Education

Lois Weiner

May 1, 2016

(These are my remarks at an evening panel of what its organizers referred to as a "non-conference" so as to convey the need for participants to interact with one another's ideas, rather than present papers. Sessions spanned two full days. The two evening sessions were videotaped. When they are made available I will post…
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C.L.R. James and the Race Question

newpolitics

April 30, 2016

On March 25, 2016, New Politics sponsored a forum centered on its release of a never-before-published lecture by Afro-Trinidadian socialist C.L.R. James on Oliver Cox’s Caste, Class and Race.
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Statement of Purpose for the Alliance of Syrian and Iranian Socialists

Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists

April 27, 2016

Five years after the beginning of the popular Syrian Revolution which demanded democracy and human rights, the Syrian revolutionaries have been decimated through the combined military force of the Assad Regime, the Iranian regime with its sectarian militias, Russian air strikes and military assistance on the one hand, and the ultra-terrorist ISIS and other Salafist…
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International Conference of Agrarian Reform: Marabá Declaration

La Vía Campesina

April 27, 2016

(Marabá, April 17, 2016) We are more than 130 representatives of La Via Campesina member organizations and allies from four continents, 10 regions and 28 countries of the world. We are here in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, to analyze, reflect and continue our collective processes to develop our ideas, proposals, and alternative projects for confronting the…
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