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  • Occupy Nigeria: ‘When the Cup is Full’

    "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." – Abraham Lincoln

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  • The Neoliberal Assault on Disability Rights

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    A Public Forum The Neoliberal Assault on Disability Rights Thursday, October 4, 2012 7:00pm New York University Room 803, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Manhattan sponsored by New Politics, Radical Film and Lecture Series(RFLS), and Campaign for peace and Democracy (CPD)

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  • The education wars, part 2: Giving support to Chicago and Colombia's teachers

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    I’ve been asked by readers how they can show their support to teacher unionists in Chicago and Colombia, whose struggles I describe in my recent NP post.  One way is to contribute to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Solidarity Fund. The billionaires are pouring big bucks into defeating this movement and union dues alone won’t…

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  • Education wars are heating up – and lives are at stake

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    You wouldn’t know it from the US media, but the education wars are heating up globally.  Three of the hottest spots are Chicago, Chile, and Colombia.  The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has revved up its struggle to protect public education in that city, with a vote to issue a 10-day strike notice (no strike date…

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  • The Greek Grassroots Challenge to the Politics of Austerity

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    Harrison and Landy recently returned from a trip to Greece, where they met with activists and others to gain a better understanding of the popular upsurge against the Greek government’s austerity program.

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  • Reply to Balderston: Longview Contract Was Not a Victory

    [Reply to Bill Balderston's article, "Occupy Oakland and the Labor Movement."]      I am going to focus my remarks on section 2 of Bill Balderston's article, which he subtitled "The Battle of Longview". Bill and I have very different views of the outcome of this battle, and what that outcome is likely to mean.

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  • "Right-to-Work," Organized Labor, and "The Proletariat as a Whole"

         On January 31, 2012, the Republican majorities in both the Indiana Senate and House passed "right-to-work" legislation, riding roughshod over both the Democratic minority and tens of thousands mobilized workers and their allies. Indiana thus became the first new "right-to-work" state since Oklahoma, which became one in 2002—and a possible harbinger of more defeats for…

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  • The People Rule

         What is democracy? Well, as most of us know, it comes from the Greek demos kratos—the people rule. But what form has that rule taken? Well, in the days of the ancient Athenians, free Greek men used to gather in the agora—the marketplace, to debate public policy and vote on it. Fast forward to the…

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  • Cuba, Socialism and Democracy

         In January 2011, members of the Participatory and Democratic Socialism Movement proposed that the Cuban Communist Party adopt its "Proposals for the Advance of Socialism in Cuba." ("Socialism and the 'Citizens' Demand for Another Cuba," Pedro Campos, Havana Times, June 24, 2012)* These socialist critics of the Cuban regime offered a program of radical democratic…

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  • Chicago teachers lead the way, again

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    Teacher unionism was born more than a century ago, in Chicago. Teachers in Chicago are once again leading the way by authorizing a strike over the policies that are destroying public education in communities across this country – and the globe. In a letter to education activists, Pauline Lipman, a professor at University of Illinois,…

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  • Some Lessons of 1989's East European Revolutions: Reflections of a U.S. Peace Activist

    [This article will appear in the forthcoming summer 2012 print issue of New Politics.]

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  • Every Day Is Memorial Day

    (Written the Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend 2011,when I was my usual long-term unemployed due to only temporary service work available at that time.—GF, May 18, 2012)

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  • The Left and the U.S. Elections: A New Politics Symposium

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         It is half a year from the national elections in the United States. The campaigns are well under way, and the debate on the left as to how to relate to the elections is under way as well. New Politics has invited leftists with a range of different views to comment on what position they…

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  • Running for President Against the System

         To run or not to run? This is a question that every left-wing organization faces every four years. We in the Socialist Party USA spend a good chunk of our National Conventions debating this very question. Yet, for us and for others in the Socialist movement, it is the capitalist system itself that has made…

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  • Occupy Election Season!

         As spring comes to life and the Occupy movement stirs from hibernation, it finds the American electoral machine in full swing for the 2012 race. National elections are anathema to many on the radical left, but to most Americans they represent the only avenue of participation in the political process. That voting via the Electoral…

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  • Progressive Election Strategy and the Norman Solomon Campaign

         We can’t devise a successful electoral strategy for “The Left”—meaning the forces of peace, social/economic justice and sustainability—unless we face a simple fact: We’re getting our asses kicked.

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  • The Left Should Declare Its Independence from the Democrats

         Obama's 2008 promise of "change" has been so outrageously contradicted by three and a half years in office that it almost looks like deceit. The domination of financial elites is now more absolute than ever.

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  • Diverting the Spectacle: Radical Students and the Election Season

         Another election season dawns, and yet again students like myself are urged to "make our voices heard" by selecting our preferred candidate. Many of us will undoubtedly be caught up in the fervor of rhetoric and promises, some perhaps even believing that this time things will be different. As a radical student activist it's often…

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  • Independent Politics for a Green New Deal

         It is time for the Left to be realistic about how it is going to build the power we need to make the changes we want.

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  • Strategic Reflections on the Quadrennial Extravaganza

         The quadrennial presidential election extravaganza is here and along with it comes the quadrennial intra-U.S. leftist bloodletting on the unpleasant question of how to best respond to the narrow "choices" handed down by the nation's corporate-managed one-and-a-half party system.

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  • Meet the enemy

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    One of the most amazing aspects of the current political landscape is the brazenness with which elites destroying public education, while claiming they are saving children, announce their strategy to the world. They have no fear of being stopped.

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