A Tale of Two World Views
“The official unemployment hides the number of people who have given up looking for work. The increase in manufacturing has mostly been a jobless one.”
Students and NYPD Clash at Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College Campus Police and the NYPD assaulted peaceful student demonstrators outside of President Gould's office today on campus. Multiple students were pushed against walls, thrown through doorways, and knocked to the floor, a disabled student was assaulted and had her cane taken from her, and multiple students were arrested and literally carried away by the NYPD.
A Tale of Two World Views
// May 5th, 2012
“The official unemployment hides the number of people who have given up looking for work. The increase in manufacturing has mostly been a jobless one.”
by Billy Wharton
from the Socialist Webzine
A recent New York Times article “A Tale of Two Continents: The US Chose a Better Path to Recovery” trumpets...
Students and NYPD Clash at Brooklyn College
// May 3rd, 2012
Brooklyn College Campus Police and the NYPD assaulted peaceful student demonstrators outside of President Gould’s office today on campus. Multiple students were pushed against walls, thrown through doorways, and knocked to the floor, a disabled student was assaulted and had her cane taken from her, and multiple...
Looking Forward This May Day
// May 1st, 2012
Simultaneously, Socialists can proudly proclaim our support for two ideas that have fueled Occupy – horizontalism and direct action. Democratic socialism is horizontalism.
Statement of the Socialist Party USA National Action Committee
Most years, May Day is an opportunity for socialists to look backward....
Making Our Arrests Count
// Apr 30th, 2012
“We don’t always choose when we are arrested, and we don’t always have control over how it is depicted in the press, but we do have some power over what kinds of battles we choose to wage and how we choose to wage them.”
by Yotam Marom
from Waging Non violence
“The Tombs” is the less-than-endearing...
May Day Actions – 2012
// Apr 20th, 2012
May 1, 2012Socialists of America, Unite! on May 1, 2012
Occupy spread like wildfire, setting America ablaze. From large cities like New York City and Los Angeles to small towns like Martinsburg, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama, occupiers are consistently organizing, planning, discussing, and taking direct action for...
Anti-Capitalist Movement Advances in France
// Apr 20th, 2012
“When asked whether it was difficult to create a coalition between such different groups, Kebaili said no, that the issues of difference were minor and the parties held many programmatic points in common.”
by Billy Wharton
from the Socialist Webzine
The growing resistance to capitalism is not confined to relatively...
International Appeal from the Left Front – France
// Apr 20th, 2012
“All over, we observe that resistances and struggles are multiplying and taking form. They are contributing to the emergence of a vast global movement of ideas.”
from the Socialist Webzine
We, academics, intellectuals, writers, artists, leaders of political forces, trade unions as well as citizen and social movements,...
Deficits, Debts and Demagogues
// Apr 20th, 2012
Justice for Trayvon Means a Democratic Revolution
// Apr 20th, 2012
“Had Trayvon Martin escaped from the violence doled out by an individual racist with a gun, he would still have had to navigate through this racial minefield of 21st century America.”
by SPUSA National Action Committee April 4, 2012
from the Socialist Webzine
George Zimmerman used a 9 millimeter gun to murder...
Solidarity with Santa Monica Students
// Apr 10th, 2012
“We are you asking you to consider the students of Santa Monica College as if they were loved ones. The next time something like this happens, it could be a loved one who is hurt.”
The Socialist Party of California stands in solidarity with the students of Santa Monica College
by The Socialist Party of...
Over a Cliff and Into Occupy With Lenin
// Apr 2nd, 2012
by Pham Binh
from Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
Pink Scare’s (PS) response to the debate ignited by my review of Tony Cliff’s Lenin: Building the Party affords me the opportunity to clarify issues of secondary importance like timing, judgments, method, and implications that did not fit with the...
BC Socialist Shorts: How Violent is America?
// Apr 2nd, 2012
April 4, 20125:00 pmto6:00 pm
In the seventh session of our Brooklyn College Socialist Shorts, we will be having a discussion with the SP-USA chair, Billy Wharton.
Bring a friend, pull up a chair, and join the discussion!
Read Billy Wharton’s article on the NYPD shock doctrine here.
Wednesday, Apr....
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