Past Posts by Descending Date

Mehmet Bayram just came back from visiting and traveling inside Turkey.  Capitalism and more integration to imperialism has left Turkiye as a failed, narco, gang-run country.  Corruption, smuggling, human trafficking, worker exploitation has become the norm under Islamofascism where in contradiction to classical fascism, the state has withdrawn from all spheres of life except those related to the political dictatorship or to the profit making areas of the few monopolies.  Resembling the Mad Max post-apocalypse films, daily life has been abandoned to gangs and these gangs control laws, rules, government and spheres of influence.  Mehmet will focus on regular daily ...

Both parties prepare for war to stall the decay of U.S. world domination — and since 1999 alone, these parties have overseen wars of aggression in Europe, Africa and Asia and imposed coups and sanctions worldwide. Both parties support NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. Both support and arm Israel’s genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. Both back surrounding China with U.S. air and sea power as well as economic war against China. What working-class organizations must analyze and prepare for is how to confront the post-election period. Since the two parties have real differences in composition and tactics, the ...

With just a few days to go, the 2024 federal election campaign is on track to be the costliest ever, with at least $15.9 billion in total spending (OpenSecrets). Yet for all the massive amounts of political advertising, media coverage, web and social media hype, stage-managed mainstream candidate interviews and debates, and even widespread talk of "the End of the American Dream" ... Little or nothing of real substance is being said about the unprecedented challenges facing capitalism and the US working class and small business owners in November, 2024. Join us on November 3rd, just two days before the ...

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network International Coordinator Charlotte Kates was arrested and charged by the Vancouver Police Department for a speech she gave on April 26 expressing support for the Palestinian resistance and calling for the Palestinian and Arab resistance – Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hezbollah – to be removed from so-called ‘terrorist lists’ in Canada and elsewhere. VPD officers arrested Kates while she was on the bus riding home after attending the establishment of the Palestine solidarity encampment at the University of British Columbia, and charged her with “public incitement ...

Starting on December 1, 1934, when Leningrad Party leader Sergei Kirov was assassinated, leading to capture,trial and execution of a Party member Leonid Nikolaev, a number of conspiracies shook the Soviet Union's Communist Party. As revealed in the three Moscow trials, although Trotsky's followers hotly contest it to this day, the 1929 exiled former Party member and once the Commissar of War, Leon Trotsky; was at the center of these conspiracies, Furr and Bobrov's research is based on newly released files from the archives after the fall of the USSR. In his new book, Furr & Bobrov examine the conspiracy ...

Christopher's talk will focus on the current situation in the international communist movement and the various emerging contradictions and issues. It will address ongoing issues within Solidnet, the various positions of communist parties on Russia’s ongoing Special Military Operation, and how communists should approach multipolarity. Christopher Helali is the International Secretary of the American Communist Party (ACP) and North American chair of the DPRK International Solidarity Group. He is an educator, independent investigative journalist, researcher, and geopolitical analyst. Chris has studied at Cornell Law School, Dartmouth College, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, ...

Victor Grossman, born in 1928, is an American journalist, writer, and popular speaker, who defected to the USSR in 1952.  He has since lived in East Germany, then the reunified Germany chronicling life, politics, and humanity ...

Bring your ideas, comments, and questions on the upcoming U.S. presidential election ...

US war threats in Korea have reached an all-time high, sending tensions on the peninsula spiking. In 2023, the US military conducted 200 days of war games in Korea—some of which rehearsed the “decapitation” of North Korea’s leaders, and even brought nuclear capable weapons systems to Korea. With the peninsula at the brink of war, there is an urgent need to organize sustained domestic opposition to US imperialism in Korea from within the belly of the beast. Join us to hear an anti-imperialist overview of the current situation on the Korean peninsula and to learn more about the US Out ...

The application of Neoliberal Economics had its beginning with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. It held its sway for almost four decades starting when China allowed G-7 capital to exploit a vast pool of labor power, but unlike in the past when it resulted in failed economics in the Third World, China rose as an economic giant in just three decades, with the Communist Party of China firmly controlling the process. The US workers largely lost good industrial wages even as they benefited from cheaper consumer products imported from China in these three decades. But lately the ...

Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia. It reveals how its dominant ideological orientation—characterized by defeatism, utopianism, and anti-communism—is rooted in the political economy of imperialism. Internationally acclaimed theorist Domenico Losurdo thus provides a fresh and challenging perspective on purportedly radical thinkers who have been widely promoted in the imperial core. Gabriel Rockhill is a philosopher and activist who has published nine books. He is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova ...

João Romeiro Hermeto is a Brazilian-Italian scholar. In Brazil, he studied engineering and then economics at the Universidade de São Paulo. During the upheavals of the financial crisis, he worked with derivatives credit risk management for an investment bank from 2007 to 2011 and subsequently founded a company that produced and promoted art and culture. In 2013, he emigrated to Europe, studied philosophy and culture, and earned a doctorate in philosophy at the Universität Witten/Herdecke. His research focuses on Marxism and the ontology of the social being, on the critique of political economy, and on the critique of knowledge production ...

The whole world was monitoring the high-stakes Venezuelan presidential election on August 28, not only because the country boasts of the planet’s largest oil reserves but also because it has been an exemplar of independent sovereignty from the US empire. Corporate media coverage of the election and its aftermath was akin to an investigation of a homicide that is focused not with identifying the murderer but with an unpaid parking ticket of the victim. Our speaker, Roger D. Harris, accompanied the election in Venezuela and will report back on what happened there as well as on Washington’s campaign to delegitimize ...

For decades American politicians, the representatives of the country’s oligarchs, have lied to the American people about their country’s relation to socialism. America has been presented as fundamentally antithetical to socialism, Marxism, and communism. Garrido shows how we have, starting in the early parts of the 19th century, a homegrown tradition of socialist thought that grounds itself in the most progressive components of American history. This is a tradition which holds that the values 1776 can only be capable of being fully realized in a socialist society. Why We Need American Marxism develops, within the Marxist framework, upon this tradition ...

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. --  Beyond Oppenheimer. Livermore Lab and the new multi-trillion dollar arms race.​  As the world marks the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wet turn to a discussion of the lasting existential threat these weapons pose to human freedom and security. Our speaker, Scott Yundt, is the Executive Director at Tri-Valley CAREs, a watchdog group that works to stop new nuclear weapons proposed at Livermore Lab, new bomb plants proposed by the federal agencies to build those weapons and monitors and exposes the nuclear weapons activities and the environmental cleanup at Livermore Lab ...

Socialists in the Euro-American left have never really understood the dialectics of the Chinese Revolution from the formation of the People's Republic, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, to the present. Just what is going on with the Communist Party of China (CPC)? Our speaker will help us better understand the dynamics of modern China.​  Our speaker, Kenneth Hammond, is a professor in East Asian Studies & Global History at New Mexico State University. He earned his PhD in History and East Asian Studies and was active in the student movement at Kent State Univeristy. He is also the author ...