On the weekend 19-20th a new wave of mass protest all over Egypt broke out because of the systematic violence of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) against the Egyptian masses. People are tired of its dictatorial …
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On the weekend 19-20th a new wave of mass protest all over Egypt broke out because of the systematic violence of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) against the Egyptian masses. People are tired of its dictatorial …
Read moreBy a CT-WSA member
With several months of preparation and one month of action, Occupy Wall Street has accomplished what years of conventional activism has failed to do–spark a populist political awakening against the ruling class. The 99ers have …
Read moreBy Steve Fake
The Arab Spring and European Summer have now inspired a wave of demonstrations in the U.S. as well. It may well prove to be the most significant wave of protests the nation has seen in many years.…
Read moreTacoma and Seattke rank-and-file members of the the International
Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) are showing us the way.
Faced with arrogant bosses and a boss-controlled legal system, they
have declared that the only way to effectively fight back is …
Review: Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui (See Sharp Press, 2010)
By Tom Wetzel
In her essay Latin America & Twenty-First Century Socialism (published as an issue of Monthly Review last year), Marta Harnecker presents a …
Read moreOver a hundred years ago a frightened President Grover Cleveland pushed congress to recognize Labor Day as a federal holiday in 1894. (The September holiday was first observed in 1882 by the Central Labor Union of New York.) In the …
Read moreBy Cam Mancini
I have recently been reading Murray Bookchin. AK Press put out a wonderful collection, titled Post-Scarcity Anarchism, of ten of his works, including essays and discussion pieces on them, and a collection of letters and observations. …
Read moreA Discussion of Politics and Mass Organizations
Part 2 of 2 (Read Part 1 here)
By Nate Hawthorne
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