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In this superb two-minute video, actor- activist Danny Glover champions the need for a vibrant public Postal Service and asks the public to join with him in A Grand Alliance to save it.
Danny Glover: Our Postal Service from A Grand Alliance on Vimeo.
The folks at Red Wedge magazine have created a wonderful new series of posters called Inside Agitators.
The series “aims to reintroduce the notion that communism is an American tradition and a powerful, intersectional tradition at that. American communists have been women and men, black and white and red and brown, queer and straight, disabled and able-bodied. That the posters resemble wanted posters is no accident: communism has been and is a crime, for which our brave forebears were hunted, banished, jailed, and killed.”
Some of my personal heroes, including Helen Keller, Eugene Debs and Big Bill Haywood are among those depicted.
See the posters: Inside Agitators — Red Wedge.
I put this board together for my day job at Learnist. Sometimes I do have a bit more fun than ought to be allowed.
“Sometimes, I have dared to dream … that one day, history may even say that my voice—which disturbed the white man’s smugness, and his arrogance, and his complacency—that my voice helped to save America from a grave, possibly even fatal catastrophe,” Malcolm wrote.
Read the entire essay: Chris Hedges: Malcolm X Was Right About America – Chris Hedges – Truthdig.
Here are the highlights of President Obama’s proposed “Middle Class” budget.
What a champion of the average family! No?
“We must have a human approach. As far as socioeconomic theory, I am Marxist.”
Read the Article: “I Am Marxist” Says Dalai Lama | Newsweek.
European politics has been plunged into a volatile new era following a historic victory in Greece’s general election by far-left radicals committed to ending years of austerity.
More than five years into the euro crisis that started in Greece in October 2009 and raised questions about the single currency’s survival, Greek voters roundly rejected the savage spending cuts and tax rises imposed by Europe which reduced the country to penury.
The Guardian reports: Syriza’s historic win puts Greece on collision course with Europe | World news | The Guardian.
McDonald’s workers who were fired last year after being told, “There are too many black people [working] in the store,” filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the company Thursday alleging a widespread pattern of racial and sexual discrimination and harassment at three stores in Virginia.
Read More: McDonald’s workers sue fast food giant over racial and sexual discrimination » peoplesworld.
Socialist Worker published a series on ten classics of the socialist tradition back in 2008 and 2009. I think that these works would form the basis for a marvelous book club or discussion group, which I may eventually attempt to organize.
In the first installment, Todd Chretien writes about the Communist Manifesto.
Liberal and conservative historians want you to believe that society has always been divided between the rich and the poor, the weak and the strong, men and women, etc. — division based on money, race, nationality is built into our human nature.
The Manifesto takes a radically different view: Humans lived for thousands of years in what Marx and Engels called “primitive communism” — by which they meant societies that existed in every part of the world where cooperation and mutual reliance, and not competition, formed the basis of survival. At the time, this was based on cutting-edge anthropological research that was very controversial, but today, all but a few right-wing cranks accept that this is the truth about pre-class human society.
Read the article: The Communist Manifesto | SocialistWorker.org.
Read the book: Manifesto of the Communist Party | Marxists.org.
The fast food industry could adjust to a $15 per hour federal minimum wage without cutting jobs, according to a new study from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute.
Read it: A $15 U.S. Minimum Wage: How the Fast-Food Industry Could Adjust Without Shedding Jobs | PERI.
