Election 2012: Alternative History and its Real-World Lessons
Imagine if you woke up tomorrow morning in Bizarro World and John McCain was president. Scary, right?
There's No Recovery Without Job Recovery
The main issue in the 2012 elections is jobs. The main way to get the economy out of the current recession is job creation.
Podcast: The Road to the 2012 Elections (Part 1)
The 2012 elections may be 18 months away but it time now to organize for a people's victory. Labor has declared its independent role in the fight to defeat Republicans at the polls in November 2012.
Book Review: Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
This is one of the most important new books out this year. Readable and ground-breaking, it will be hard to put down once you begin reading it.
Karl Marx on Eugen Dühring
Anti-Dühring is Engels' enduring criticism of the mishmash of philosophy, science, and socialism published in Germany by Eugen Dühring (1833-1921) in the middle of the 19th century.
The Case for and Potential of a Financial Transaction Tax
Keynes proposed it. Oxfam is circulating a petition world-wide to garner support. Gordon Brown has urged its implementation. Bob Herbert has urged it in the New York Times. James Tobin called for it. And Larry Summers (and his wife) wrote an article advocating it. What is “it?"
A Communist’s View: Urgency of Tackling 21st Century “Paradox”
Compelled by the insatiable drive for maximum profit and the resulting concentration of capital and wealth in ever-fewer private hands, modern capitalism has unleashed a series of processes (including global warming, nuclear proliferation and others) that are bringing humanity to the brink of unimaginable horror.
Book Review: Rise Again: A Zombie Thriller
Zombies are back from the dead, and they are better than ever!
Podcast: The Road to the 2012 Elections (Part 2)
This episode is the second part of an extended interview in which we discuss the road to the 2012 elections with Communist Party political action commission chair Joelle Fishman.
Reconsidering Democratic Centralism
As Shakespeare said “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
