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Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

  Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now At first glance it sounds impossible — but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think. Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now - In These Times
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¡AMNISTÍA GENERAL YA! or, the necessity of making a better America, for our immigrant fellow workers and ourselves

  ¡AMNISTÍA GENERAL YA! or, the necessity of making a better America, for our immigrant fellow workers and ourselves   Early in the morning of Tuesday January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis, MN, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37 year old poet and mom of 3 was shot and killed in her family car in her own neighborhood, while trying to avoid a confrontation with a band of armed men. This foul murder was allegedly committed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Officer Jonathan Ross (who, of course, is constitutionally presumed innocent until proven guilty in a federal or state court of law, for the record). The video instantly went viral, what happened is quite clear in the court of public opinion, and to any person with functional eyes not willfully blinded by bias and propaganda.   Be that as it may,  according to statements in the media by officers specially trained as firearms instructors, standing in front of a moving car and firing up...

BLUE EAGLE 2.0 or why we should demand a new National Industrial Recovery Act

  BLUE EAGLE 2.0 or why we should demand a new National Industrial Recovery Act                                                   THE ORIGINAL BLUE EAGLE: When corporatist reform Democrat Franklin Roosevelt became president on March 4, 1933, his priority was to end the Great Depression and restore the normal functioning of American capitalism. A big part of his ‘100 days program’ was the National Industrial Recovery Act, the body that carried out that law the National  Recovery Administration, NRA, (popularly known as “The Blue Eagle” because of its distinctive logo,  often seen posted at businesses that participated in the program) chaired by WW I US Army logistics planner General Hugh Johnson, with the National Recovery Review Board, chaired by famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow, the tribunal that enforced the body’s...

The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement

  The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement The “pro-worker” conservatism of figures like Oren Cass and his American Compass think tank offers narrowly targeted measures to select workers while terrorizing immigrants and maintaining management’s control over the workplace and politics. The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement

WHAT DO WE DO NOW? the crisis of the American working class and what we can do to fix it

  WHAT DO WE DO NOW? the crisis of the American working class and what we can do to fix it America is a country where citizens have more civil liberties than anywhere else on the planet, yet we are politically voiceless. We have a very narrow political spectrum; a multicultural, socially radical but fiscally conservative, center right party of the billionaires (the preferred party of that class) and an openly racist, socially and fiscally conservative far right party of the billionaires. The Democratic Party has its mass social base among a portion of the nation’s affluent professionals, corporate executives, small business owners and the more privileged and affluent layers of the working class – among African American and Jewish professionals, executives, businesspeople and affluent workers, support for the Democratic Party is almost unanimous, due to the open racism of the leaders of the other major party The Republican Party has it’s mass base among a portion of the nati...

The Historical Failure of Anarchism

  The Historical Failure of Anarchism 1996 Position paper written by Chris Day that was a part of the final conflict in Love & Rage over orientation and direction. In this piece, he emphasizes what he see as the programmatic weaknesses of anarchism and the need to look beyond it for answers. The Historical Failure of Anarchism | libcom.org