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Teacher, union member, baseball enthusiast, communist.

• UIC Grad Students Prepare for Strike, Call for Aid

  By Staff on March 7, 2019

  

  The graduate student union at the University of Illinois at Chicago is preparing what they have called an “indefinite strike” beginning March 19th, unless their demands for higher wages and better working conditions are met by the university administration. Their… Read More ›

• A New Marxist-Leninist Organization in Puerto Rico, Comuna Antilla, Has Declared Itself

  By Staff on February 24, 2019

  

  On February 21st, 2019, a group of students and workers released a statement declaring a new Marxist-Leninist organization in Puerto Rico called Comuna Antilla.

• Tax Breaks for Who? U.S. Students Currently Unable to Deduct Tuition in 2018 Returns

  By Staff on February 8, 2019

  

  Students preparing to file their taxes for 2018 should prepare for an unpleasant surprise in their return numbers. For the 2018 tax year, those taxes filed now in early 2019, all U.S. college students are currently (as of February 8th)… Read More ›

• Declaración del PET Condenando el Ataque Violento contra Estudiantes Organizadores en CCH Azcapotzalco el 3 de Septiembre // Statement Condemning the Violent Attack against Students at CCH Azcapotzalco on September 3rd

  By Staff on September 3, 2018

  

  El Partido Estadounidense del Trabajo condena el cobarde ataque de las autoridades universitarias contra estudiantes que luchan por mejores condiciones en la CCH Azcapotzalco el 3 de septiembre. En respuesta a las demandas razonables de suficientes maestros para todas las materias,… Read More ›

• Another School Year Begins Without Change Or Solutions From Reformists

  By Staff on August 31, 2018

  

  As I and other students, graduate assistants, professors, adjunct faculty, and office and campus support employees begin to return to school for fall semester, we find remarkably similar challenges to those faced by university communities since the 2008 economic collapse…. Read More ›

• Anti-Fascist Martyr: 80 Years Ago, Comrade Lilo Herrmann Was Murdered By Nazi German Fascism!

  By Staff on July 15, 2018

  

  Originally published in Arbeit Zukunft, the paper for the Organization for the Construction of the Communist Workers Party of Germany.  On June 20, 1938, communist and anti-fascist partisan Liselotte (Lilo) Herrmann was executed by the murderous henchmen of the Nazis by… Read More ›

• Trump’s Camps are a Fascist Foundation That We Must Dismantle

  By Staff on June 27, 2018

  

  The news regarding Donald Trump’s policy of ripping children from their parents and imprisoning them indefinitely in what can only be called concentration camps has been fast developing, and many on the left have rushed to consider what the implications… Read More ›

• The Only Animals are Trump, ICE, and Deporting Moderates

  By Staff on May 21, 2018

  

  At a meeting of Republican California lawmakers at the White House on Wednesday, May 16th, Donald Trump delivered his latest virulently racist and anti-immigrant statement, saying of immigrants crossing the southern border: “You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These… Read More ›

• After Spencer and Heimbach’s Failures, a Recommitment to Refusing all Platforms for Fascists

  By Staff on March 30, 2018

  

  The last several weeks saw two major victories for the emerging anti-fascist forces in the United States. First, on March 5th, Richard Spencer’s talk at Michigan State University faced overwhelming opposition, with elements of the Traditionalist Worker’s Party being driven… Read More ›

• Net Neutrality and Capitalist Democracy

  By Staff on January 10, 2018

  

  The repeal of net neutrality on Thursday, December 14th, allowing corporations to speed up and slow down internet service and charge for access to any number of currently free services, revealed political allegiances across contemporary American society. The far right… Read More ›

• Why Marxism-Leninism in the 21st Century United States?

  By Staff on October 30, 2017

  

  The heightening of the ecological, economic, and social crises of capitalism during the summer of 2017 from Charlottesville to Houston cast a new urgency on the work of the rapidly consolidating left in the United States. As the left reawakens… Read More ›

• We Must Finish What They Started: Remove All Confederate Statues Now

  By Staff on August 17, 2017

  

  By Jonathan Palameda In Durham, North Carolina on the afternoon of August 14th, 2017, a gathering of activists including elements from the Workers World Party climbed a statue greased by cops to impede climbing, tied a rope around the statue… Read More ›

• For an American Marxist-Leninist Anti-Fascism

  By Staff on August 9, 2017

  

  At the 21st International Seminar on Problems of the Revolution in Latin America hosted by the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador in Quito, the American Party of Labor presented a paper on the issue of fascism as one of chief… Read More ›

• Mariela Castro on Combatting Homophobia and Transphobia in Communist Organizing

  By Staff on July 3, 2017

  

  In 2013, I traveled to Cuba as a part of a study abroad program on the history of Cuban socialism in the context of economic reforms that allowed for limited free enterprise. The financial changes were certainly discernible on the… Read More ›