Increasing Capitalist Monopoly & Oligarchy The newly-passed “Health Care Reform” bill is a prime example of how the capitalist state operates to help the capitalists make money above all. This bill is a ploy, a trick to allow insurance companies… Read More ›
Health Care
Actually, It’s the System
[Please note that the APL does not necessarily endorse the political line of the author] Capitalism In Crisis: Actually, “It’s the System, Stupid” At the capitalist system’s core lies its central conflict. On one side, corporate boards of directors pursue… Read More ›
Review of “Capitalism: A Love Story”
First of all, I will give Moore credit for making certain ideas mainstream (what other remotely progressive or even politically challenging material are you going to see at a multiplex cinema?), and for his interviews with the working people of… Read More ›
Obama Is Not A Socialist
Barack Obama, the messiah of the reformist left, represents to many just as what his posters display—“Hope” and “Change.” He is simultaneously denied a hundred-fold by socialists everywhere, but this does not stop people, both on the street and in… Read More ›
Health Care, Workers’ Union Rights & Much More: “We Can Get it If We Try”
In the words of the great rock-singing group, Sly and the Family Stone, “You Can Make It If You Try.” Those were encouraging words then and are very appropriate today. We are hearing, too often, that we can get Health… Read More ›
The New Cigarette Law
This year I expect Democratic state governors to try and plug budget holes by raising the cigarette tax. Some Republicans will do this as well, but that isn’t the point. The point is: how do Democrats do this and expect… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 