The Labor Movement in America
The following international platform has been endorsed and adopted by the APL. ON CAPITALISM, THE WORKING CLASS AND THE FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM I. Capitalism and the Working Class 1. Since society has split into classes, the whole of history has… Read More ›
by Leonard Zorfass, edited by Polina Brik On April 12, 2017, Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education under the highly reactionary far-right Trump administration, declared that the reforms made to help protect students in debt from defaulting on their student loans… Read More ›
Photo by Jason Ye | The All Marxists-Leninists Union held a rally on the steps of Brower Commons on Tuesday to support Native Americans protesting the construction of an oil pipeline near their homes in Standing Rock, North Dakota. Members of… Read More ›
by T. Wesołowski May Day Chicago 2016, as with previous marches in the city, an enthusiastic and energetic affair. While the total crowd of workers marching was smaller in previous years, it certainly did not lack in working-class fervor and… Read More ›
– The American Party of Labor, and Marxism-Leninism in general, defines fascism as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinist and most imperialist elements of a ruling class exercised through a fascist political party or organization having… Read More ›
Together with the workers and peoples of the world, we are outraged and condemn the genocide of the Israeli government and army against the Palestinian People! Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of Quito, which proclaimed the birth… Read More ›
August 14, 2014 Without action to back it up, “solidarity” is a hollow chant. Similarly, a group can issue a hundred statements on a hundred different topics and none of them will mean anything without a carefully planned political action…. Read More ›
April 12 saw a heated confrontation between Fascists and Anti-fascists when about forty Maidan supporters attempted to break into an Anti-fascist sponsored teach-in at United Electric Hall on S. Ashland. The forty Maidan supporters included demonstrators flying the flags of… Read More ›
The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. … Read More ›
When I was about thirteen-years-old I chanced upon an article in Henry Luce’s Life magazine that described East Harlem ( a Manhattan working class neighborhood) as “a slum inhabited by beggar poor Italians, Negroes, and Puerto Ricans,” words that stung… Read More ›
My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine. —By Mac McClelland “DON’T TAKE ANYTHING that happens to you there personally,” the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at… Read More ›
Dec. 8, 2013 Today is the fifth anniversary of the founding of the American Party of Labor (APL). On December 8th, 2008, the Party came into existence with the conclusion of our Founding Congress. Delegates from the pre-party committee came… Read More ›
By Clare Kim As the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County continues to rise, the City Council is weighing a ban on feeding homeless people in public areas. City Council members Tom LaBonge and Mitch O’Farrell, both Democrats, introduced the resolution… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 