From Syria to the U.S. – We are Being Manipulated
In Syria, on the border of Turkey, thousands of Kurdish men, women and children are camped, waiting to see what will happen to their home city of Kobani. Another 200,000 people have fled into Turkey. In Kobani, Kurdish forces are battling street to street with forces of ISIS, the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. […]
The U.S.A. – Cops Of The World
Sunday October 26, 2014 (Oakland, CA) From Iraq to Syria to Sudan, from Haiti to Venezuela to Columbia – U.S. troops, weapons, and money are used to enforce their system of domination and exploitation. And at home in the U.S., the cops are armed with the same weapons used against working people all over, from Ferguson […]
Ebola Outbreak – Now An Imperialist Epidemic
The Ebola outbreak, which started last March in Guinea, has continued to spread in West Africa. With close to 3500 dead, it now affects six countries in the region. It has quickly gone from an outbreak to a pandemic. It is estimated that the virus could infect over one million people. It is not just […]
International Situation: Our solidarity with the world’s peoples does not mean political support for their leaders
This is a translation of an article written by the French Trotskyist group, L’Étincelle (The Spark), as a contribution to a discussion within the NPA (New Anti-Capitalist Party) of France. The general situation in the world is currently characterized by two things: an overall offensive against the working class, not only in France or Europe […]
Israel and the U.S. – The Special Relationship
It is clear the U.S. and Israel have a special relationship. Every U.S. official has to make this absolutely clear whether they sit in Congress or in the Oval Office. During the latest war Israel inflicted on Gaza, while nearly one third of all Americans polled believed that the violence was unacceptable, every singe member […]
ISIS – A Product of U.S. Imperialism
U.S. warplanes have started bombing communities in Syria and Iraq, targeting the group called ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In the last year, ISIS has rapidly extended its control into areas of both Iraq and Syria, which produce large amounts of oil, threatening the profits of big Western Oil companies. This is […]
The Police: To Serve and Protect…Their System!
The militaristic response by the police to the rebellion in Ferguson showed the country and the world something all too familiar to poor and working class people – that the police are heavily armed and ready to use brutal force to put people down. The police are often represented as the good guys who only […]
The United States – The Cop of the World
The U.S. government acts like the cop of the world. It claims that when it wages war, it is protecting people. Politicians do their best to mask U.S. military violence in the language of humanitarian intervention and the promotion of democracy. But just like cops, the real role of the U.S. military in the world […]
Ferguson, Missouri – The War at Home
On August 9, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed black man, was murdered in cold blood by a cop. The reason? He was walking in the street and questioned the cop’s order to get out of the street. This outrageous act attracted the attention of people across the U.S. and around the world, but not because […]