“The Most Horrific Thing I’ve Ever Seen”
Last Thursday, the state government of Alabama conducted the first ever execution of a human being using nitrogen gas. The man executed was 58-year-old Kenneth Smith, who was twice convicted of the brutal stabbing of Elizabeth Sennett in 1988. His accomplice in the killing had already been executed in 2010 via lethal injection. The state […]
“El arco del universo moral es largo pero se curva hacia la justicia”
Las palabras anteriores fueron las pronunciadas por MLK Jr. en marzo de 1967, en el apogeo de los movimientos sociales que luchaban por la justicia racial, la igualdad económica y el fin a la política imperialista de EE. UU. en Vietnam. Ahora que nos adentramos en febrero, centrado en la historia Afroamericana, estas palabras son […]
Solidarity with Farmers’ Anger: It’s Capitalism That’s Starving Us All!
NOTE: Farmers across Europe have this week protested against their unbearable economic conditions, from France where the biggest protests have seen farmers use their tractors to block roads around Paris, to Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, and Romania. Here is the January 29, 2024 editorial of the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from […]