Hands Off Our Community! Hands Off Immigrants!
download as 2-sided leaflet (8.5×11) An Attack on Our Communities The Trump administration has launched attacks on people across the country it claims are criminals, with the goal of deporting one million people each year. The new Federal budget has $45 billion to build new privately run detention centers. The budget for ICE, the masked, […]
It’s the Capitalists’ War Machine – Not Ours!
Download pdf here What They Say U.S. politicians from both parties say wars are fought to defend what they call the “free world” from tyranny. They say the U.S. is a beacon of freedom and democracy. They use patriotism (another word for nationalism) and wave the flag to get us to fight their wars, claiming […]
Capitalism’s Effect on the Climate
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The Attack on Immigrant Workers is an Attack on Us All!
The second Trump administration has begun with aggressive targeting of immigrant communities. From San Jose to Chicago to Miami, close to one thousand people a day have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be deported. There are even now talks of daily quotas, 1,500 arrests nationwide, and 75 for each ICE field […]
Leaflet: Oppose the Genocide in Palestine and the Risk of a Wider War! (08/18)
With the Democratic Party convention, the U.S. presidential election campaign is moving into higher gear. The Democrats and Republicans are slinging mud at each other. But one thing they agree on is that U.S. military aid to Israel will continue. And, even though they won’t say it clearly, that means U.S. funding for the genocide […]
Leaflet: Our World is in Crisis! (08/21)
Rule of the Wealthy or of the Majority? What if We Refuse to Accept Their System? What if… … we put all of society’s efforts into stopping the climate crisis. What if environmental experts and those most impacted by climate change decided how we respond to this crisis? What solutions would we adopt? If our […]
Leaflet: Climate Emergency (9/17)
What Will it Really Take to Stop Using Fossil Fuels People have already spent decades: Since the first Earth Day in the U.S. in 1970, the actions of millions of people have led to: But what’s the balance sheet? Over 50 years after the first Earth Day, millions of people continue to pour into the […]
The climate crisis is here, what can we actually do?
{download as b/w leaflet .pdf} A majority perspective Look around you. We are not alone! A recent poll1 shows that 72% of adults in the U.S., believe global warming is happening and threatening life as we know it; 65% believe that we should do more to address global warming. Why isn’t more being done to […]
Defending Our Rights Depends On Us
At a time when women around the world are winning the right to access legal abortion, on June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to turn the clock back to the 1970s. Five justices, lifetime permanent political appointees, who are not accountable to us, have decided that there is no federally guaranteed right for women […]
We Must Fight to Defend Our Right to Choose!
Women and their allies all over the U.S. are out in the streets on October 2 to defend that right. We won this right before and to keep it we will need to fight for it again today!
While They Get Richer, Our Lives Get Worse
We live in the wealthiest country in the World. But who controls it? It is our labor that creates the wealth of this society. But the corporations and banks and their super rich owners reap the benefits. Their greed has no limits. While most workers in the U.S. are scraping by and struggling to pay […]
¡La Vivienda es un Derecho! ¡Pongamos Fin a los Desalojos!
Antes de la pandemia ya estábamos enfrentando una crisis de vivienda. Un número récord de personas estaban pagando casi la mitad de sus ingresos en renta; a menudo varias personas tenían que amontonarse en pequeños apartamentos. Los campamentos de carpas estaban creciendo y millones de personas vivían lejos del trabajo para poder pagar una vivienda, […]
Quality Health Care for All
For-Profit Healthcare Healthcare has become a multibillion-dollar industry. Hospital administrators, not healthcare workers, make decisions about worker and patient safety while pharmaceutical companies fund medical research, making their profits off of patient need. This is healthcare under capitalism – a system that prioritizes profits over peoples’ quality of life. Nearly one out of eleven people […]
How Dare They Try To Steal Our Future!
Young people today face a world of crises. It’s clear that this society does not function for the benefit of 99% of humanity. The problem is capitalism: a system where a tiny fraction of the population owns and controls the world’s resources, wealth, and the infrastructure we depend on. Democrats and Republicans both manage this […]
Housing is a Right! End Evictions!
Even before the pandemic, we were already facing a housing crisis. Record numbers of people were paying nearly half their income in rent, often cramming multiple people into small apartments. Tent cities were on the rise. Millions had to live far from work to afford housing, adding hours to their commute. Since the pandemic, all […]
The Brutality of Racism
Race defines much of our lives. It says who we are to a cop, a judge, our school teachers, the hiring committee, the banker loaning us money, the landlord – everyone. It is with us wherever we go. Race was a conscious creation. It was developed to divide poor workers and indentured servants of African […]
Environmental Destruction is All Around Us
We are facing a crisis like never before. The current organization of production, especially the burning of oil, coal and gas as the main sources of energy, is destroying life on the planet. The Climate Crisis Climate change is causing more frequent and more intense hurricanes which are killing people, destroying infrastructure, and completely upending […]
La Educación: la Lucha por Nuestro Futuro
La Crisis de la Educación Los problemas de la educación no pueden resolverse en una sola aula o escuela. La educación en toda sociedad sirve para mantener el orden existente y para socializar a los jóvenes para que funcionen dentro de ese orden. Eso significa educar a los niños para que funcionen en el sistema […]
Capitalismo es la Pandemia, Socialismo es la Cura
¿Quién es responsable de esta crisis? Desde hace más de un año estamos enfrentando varias crisis. Al igual que una resonancia magnética o una radiografía, estas crisis han expuesto el funcionamiento del sistema capitalista, con su gobierno de patrones y banqueros que explotan y oprimen a la mayoría de la gente del mundo. La enfermedad […]
Capitalism is the Pandemic — Socialism is the Cure
Who Is Responsible for the Crises Today? For over a year now, we have faced a series of ongoing crises. Just like an MRI or an X-ray, these crises have exposed the functioning of the capitalist system – the rule of the bosses and bankers that exploit and oppress the majority of the people of […]
It’s the Bosses’ War Machine — Not Ours!
What They Say U.S. politicians from both parties say we fight wars to defend what they call the “free world” from tyranny. They tell us that the U.S. is a beacon of freedom and democracy. They use patriotism (another word for nationalism) and wave the flag to get us to fight their wars, claiming we […]
Education: The Fight for our Future
The Crisis in Education The problems in education can’t be solved within a single classroom or school. Education in every society serves to maintain the existing order and to socialize young people to function within it. That means educating children to function in the capitalist system, a system based on the exploitation of the overwhelming […]
Leaflets for recent demonstrations
Demonstrations in Support of Palestinians (May 17, 2021) {Bay area .pdf} {Baltimore .pdf} {New Jersey .pdf}
The Future Is In Our Hands!
Today millions of people across this country have joined together to say “No more violence in our schools.” and “No more violence in our communities.” We are all here because students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida refused to remain silent after the murder of 17 people at their school. If […]
A Society Based On Violence!
We are right to question the violence of our society, where mass shooting and brutality have become accepted as normal. The system of capitalism values human life and the planet only as resources to be exploited and profited from, creating wealth only for those in positions of power. Their entire system is organized violence against […]
Housing: A Luxury for the Rich?
Across the country, landlords and developers are seizing every opportunity to raise rents, kick out workers and the poor, and bring in families able to pay skyrocketing prices for housing. Housing is becoming a luxury that only the rich can afford. The U.S. has hit a 51-year low for the number of people who own […]
Trump: Making the Rich Richer Again
It’s been a year since the election of Trump and it couldn’t be any clearer that this is an administration that only represents the richest of the rich. For those workers who may have thought that he would fight in their corner, Trump has made it clear: he’s in the opposite corner with his gloves […]
Democrats and Republicans Both Defend the Rich
With the Trump administration in the White House, many are wishing that Clinton had been elected. Now, attempting to rebuild its credibility, the Democratic Party has mobilized its forces through various social justice and environmental organizations and coalitions in order to appear to defend the rights of the majority. The message they want people to […]
Imagine an Environmentally Conscious Civilization – Socialism
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. —John Muir We humans are nature itself, woven into the environment, linked to all that is around us by a million threads. For those of us who know how ever-expanding production and global warming are impacting […]
The Earth Is Not Theirs To Destroy!
Global Warming and Global Climate Change Is Global Warming Real? Yes it’s real. There is no question that the overall temperature of our Earth has increased over the past 50 years and continues to increase each year. The world has warmed more than 1.8°F since the late 1800s and the massive expansion of industry. The […]
We Must All Become Organizers
We are all linked with people who could be activists or organizers. Each of those people are concerned about the political situation and are looking for ways to respond. But they need help in organizing and linking to others who are already active. Here are some steps that each of us can take as organizers. […]
A Society Based on Inequality
Today we are living in a world with unprecedented levels of inequality. The richest eight billionaires have the same wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population – that is, eight men have the combined wealth of 3,600,000,000 human beings. What makes this insanity possible? Capitalism, an economic system in which workers produce the […]
An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!
Many immigrants are nervous about immigration policies under the Trump administration. Trump has proposed cutting off funding to sanctuary cities, building a wall the length of the border, stepping up immigration raids, and banning immigrants from six countries. The fear of Trump’s policies is justified but it is important to remember that undocumented immigrants are […]
It’s Time To Gather Our Forces!
The first weeks of the Trump administration have laid bare the hate-filled agenda they plan to carry out. This administration has already openly attacked immigrants, Muslims, women, LGBTQ people, threatened to accelerate environmental destruction, to support corporations and banks while increasing attacks on working people. And as it gets ready for a war at home […]
No! To Trump and the Society He Represents
Trump has bragged about sexually assaulting women, claiming that he can do anything he wants. Unfortunately the attitudes that guide his self-centered approach to the world are prevalent in this society. We are right to fear that this new administration threatens a massive elimination of the hard fought gains made by women and their allies […]
It’s Time to Fight Their Whole System!
We Should Expect the Worst A Trump Presidency is upon us. And we should expect nothing less than the worst from this administration. Trump ran a campaign of open racism and nationalism and sexism, promising attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, gays and anyone else who stands up to him. With his cabinet selections we see […]
Their Elections Cannot Determine Our Future
Many people are in shock that a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-Muslim bigot who thinks global warming is a hoax and that torture is OK, will soon be the President of the U.S. Trump pretended to be an outsider – a man of the people. He is a billionaire tycoon, who tried to block workers at […]
The Future is Socialism
The functioning of capitalism, its ceaseless quest for ever-greater profit, the engine of the entire global economy, is at the center of every major problem human society faces today: from wars and violence and ecological decay to economic crises and poverty and prejudice. To confront these problems, a complete social transformation of society is necessary, […]
Capitalism IS The Problem
We are living in a world that is overwhelmed with crises. We live in a world threatened by mass extinctions brought on by ecological destruction. We live in a world permanently at war, fueled by the need of corporations and banks to amass ever-greater profits. We live in a world where corporations and banks bring […]
The Change We Need Is Not In Their Ballot Box
The Economic and Social Crisis in Front Of Us The 2016 Presidential election is taking place amid widespread economic, political, and social crises. The average income for the bottom 90% is $31,000, and the average income for the top one percent is $27 million. Nearly all of the job growth in the last decade came […]
The Origins of the Police
For most of human history, daily issues of society were settled by people themselves, in their communities. There weren’t always police on every street corner with the power to stop, search, and harass people in the name of the law. Police forces were introduced by governments controlled by the wealthy, not to protect people but […]
A Nation of Mass Incarceration
The US has the largest prison population in the world. With five percent of the world’s population, it has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, half a million more than China, which has five times the population. There are about 2.3 million prisoners in the US and about seven million either locked up or on […]
Imagine If…
Imagine If… Today we know that the world is divided into the one percent and the 99 percent. While most people are struggling to survive, a small portion of the population is living in luxury. It doesn’t have to be this way. The problem today is one of maximizing our possibilities. Imagine if the 99 […]
Climate Change? No! We Need a System Change!
There have been five major extinction events on earth where most of the larger plant and animal species were wiped out. The last extinction killed the dinosaurs. An asteroid crashing into earth and drastically changing the climate caused that extinction. Now we are living in what could be the sixth extinction. But this time, our […]
Racism – A Cancer of This Society
We live in a society based on divisions. The main division, which is hardly ever discussed, is the division between those who control the wealth and productive forces of society, and those who do the work. Those in control of the economy determine what to produce, who will produce it and who it is produced […]
Women Hold Up Half the Sky…
But Don’t Have Half the Power or Half the Wealth The claim that the division between the sexes today is natural, or has always been this way, is not true. For most of human existence humans lived in small groups, worked together, shared the resources and took collective responsibility for the young and the old. […]
School – Education or Adaptation?
Almost everyone who is involved in education knows that it isn’t working the way it should be. School days can be spent racing from class to class with no time to think. Many just wait for the day to end. Both students and teachers can feel trapped in classes that seem boring or irrelevant. It […]
Capitalism – A System of Constant War
We live in a world ravaged by endless war. The estimated death toll from wars in the 20th century is over 187 million, not to mention the millions of people whose lives were left in ruins in the aftermath of these wars. The wars of the past century and of today cannot simply be explained […]
What Kind of World Do We Want to Live In?
The school year is beginning. This year is another opportunity to shape the path that your life will take. But as we get ready for the hard work of the school year, we should ask ourselves: what kind of society are we inheriting? Today, young people are forced to deal with the stresses of an […]
Our World is Full of Contradictions – Enormous Possibilities Wasted by Exploitation and War
We live in a world threatened by mass extinctions. Carbon emissions and other pollution have heated the planet almost past the point of no return. We live in a world at war. Corporations and banks rake in huge profits, while tens of thousands are killed, injured, and millions made homeless and turned into refugees. Factories […]