A Contribution to the Discussion: For Independent Black Political Action!

Originally published 9/9/2019 By the Editorial Board of The Organizer Newspaper There is a component of the fight for working-class unity and independent political action that must be a high priority: the Black struggle, which, in the aftermath of the uprising in the Black liberation movement since Ferguson, Missouri, has moved to center stage in U.S. politics. The murder of

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Don Belcher on SIngle Payer

Originally published on 9/7/2019 What many of us have been saying for decades concerning the Democratic Party and Single Payer healthcare is that the Democrats always find ways to divert this discussion with language like, “Yes, we support Single Payer, but … we cannot do it because of A, B, C, D, E, F, or G” … and the list

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There is no substitute for women and men mobilizing to demand their rights by Mya Shone

Originally published 9/7/2019 Emma Goldman, the renowned anarchist and feminist, insisted always that birth control had to be viewed in the context of capitalism. Women would suffer a double yoke of oppression from ruling class social, economic and political forces until they win control over their reproductive choices. By 1915, Margaret Sanger, whom Goldman had mentored, joined her in building

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Saladin Muhammad’s View – building an independent working-class and oppressed mass political party

Originally published on 9/7/2019 The popular front strategy of many on the Left against fascism has meant supporting the so-called liberal wing of capitalism — in the U.S. case, the Democratic Party, as the so-called lesser of two evils. Forces on the Left, especially among the nationally oppressed working-class sectors, must develop and promote an independent political action program that

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Statement from Coral Wheeler

Originally published 8/7/2019 While we denounce the Trump administration and work to build the broadest unity to demand the closing of the camps, we have to see the bigger picture if we are to put an end to this scourge and actually obtain justice for the millions of migrants forced out of their communities in Mexico and Central America as

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Model Open Letter Urging Labor Council to Run Independent Labor Candidates

Originally published 7/18/2019 OPEN LETTER TO THE DELEGATES OF THE NORTH SHORE (OHIO) AFL-CIO FEDERATION OF LABOR (December 2014) The following Open Letter to the Delegates of the North Shore (Ohio) AFL-CIO Federation of Labor was signed by 19 Cleveland-area unionists and distributed to the delegates of this Cleveland central labor council. We are reprinting this Open Letter to be

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