For months, Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, has been making repeated statements about his desire to join NATO, the U.S.-led military alliance. The U.S. administration has approved these statements. Everyone knows that such membership is unacceptable to Russia. Since the fall of the Soviet Union 30 years ago, NATO has been absorbing all the countries surrounding Russia one by
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Dear Bay Area and NorCal Supporters and Friends, Labor and Community for an Independent Party (LCIP) invites you to the Bay Area campaign launch for Marco Amaral, a special education teacher running an independent and working-class campaign to become California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. Amaral’s campaign is challenging the pro-business incumbent Tony Thurmond and the Democratic Party machinery that backs
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Presentation: The following statements were presented on December 9 to an online national forum on Citizenship for All and the Fight for Independent Working-Class Politics that was attended by 63 unionists and community activists. The meeting was hosted by Labor and Community for an Independent Party (LCIP). Marco Amaral (Independent candidate for California State Superintendent for Public Instruction) [Note: Marco
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LCIP Statement in Support of Marco Amaral’s Independent Campaign for California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Labor and Community for an Independent Party (LCIP) proudly and enthusiastically endorses Marco Amaral ‘s election campaign for California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. At a time of increased attacks against public education and teachers’ unions by both Democrats and Republicans, Marco Amaral’s campaign charts a
Read more(reprinted/translated from the August 2021 issue of Transición, published monthly in Mexico) In early June 2021, the Biden administration sent Vice President Kamala Harris on an official visit to Mexico. With a supposedly “more humane” face and the pledge of “good intentions,” the purpose of the visit was to ensure imperialist control over Mexico’s border policy and to tighten strategic control
Read more(reprinted/translated from the August 2021 issue of Transición, published monthly in Mexico) In early June 2021, the Biden administration sent Vice President Kamala Harris on an official visit to Mexico. With a supposedly “more humane” face and the pledge of “good intentions,” the purpose of the visit was to ensure imperialist control over Mexico’s border policy and to tighten strategic control
Read moreAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka passed away from a heart attack on August 5 at the age of 72. Before taking the helm of the AFL-CIO, Trumka was president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). He rose to prominence in the labor movement after he led a victorious and militant nine-month Pittston Coal strike during the Reagan era. During
Read morePRESENTATION In October 2001, in the name of the so-called “war on terror,” the United States and an international coalition bombed Afghanistan, drove out the Taliban, and installed a puppet regime that survived only thanks to U.S./NATO occupation troops. At the height of the war, 120,000 U.S. troops were deployed in Afghanistan, with heavy reliance on mercenaries from Blackwater and other
Read moreIntroduction LCIP’s main objective is to advance the effort to build a mass working-class party rooted in unions, youth, and communities of the oppressed. With this objective, we will build support and principled unity with liberation movements of Black people and other oppressed nationalities within U.S. borders in their community and electoral campaigns. The platforms of these independent candidates need
Read more[Note: The interviews – conducted by Alan Benjamin, member of the Continuations Committee of Labor and Community for an Independent Party (LCIP) – were conducted in early May 2021.] Interview with NNAMDI LUMUMBA, Co-Convener of the Ujima Peoples Progress Party (UPP) Question: We would like you to address three questions: (1) your assessment of Biden’s first 100 days in office,
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Alan Benjamin – OPEIU Delegate to San Francisco Labor Council; Editorial Board member of The Organizer newspaper (Northern California)
* Editorial board member, The Organizer newspaper
* Delegate to San Francisco Labor Council fro OPEIU Local 29
• Past Executive Committee member (retired) of San Francisco Labor Council
* Member, Organizing Committee, Binational (US-Mexico) Conference Against NAFTA 2.0 and the Wall of Shame
• Member, Coordinating Committee, International Workers Committee Against War and Exploitation
• Founding member, U.S. Labor Against the War
• Member, Administrative Committee, Labor Fightback Network
