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October 7, The Election and Capitalist Crisis, A Conversation With Ajamu Baraka

October 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Austerity, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Genocide, Resistance, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, October 8, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report is again in conversation with Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report Editor and Contributor. The US presidential election is just four weeks away, and momentous events are occurring, particularly in Western Asia, where Israel continues its onslaught with[…]

Harris-Trump “Debate” Ruling Class Politics: The “Lesser Evil” Takes Some Blows

September 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Democrats and Republicans, The War at Home, Trumpism, US Politics

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, September 16, 2024 The two multi-billionaire-backed, 2024 presidential candidates faced off before some 67 million ABC-TV viewers on September 10. The pollsters recorded that Democrat Kamala Harris handily “won” the debate by a 66-34 margin. The New York Times’ fact checkers found that Republican Donald Trump lied or distorted facts 33 times; Harris made but[…]

Harris and Trump Debate Maintenance of the Status Quo

September 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Democrats and Republicans, Environment, Immigration, Imperial Lies and Liars, Migrants

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, September 11, 2024 The debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump featured a rehash of neo-liberal and imperialist talking points. Both are committed to disastrous policies domestically and internationally. The United States’ decline under oligarchic rule is brutally exposed every four years, as the duopoly parties differ on fewer issues and agree[…]

Who’s Funding Harris’s “Lesser Evil” Campaign?

September 14, 2024 UNAC Editor Democrats and Republicans, Genocide, Government Corruption, Imperial Lies and Liars, US Politics

by Jason Koslowski, published on Socialist Action, September 11, 2024 [Editor’s note/Jeff Mackler: Written five days before the September 10 internationally televised Harris-Trump presidential election debate, we reprint below Jason Koslowski’s insightful Left Voice article detailing the US ruling class’s multi-billionaire backers of the Harris campaign… and Trump’s too. At $10 billion, the 2024 election expenditures far exceed the record[…]

We Have Zero Obligation to Vote for War Criminals and Career Politicians Who Serve Only Rich Donors

August 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Democracy and Consent, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 1, 2024 [July 24 Chicago Federal Plaza rally statement by representative of Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine protesting bi-partisan Netanyahu invitation to address US Congress, 600 attended.] This Sunday, after nearly 10 months of mass outrage and action against the genocide genocidair-in-chief, Joe Biden has stepped down from the 2024 election race.[…]

Demagogue Trump’s “Restraint” at Republican Party Convention: Biden Drops Out

July 24, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Imperialism, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 22, 2024 As with France’s newly moderated and re-imaged proto-fascist Marine Le Pen a few weeks earlier, Donald J. Trump took the floor of the Republican National Convention for a 93-minute “unifying” nomination acceptance speech. Friendly, relaxed, complementary, “family-oriented,” thanking God for saving his life five days earlier from an assassin’s near[…]

The Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump and Political Violence Waged by the United States

July 17, 2024 UNAC Editor U.S. Aggression, War and Peace

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 17, 2024 The words “political violence” are the latest hackneyed and dishonest phrase emanating from the political class. The assassination attempt on Donald Trump was a minor affair compared to the treatment that the U.S. state doles out around the world and even to its own people. On January 3, 2020,[…]

Black People to Attack Revolutionary Governments

April 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Caribbean, Censorship and Propaganda, Counter Revolution, coup, Cuba, Latin America, Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s Troubles: A View From the Caribbean Coast Mike Phipps reviews: To Defend the Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua, by Courtney Desiree Morris, Published by Rutgers University Press by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 12, 2023 The question of how Black people fare in a particular country can be a legitimate issue[…]

Is the Democratic Party the Alternative to Fascism, or its Enabler?

February 17, 2023 UNAC Editor Democrats and Republicans, Fascism

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, February 9, 2023 The Jan. 6, 2021, failed attack on the U.S. Capitol exposed an attempt to overturn the presidential election results and made it undeniably clear that the Donald Trump-led MAGA movement represents a critically dangerous and growing threat of fascism in the U.S. But it left this question open: Can the[…]

Why Rage Against the War Machine is So #AntiwarSoWhite

February 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Protest, Resistance, The War at Home, Trumpism, US Politics

by Jacqueline Luqman, published on Black Agenda Report, February 8, 2023 I’m looking at this Rage Against The War Machine rally that is being organized by the Libertarian Party and I am genuinely confused about how folks on the left are involved in this at all. Oh, I understand the need to revive and mobilize a strong not just anti-war[…]