By Finian Cunningham Half a century ago this month Martin Luther King wrote his famous prison protest against racial injustice, entitled ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’. An excerpt reads: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Fifty years on to this very month, King’s […]
“The Conservative belief that there is some law of nature which prevents men from being employed, that it is ‘rash’ to employ men, and that it is financially ‘sound’ to maintain a tenth of the population in idleness for an indefinite period, is crazily improbable – the sort of thing which no man could believe who had not had his […]
By Margaret Kimberley “You know, I suspect that on Social Security we’ve got a somewhat similar position.” – Barack Obama in debate with Mitt Romney “When a Democrat gets away with austerity and wars of aggression it is truly time to admit that a new paradigm is needed.” Yes Virginia, there is a class war going on in America. There […]
Food loaded into Dumpsters while Hundreds of Hungry Americans Restrained by Police by Sarah Carlson Hundreds of poor people waiting outside of a closed grocery store for the possibility of getting the remaining food is not the picture of the “American Dream.” Yet on March 23, outside the Laney Walker Supermarket in Augusta, Ga., that is exactly what happened. Residents […]
The Motor Force for Historical Regression or Advance by Prof. James Petras One of the most important and yet most neglected determinants of the outcomes of the economic crisis and resultant deepening of social inequalities and immiseration is the ‘class struggle’. In one of his most pithy metaphors, Karl Marx referred to class struggle as ‘the motor force of history’. […]
A Welshman stood at the Golden Gate his head bowed low
He meekly asked the man of fate the way he should go
‘What have you done?’ St. Peter said ‘to gain admission here?’
‘I merely mined for coal’ he said ‘for many a year’
St. Peter opened wide the gate and softly tolled the bell
‘Come and choose your harp’ he said ‘you’ve had your share of hell.’
