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Written by the UCPA Editorial Board
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Monday, 29 March 2010 06:02 |
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s plan to “downsize” the city by forcibly removing tens of thousands of residents from their homes and neighborhoods, and then demolishing those areas to create a no-man’s land that will be sold off piece-by-piece to speculators in the future, is already sparking a massive popular backlash and opposition.
And rightly so. Bing’s plan of forcible relocation and destruction is a form of economically-motivated ethnic cleansing, especially since it is predicated on the idea of the city government taking that land and selling it off to real estate developers and speculators.
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Written by the UCPA Editorial Board
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Monday, 22 March 2010 06:02 |
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The passage of any kind of “reform” measure, whether or not it is something meaningful, is always organized as if it were some kind of big premiere of a Broadway musical or big-budget Hollywood blockbuster movie.
And it doesn’t take long before the glitter and shine of these “reform” measures have worn off and people begin to turn against them — even going so far as wanting them repealed and joining together with reactionary forces to overturn them.
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Written by the UCPA Editorial Board
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Monday, 08 March 2010 06:01 |
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This year marks the centennial of the celebration of International Working Women’s Day, often wrongly shortened simply to “International Women’s Day.” Every March 8 is honored by the international working people’s movement with festivities recognizing the role and contribution of women workers.
The first Working Women’s Day was held in 1909, here in the U.S. The Working Women’s Commission of the Socialist Party of America had persuaded the party as a whole to adopt February 28 of that year as a day of reflection and celebration.
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Written by the UCPA Editorial Board
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Monday, 15 March 2010 06:01 |
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This coming Saturday, March 20, two events will take place. In Washington, D.C., antiwar activists will be gathering to commemorate the anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq and protest ongoing U.S. involvement.
This will be the standard protest affair: puppets and signs and banners and leaflets and literature tables and left groups all begging the Democrats to “stop the war.” Some might throw in a radical phrase or two, or even talk about the working class.
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Written by the UCPA Editorial Board
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Monday, 01 March 2010 06:01 |
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When it comes to the question of public education, no amount of reform, including those we advocate, are enough to establish a genuinely high-quality educational system for working people in the 21st century.
Indeed, what is needed is a revolutionary working-class solution to the crisis in public education. In our view, that means working people organizing and taking the lead in the fight to wrest control of education from the exploiting and oppressing classes, as part of a broader fight for a future that works for working people.
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