You Can’t Vote Against Fascism
Ahead of the 2024 Convention, CPUSA is split on two important quesitons: What is fascism? Is fascism already here? Cde-Editor Myrrh examines a woefully inadequate attempt by a party member to answer these questions.
North America
Hiding From the End of the World
This was the Met Gala of 2024: gold, lit by white phosphorous. One block from the Gala protestors chanted, “Gaza! Gaza!” and waved Palestinian flags.
Abbott’s Stormtroopers Beat Man to Death in Texas
Texas State Troopers — the Sturmabteilung of Texas Governor Greg Abbott — or possibly the Texas National Guard — beat a Honduran man to death on March 17, 2024 in the city of El Paso.
Pigs Riot at U.C. Irvine
On May 15 a pig army ran rampant at California’s UC Irvine…. $32 billion USD of the UC Irvine endowment is invested in zionist-allied or zionist-operated companies. This money supports the continued existence of the zionist state.
There Can Be No Mass Strike While the Labor Movement Slumbers
What would it require for every worker to militantly agree to go on strike, resist police attack, and prevent scabs from working? Why, not much. Only a total revolutionization of the labor movement.
Police Murder Reminds Us of Their True Purpose
There’s no mistaking it: U.S. police exist to brutalize the colonized, the poor, the mentally or socially “abnormal,”
The Night of the Ram
Tonight is the night of the ram and the truncheon. The arm swinging it wears a Democratic Party armband. Push just a little against the ruling class, and they will band together in a slavering mass of ghouls and devils. We see you; the students and the workers see you.
Yale Solidarity Encampment Advances the Struggle, Calls for Supplies and Aid
A second Yale Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which the organizers have dubbed a “liberated zone,” was erected in front of Sterling Memorial Hall at Cross Campus on April 28, 2024, in defiance of the University crackdown on Palestinian solidarity work.
Join the Student Revolt, Advance the Class Struggle
What has been the response of the Academy and the capitalist government? Swift repression. Suspension. Arrests… This year, let May Day commemorate the intensification of the protracted struggle to bring down the U.S.-Canadian capitalist empire!
Columbia University Students Continue to Clash With Capital
The students came prepared, equipped with tents and provisions. Their goal is to hold the space until the University met their demands regarding the institution’s complicity in the ongoing U.S.-backed genocide of Palestine – not a radical goal, by any means, but one which may be escalated in future days.