Politics
GOP maneuvers to block Heroes Act will bring the roof down
July 27, 2020Millions more face poverty, suffering, and even death if the Heroes Act already passed in the House doesn’t become law.
Read moreTrump’s fascist political strategy
July 27, 2020Since Trump's U.S. Senate allies protected him from prosecution during his impeachment, he has a powerful incentive to continue disobeying the law. There remain few forms of Constitutional authority to check his power.
Read moreIllinois Communists condemn Trump’s move toward guns and secret police
July 24, 2020“The City of Chicago is united in rejecting the provocation of the Trump administration in sending hundreds of militarized, highly armed secret-police gunmen into our streets in the midst of a public health crisis and economic...
Read moreHouse votes to toss statues of rebels from U.S. Capitol
July 24, 2020The Democratic-run U.S. House voted to eject statues of Confederate leaders, plus racist U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, from the U.S. Capitol, especially Statuary Hall.
Read moreConfederate statues are monuments to the ‘Lost Cause’ cult of white supremacy
July 23, 2020Confederate monuments are not memorials to fallen soldiers or to victims of war: They are intentional instruments in revisionist U.S. history pushing a sympathetic view of the Confederacy.
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