Another good one. Thanks for posting it Harmen.
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My Blog Photo: Clinic in Havana. It is telling that Cuba, once a backward neocolony of the U.S., has since the overthrow of capitalist/imperialist rule provided health care to all at a level where they have the same life expectancy as the U.S., despite the poverty of the island, enforced by the U.S. embargo and further exacerbated by the 1991-92 counterrevolution in the USSR. [For various reasons, I support the International Group (IG), League for the Fourth International instead of the Spara... read more 
Health Care = 'I Don't Care'
Fri, September 18, 2009 - 8:03 AM
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[col. writ. 8/29/09] (c) '09 Mumia Abu-Jamal As the White House and Congress square off on health care, take care, because the deals with the big dogs have been made -- and the people will be -- once again -- left holding an empty bag. That's because in the opening hours of this drama, the central issue -- single payer -- was given away, in an attempt to attract the support of big insurance companies. A pre-pay-off, if you will, to show them... read more  Inspiration for movie `Norma Rae' dies at 68 Labor organizer succumbed to long battle with brain cancer Associated Press updated 5:52 p.m. ET, Mon., Sept . 14, 2009 RALEIGH, North Carolina - Crystal Lee Sutton, whose fight to unionize Southern textile plants with low pay and poor conditions was dramatized in the film "Norma Rae," has died. She was 68. Sutton died Friday in a hospice after a long battle with brain cancer, her son, Jay Jordan, said Monday. "She fought it as l... read more 
Photo: Capitalists of Honduras hold an emergency meeting to ratify their support for coup leader Micheletti, 20 July. (Photo: Resistencia Honduras)
Thu, September 10, 2009 - 11:14 PM
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Sweep Away the Coup Plotters, Generals and Capitalists! Fight for a Workers and Peasants Government! Honduras: The First Coup of the Obama Administration An abbreviated version of this article appeared in The Internationalist No. 29 (Summer 2009). This is a full translation of the Spanish-language article from the El Internacionalista s... read more 
[Photo: The work of would be "reformer" Mosavi. Families visiting unmarked graves at Khavaran grave site in south Tehran. Khavaran is the burial place for many of the thousands of political prisoners who were executed in 1988 when Mir-Hossein Mousavi was prime minister. In January, authorities sent bulldozers to cover the graves with soil and plant trees, destroying numerous ad-hoc grave markings placed there by families, in an attempt to eliminate evidence of the massacre. During the elec...
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"Reactionary epochs like ours not only disintegrate and weaken the working class and its vanguard but also lower the general ideological level of the movement and throw political thinking back to stages long since passed through. In these conditions the task of the vanguard is above all not to let itself be carried along by the backward flow: it must swim against the current. If an unfavourable relation of forces prevents it from holding political positions it has won, it must at least retain its ideological positions, because in them is expressed the dearly paid experience of the past. Fools will consider this policy "sectarian." Actually it is the only means of preparing for a new tremendous surge forward with the coming historical tide."
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Another good one. Thanks for posting it Harmen.
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True. discussion post on Wed, October 21, 2009 - 11:15 AM
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