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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."
Leon Trotsky. "Stalinism vs Bolshevism" (August 1937)
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Re: Don't poop if Obama fascists incite mayhem at riot, fatal to their boneheaded, fearless leader, 11.20.2009
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"Obama tried to hide his hookers, behind CLEAN COAL, for two years!" Actually, I think they were his Johns. Big coal. "Obama tried to lose the election, in DebateIII, to Joe the Plumber, but he was eclipsed by McCain, an experienced pilot,... read more discussion post on Fri, November 20, 2009 - 3:22 PM
Re: Contras = Terrorists
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I did. The ones I talked to didn't like the Contras at all and they thought the Sandinista autonomy program was good. This doesn't mean they were 100% happy, but they certainly didn't see the Sandinistas as some totalitarian murderous force as... read more discussion post on Fri, November 20, 2009 - 10:36 AM
Contras = Terrorists
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The so-called "InterAmerican Human Rights Commission" was controlled by the absolute worst human rights violators. As I recently pointed out to you regarding them in another thread: "I would add that the "InterAmerican Human Rights Commissio... read more discussion post on Fri, November 20, 2009 - 6:00 AM
Re: Outrage, Leonard Peltier Denied Parole
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Another of-topic lie from Erik. Here I answer Erik: uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/...6dcbdeac Free Leonard Peltier! video.google.com/videoplay read more discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 3:33 PM
Re: Outrage, Leonard Peltier Denied Parole
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Erik has posted a bunch of off topic lies here that I suppose I should answer to disarm his false charge of me be indifferent to anti-Semitism.
He posted pieces of a work by Marx which he falsely claims of me, "of course, you denied he wrote." ... read more discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 3:28 PM
More FOX "News" Lies
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Fox News again accused of airing misleading video news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts988 For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to cha... read more discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 2:52 PM
Re: Contras = Terrorists
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Erik says, "I dismiss your claptrap because it is based upon false premises. You know, like anti-Semitism and racism." What a liar you are. I've been consistantly 100% against racism and opposed to anti-Semitism. Much of what I post is in t... read more discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 2:27 PM
Re: Contras = Terrorists
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Actually, it is the "source is crap" argument. The article is packed with lies, which I might bother to answer if the came from anything that could remotely be coinsidered a source, but the fact that it comes from the Reverend Sun Myung Moo... read more discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 2:13 PM
Re: Contras = Terrorists
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Erik strikes out again. That pack of lies he linked us to, titled, "Will Sandinistas Face Justice?". has a 1999 News World Communications, Inc copyright. That is the media arm of Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. Reverend Sun Myung... read more discussion post on Thu, November 19, 2009 - 6:54 AM
Re: Contras = Terrorists
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Erik says, "Maybe I should proclaim that his [my] victory in his little suit against the government was a travesty of justice? Yeah, maybe he got away with his criminal behavior because the government didn't want to waste taxpayers dollars on so... read more discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 9:57 PM
Contras = Terrorists
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Brueke says, "And you can have socialist, capitalist, and moderate governments with no apparatus for Totalitarianism." True. And despite Erik's claims, this was the case with Sandinista rule in Nicaragua in the 80's. I think they needed to ... read more discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 9:34 PM
Re: Outrage, Leonard Peltier Denied Parole
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"He is America's Nelson Mandela" True. Personally, it didn't surprise me one bit that Clinton didn't lift a finger for justice and I warned Leonard Peltier supporters against placing their hope in Clinton during his presidency. He was the... read more discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 1:40 PM
Re: Outrage, Leonard Peltier Denied Parole
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Once again Erik ignores the evidence and resorts to repeating FBI lies. discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 1:19 PM
Re: Outrage, Leonard Peltier Denied Parole
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Say what? Erik, why don't you post a link to that discussion on Marx so that people can judge for themselves. Meanwhile, despite you're attempt to change the topic, despite your strange accusations of racism, and despite your irrelevant lect... read more discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 5:10 AM
Re: Outrage, Leonard Peltier Denied Parole
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Erik writes, "Indians can be criminals too. The cultural relativist noble savage concept is racist." Supporters of Peltier post the facts of the case showing Peltier was clearly framed, and Erik not only fails to answer any of this, he cuts ... read more discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 12:40 AM
Re: Outrage, Leonard Peltier Denied Parole
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Frontpage. Sort of like cutting and pasting from Stormfront. Great source if you're a raving right-wing lunatic and you don't care about little things like facts and journalist integrity. By the way, I'm on their blacklist of the "Politic... read more discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 12:21 AM
Re: Part 3, Slavery & the Origins of U.S. Capitalism
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Erik is like a parrot repeating the same line over and over again. "Sqwaaaak, Ever been there, Ever been There, Ever been there. Sqwaaaak!" No matter how irrelevant, like the parrot who knows few words, it's often the only argument he... read more discussion post on Tue, November 17, 2009 - 4:29 PM
Re: U.S. Capitalism in Decay
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Ed says, "Private enterprise and free markets would not have issued those bad loans. Only markets skewed and tampered with by federal government regulation could cause a fuck up that bad." Actually, deregulation was a major part of the proble... read more discussion post on Tue, November 17, 2009 - 4:20 PM
Re: U.S. Capitalism in Decay
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Seth says "the non-violence of capitalism" Just for starters: 16 million murdered by the inter-imperialist slaughter of capitalist nations in the First World War. 70 million murdered by the aggression of the capitalist Germany and the a... read more discussion post on Tue, November 17, 2009 - 4:26 AM
Re: U.S. Capitalism in Decay
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"Communism is just a form of capitalism where the state has a monopoly." I disagree. There is a big difference between capitalism, where there is private profit, and socialist state ownership where this is not the case. Government ownership... read more discussion post on Tue, November 17, 2009 - 3:56 AM
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