The present government, and the social order over which it presides, are in every sense a repudiation of the American Revolution and of the principles that found their most profound expression in the Declaration of Independence.
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250 years since the Declaration of Independence
The right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” is entirely bound up with the struggle for social equality.
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Frederick Douglass argued that the Constitution was an abolitionist document
"Freedom is the rule, slavery is the exception."
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The American Revolution not only freed its citizens from the domination of the British Empire; it was an inspiration to all progressive struggles in British society, from the anti-slavery movement to the radical movement for democratic reform.
Leon Trotsky in 1906: “The bourgeoisie has shamefully betrayed all the traditions of its historical youth, and its present hirelings dishonor the graves of its ancestors ... The proletariat has taken the honor of the revolutionary past of the bourgeoisie under its protection.”
US courts sentence 15 Prairieland defendants to 556 years in Trump’s fascist campaign against left-wing opposition
The scale of the sentences is extraordinary. Comparable prison terms are typically imposed in cases involving murder...
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250 years since the Declaration of Independence
#4thOfJuly
The 250th anniversary of the founding document of the American Revolution is being marked by the staggering crisis and decay of those original democratic principles.
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The defeat of 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette in Tuesday’s Democratic congressional primary in Denver, Colorado by #MelatKiros, a 29-year-old first-time candidate and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is another expression of the broad political radicalization developing in the United States.
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"The group of radicals that Frederick Douglass become part of argued that the Constitution was not simply an anti-slavery document but an abolitionist document." Watch The American Revolution and Its Place in History, only on the World Socialist Web Site.
There is great nervousness in the United States, the center of world imperialism, that the growing popular opposition to capitalism will produce an independent socialist movement based in the working class, taking as its example the October Revolution of 1917.
The official narrative of American politics for the past century has rested on the claim that the United States is the one country where support for socialism was permanently foreclosed. That narrative is collapsing.
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For 15 months between March 1929 and June 1930, nearly 10,000 miners in the northern coalfields of the state of New South Wales (NSW) were locked out in one of the longest and most violent class battles in Australian history.
It’s been 1000 days of Genocide in Gaza. Probably time to speak up now don’t you think?
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Dr. Desmond Tutu.
SILENCE IS COMPLICITY!