DOCSLIB.ORG

What Road to Socialism?

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
What Road to Socialism? What Road to Socialism? Road to What a workers world anthology Confronts the burning questions what and key contradictions during this deadly pandemic and global capitalist meltdown. Workers can road to win socialism through collective struggle. Long time and new activists discuss winning strategies in organizing against capitalism. socialism? a workers world anthology • COVID19 and the Deepening Crisis of Capitalism • Reform or Revolution larry holmes Workers World Workers makasi motema • The State and Building for Revolution teresa gutierrez • The Centrality of Fighting Racism monica moorehead • The working Class Will Make History sara flounders • Fighting All Forms of Oppression: deirdre griswold Gender, Sexuality, Disability & Age scott williams • Socialist Countries Lead the Way to the Future and others • What is Socialism? World World View Forum View workers.org/books Forum What Road to Socialism: An Anthology of Workers World Articles Copyright 2020 World View Forum, New York, NY We want to make the ideas in this book available as widely as possible. Any properly attributed selection, chapter or part of a chapter within “fair-use” guidelines may be used without permission. ISBN 978-0-89567-194-3 Production Coordinator: Raymond Tyler Cover Design: Ted Kelly Cartoons: Tony Murphy Book Production Team: Raymond Tyler.Ted Kelly, Makasi Motema, Scott Williams, Sara Flounders World View Forum 147 West 24th St, New York, NY 10011 Workers.org ii Table of Contents Article Page Socialist Demands for the Covid-19 Crisis 1 Section 1 COVID-19 and the Deepening Crisis of Capitalism Pandemic Has Hastened Capitalism’s End Stage; the Rest is Up to Us! 3 By Larry Holmes (May 12, 2020) Covid-19 and Basic Facts of Marxist Economics 11 By Deirdre Griswold (April 24, 2020) Cartoon 13 By Tony Murphy Growing Signs of Deepening Global Capitalist Crisis 14 By Ben Carroll (July 9, 2019) How Profits Drive the Capitalist Crisis 19 By Deirdre Griswold (March 22, 2020) Section 2 Reform or Revolution? What Road to Revolution? 22 By Larry Holmes (January 31, 2020) What Road to Socialism? 27 By Scott Williams (January 31, 2020) What Kind of Socialism? 32 WWP Editorial (February 19, 2020) ‘The Socialist Manifesto’ and The Rise of Social Democracy 34 By Scott Williams (September 10, 2019) A Revolutionary View of The Sanders Campaign 40 By Scott Williams (February 22, 2020) Which Road to Socialism: Bernie Sanders and Voting in a Pandemic 46 By Teresa Gutierrez (April 16, 2020) iii Section 3 The State & Building for a Revolution Mass Organizing to Win Revolutionary Socialism 51 By Makasi Motema (March 12, 2020) Lenin’s April Theses 55 By Deirdre Griswold (April 26, 2020) Return to Leninism: Centennial Anniversary of the Comintern 60 By Larry Holmes (April 26, 2020) Why We Say Free Them All! 69 By Monica Moorehead (April 14, 2020) Organizing Against the State 71 By John Catalinotto (2017) Section 4 Centrality of Fighting Racism Racism, Covid-19 and Black People - WW Commentary 75 By Monica Moorehead (April 6, 2020) A Revolutionary Understanding of The National Question 78 By Monica Moorehead (August 14, 2019) The Lies About Racism Are the Same at Home and Abroad 83 By Makasi Motema (December 27, 2019) Refugee Humanitarian Crisis 88 By Teresa Gutierrez (July 5, 2016) Section 5 The Working Class Will Make History Marx’s View of The Working Class Includes All Struggles 93 By Larry Holmes (June 8, 2018) A New Generation of Socialists is Coming 96 By Makasi Motema (March 16, 2019) The Coming Decade of Revolution 98 By Makasi Motema and Vincent Tacceta (January 11, 2020) A Road to Revolution 102 By Loan Tran (January 31, 2020) Working-Class Youth Want Socialism! 107 WWP Editorial (May 9, 2020) iv Cartoon 109 By Tony Murphy Section 6 Fighting Oppression! Gender, Sexuality, Disability & Age Task of a Party: Building Class Solidarity 111 By Monica Moorehead (November 24, 2009) Trans Lives, Revolutionary Lives 114 WWP Editorial (April 2, 2019) Zero Tolerance! Abusers Out! 116 WWP Editorial (February 7, 2020) Transgender Warrior Leslie Feinberg United All Struggles for Liberation 118 By Minnie Bruce Pratt (April 1, 2015) Together in Solidarity and Towards Socialism 122 By Kathy Durkin (January 16, 2020) Disability Rights: A Rich Theater of the Class Struggle 125 By Brian Shea (July 12, 2014) Covid-19 and the Crisis of the Elderly 128 By Teresa Guttierrez (April 22, 2020) Cartoon 131 By Tony Murphy Section 7 International Solidarity : Defending our Global Class Organizing Workers to Fight for Solidarity 133 By Larry Holmes (June 14, 2018) Coronavirus Highlights Gap Between Socialist and Capitalist Responses 136 By Joshua Hanks (March 22, 2020) China’s Socialist Planning and Covid-19 139 By Sara Flounders (April 4, 2020) Lesson from Cuba: Disaster Capitalism and Socialist Planning 144 By Nathaniel Chase U.S. Uses ‘Drug’ Lies to Menace Venezuela 149 By Raymond Tyler (April 28, 2020) Why the U.S. Threatens China—as a New Superpower 151 By Sara Flounders (December 27, 2019) v Cartoon 156 By Tony Murphy Cuba, Reforestation and the Climate Crisis 157 By Stephanie Hedgecoke (February 23, 2020) Section 8 What Is Socialism? What is Socialism? Part 1: Denmark, Imperialism and Social Democracy 165 By Deirdre Griswold (August 22, 2018) What is Socialism? Part 2: Lessons of an Early Socialist Experiment 168 By Deirdre Griswold (September 7, 2018) What is Socialism? Part 3: Lessons of the Paris and Shanghai Communes 173 By Deirdre Griswold (October 16, 2018) Sources 178 Subscribe 181 Apply to Join 182 vi Socialist Demands for the Covid-19 Crisis As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread, the government’s response to the crisis has been criminally negligent, while capitalists would rather risk workers’ health than stop production for profit. As the ruling class shows itself to be incapable of addressing the crisis, how can we, as working class and oppressed people, organize to meet our needs? What demands can we put forward in response? Workers World Party proposes the following 10 demands – which are a work in progress based on the fluidity of the crisis – as an initial socialist response to Covid-19: • Free healthcare for all • Nationalize the healthcare system under community control. Build emergency hospitals • Full pay, benefits and guaranteed income for all • Food, housing, medical supplies, and utilities including internet for all • Suspend rent, evictions, mortgages, utility shutoffs and ALL debt • Prioritize resources for communities of color, migrants, LGBTQ2+ people, seniors, youth, people with disabilities • Empty prisons and detention centers. Shut down ICE. End racist attacks • Community control. No cops. No military • $2 Trillion to the workers, not the banks • End U.S. wars, sanctions, and environmental destruction ♦ 1 Section 1 COVID-19 and the Deepening Crisis of Capitalism 2 Pandemic Has Hastened Capitalism’s End Stage; the Rest is Up to Us! By Larry Holmes (May 12, 2020) Last week workers celebrated International Workers’ Day 2020. There has been no other time in our lives when the message of May Day— global workers’ solidarity in the struggle against capitalism—has been more urgent. We have entered a decisive period. The scope of the world class struggle heading toward us will require more than solidarity from the working-class movement. It will require a level of coordination among organizations and movements around the world in the struggle against capitalism that didn’t even exist in the early years of the Third International under the leadership of V.I. Lenin. Conditions and technology have made what was not possible, possible. But first, those of us in the United States, the center of world imperialism, have our work cut out for us. The world capitalist economy, led by the U.S., is tumbling very quickly into a depression. It is likely to be more severe than any previous depression in the history of capitalism, because what is occurring now is the implosion of a system at its end stage. As staggering as the Covid-19 pandemic is on its own, in truth it has catalyzed a colossal world capitalist crisis that has been in the making for a long time. After being revived 75 years ago by World War II, U.S capitalism has for the last half century been sliding into its end stage. Globalization and the development of generations of technology, combined with a relentless assault on the living standards of the working class, have failed to stop the system’s decline. Capitalism has never recovered from the 2008 crash of the financial markets. Since then, financial markets have been on life support because central banks have pumped trillions of dollars into them. When U.S stocks nearly collapsed two months ago, the Federal Reserve did something extraordinary. Within a matter of days, it funneled about $5 trillion into U.S. financial markets — about one-quarter of the U.S. annual gross domestic product. Wall Street is now on what amounts to a financial respirator. Before the pandemic, the global economy had been stagnant in the U.S. and contracting elsewhere. Now, everywhere the economy is contracting at a rate faster than during the Great Depression. Those of us who have been anxiously awaiting the collapse of capitalism should restrain any inclination to rejoice. The Covid-19 pandemic and its 3 impact on the capitalist economy have unleashed a living hell on the workers and oppressed everywhere. Workers are dying from the pandemic, and they are losing their jobs at the same time. The rate of suicides is growing— and will continue to grow in direct correlation to the rising rate of joblessness, evictions, hunger, in addition to more sickness and death. The real number of workers who have just lost their jobs in the U.S.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Black Women As Activist Intellectuals: Ella Baker and Mae Mallory Combat Northern Jim Crow in New York City's Public Schools During the 1950S
    City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Publications and Research Hostos Community College 2019 Black Women as Activist Intellectuals: Ella Baker and Mae Mallory Combat Northern Jim Crow in New York City's Public Schools during the 1950s Kristopher B. Burrell CUNY Hostos Community College How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ho_pubs/93 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] £,\.PYoo~ ~ L ~oto' l'l CILOM ~t~ ~~:t '!Nll\O lit.ti t~ THESTRANGE CAREERS OfTHE JIMCROW NORTH Segregation and Struggle outside of the South EDITEDBY Brian Purnell ANOJeanne Theoharis, WITHKomozi Woodard CONTENTS '• ~I') Introduction. Histories of Racism and Resistance, Seen and Unseen: How and Why to Think about the Jim Crow North 1 Brian Purnelland Jeanne Theoharis 1. A Murder in Central Park: Racial Violence and the Crime NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Wave in New York during the 1930s and 1940s ~ 43 New York www.nyupress.org Shannon King © 2019 by New York University 2. In the "Fabled Land of Make-Believe": Charlotta Bass and All rights reserved Jim Crow Los Angeles 67 References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or John S. Portlock changed since the manuscript was prepared. 3. Black Women as Activist Intellectuals: Ella Baker and Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mae Mallory Combat Northern Jim Crow in Names: Purnell, Brian, 1978- editor.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Reports of the Selectmen and Other Town Officers
    NHamp 352.07 C47 1980 ANNUAL REPORTS CHARLESTOWN, N. H. 1980 Univetsitj of mwHampshire Library This 1980 Town Report is dedicated to Mrs. Mary Gray. She has been employed as the secretary to the Selectmen for many years. We are sure that the easy manner and pleasant atmosphere in which the business of the Town affairs are handled can be attributed directly to Mrs. Gray's always pleasant and "Wishing to help" attitude. We invite the people of Charlesown to join us, the Selectmen, and all other Town employees, in hoping that she continues with us for many years to come. (iANNUAL REPORTS OF THE SELECTMEN AND OTHER TOWN OFFICERS CHARLESTOWN, N. H. For the Year Ending December 31, 1980 Bring your Town Report to Town Meeting — March 10, 1981 Printed by HURD'S OFFSET PRINTING CORP. Springfield, Vermont NMamp 352.07 TABLE OF CONTENTS ^ Q J^ Abatements 56 Ambulance Report 91 Auditor's Opinion 48 Budget 1 981 34 Comparative Statement 39 Conservation Commission 90 Detailed Statement of Payments 62 Fall Mountain Visiting Nurses 93 Financial Report 40 Fire Department Report 77 Health Officer's Report 92 Inventory 1980 37 Librarian's Report 82 Library Trustees' Report 83 Medical Buildings Treasurer's Report 93 New Cemetery Accounts 81 Planning Board 84 Police Department Report 87 Revenue Administration 38 Revenue Sharing Account 49 Schedule of Long Term Indebtedness 47 Schedule of Town Property 37 Statement of Debt 47 Selectmen's Report 1 04 Tax Collector's Report 51 Town Clerk's Report 50 Town Committees 3 Town Officers 3 Town Warrant 1 981 4 Treasurer's Report 58 Trust Funds 80 Vital Statistics 98 Water and Sewer Departments 94 Cover Picture: Aerial view of Cliarlestown village Photo by Jim Hearne TOWN OFFICERS 1980 Dana E.
    [Show full text]
  • The Crusader Monthll,J Nelijsletter
    THE CRUSADER MONTHLL,J NELIJSLETTER ROBERT F. WILLIAMS, EDITOR -IN EXILE- VoL . ~ - No. 9 MAY 1968 Afro-Americans & Slick John Kennedy Government of the United States is no government T~E of the Afro-Americans at all. The slick John Ken- nedy gang is operating one of the greatest sham govern- ment in the entire world. Afro-Americans and fair minded Od > ~- O THE wN«< /l~USL . lF Yov~Re EyER IN NE60, CALL ME AT whites must be gullible indeed to believe that the racist, KKK dominated so-called U.S. Government is concerned with the welfare and human rights of colored people. The colored people of the USA must bring themselves to realize that taken integration is a slick manuever to check the restlessness of an oppressed people fast becoming infect ed with the germ of total resistance policy developing among all of the oppressed peoples of the world. Token integration means nothing to the masses. Even an idiot should be able to see that so-called Token integration is no more than window dressing designed to lull the poor downtrodden Afro-American to sleep and to make the out side world think that the racist, savage USA is a fountainhead of social justice and democracy. The Afro-American in the USA is facing his greatest crisis since chattel slavery. All forms of violence and underhanded methods o.f extermination are being stepped up against our people. Contrary to what the "big daddies" and their "good nigras" would have us believe about all of the phoney progress they claim the race is making, the True status of the Afro-Ameri- can is s#eadily on the down turn.
    [Show full text]
  • New Pathways in Civil Rights Historiography
    Jeanne Theoharris, Komozi Woodard, eds.. Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. vii + 326 pp. $26.95, paper, ISBN 978-0-312-29468-7. Reviewed by Patrick Jones Published on H-1960s (June, 2005) A few weeks into my "Civil Rights Movement" point. I want to contest my students' ready no‐ seminar, I place a series of images on the over‐ tions of the movement as they think they know it. head projector. One shows a long, inter-racial pro‐ Over the remainder of the semester, we set off on cession of movement activists marching down a an academic adventure to develop a more compli‐ street lined with modest homes, lifting signs and cated understanding of white supremacy and singing songs. Another depicts a sneering young struggles for racial justice. white man stretching a large confederate fag. Yet Admittedly, this brief exercise is a bit cheap another portrays three angry white men, faces and gimmicky, but the visual trickery conveys an contorted in rage, holding a crudely scrawled sign important point that is not soon lost on my stu‐ with the words "white power." I ask my students dents: most of us have been taught to accept, un‐ to scan these images for clues that might unlock critically, a certain narrative of the civil rights their meaning. Of course, they have seen such movement. This narrative focuses mainly on the photos before, from Montgomery and Little Rock, South and privileges well-known leaders, non-vio‐ Birmingham and Selma, and invariably it is these lent direct action, integration, and voting rights.
    [Show full text]
  • Justice for Andrew Brown Jr
    Espíritu del Primero de Mayo 12 Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 63, No. 18 May 6, 2021 $1 Another police murder in North Carolina Justice for Andrew Brown Jr. By Peter Gilbert Elizabeth City, N.C. May 1— Seven deputies from the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Department killed unarmed Andrew Brown Jr. in his car next to his home here April 21. The dep- uties jumped out of a pickup truck with weapons drawn and rushed forward. Fearing for his life, Brown tried to drive forward out of his driveway and away. Deputy sher- iffs fired into his car from behind, killing him. An autopsy commissioned by Brown’s family confirms he was killed by a bullet to the back of the Protests against police violence continue night and day in Elizabeth City, May 2. WW PHOTOS: PETER GILBERT head. At least three of the depu- ties fired their weapons; none of them have been charged. Four have been a kind man who provided for his family been a violent person in his life. He’s declined in prosperity. returned to active duty. despite the lack of jobs or opportunities in never had a gun, never carried a gun, and The swamp was once a haven for Protests have continued each night Elizabeth City. He lived in a quiet neigh- he’s just not violent." enslaved people who had liberated them- for ten nights since the police execution borhood south of downtown, across the selves from surrounding plantations. The of Andrew Brown Jr., as the community Charles Creek where he had been raised Enslavement, forced labor, militarism swamp played an important role as cover mourns.
    [Show full text]
  • Désintégration Dans La « Période Post-Soviétique » La Spartacist League Soutient Les Troupes Américaines À Haïti !
    No. 1 Second Quarter 2010 Contents On Optimism & Pessimism (1901) – by Leon Trotsky Resignation from the International Bolshevik Tendency The Road Out of Rileyville Introduction to Marxist Polemic Series League for the Revolutionary Party’s “Revisions of Basic Theory” Disintegration in the “Post-Soviet Period” Spartacist League Supports US Troops in Haiti! League for the Revolutionary Party/ Internationalist Socialist League on the Revolution in Palestine/ Israel Worshipers of the Accomplished Fact On Feminism & “Feminism” James P. Cannon’s “Swivel Chair Revelation” (1959) Désintégration dans la « période post-soviétique » La Spartacist League soutient les troupes américaines à Haïti ! Downloaded from www.regroupment.org Labor Donated Leon Trotsky on Optimism & Pessimism (1901) The following short excerpt by a young Leon Trotsky is being reprinted as the introduction for this journal’s first issue. It is symbolic of the journal’s determination to succeed in its endeavor and its underlying confidence in the capacity of the working class to break the chains of oppression and inaugurate a new chapter in human history. Samuel Trachtenberg May 1, 2010 Dum spiro spero! [While there is life, there‘s hope!] ... If I were one of the celestial bodies, I would look with complete detachment upon this miserable ball of dust and dirt ... I would shine upon the good and the evil alike ... But I am a man. World history which to you, dispassionate gobbler of science, to you, book-keeper of eternity, seems only a negligible moment in the balance of time, is to me everything! As long as I breathe, I shall fight for the future, that radiant future in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizon of beauty, joy, and happiness! ..
    [Show full text]
  • E!A!! by Barry Sheppard Later Scaled Down to 10,000
    N. Y.Pro-War Marth TH£ A ResoundingFiasto Md~~~e!A!! By Barry Sheppard later scaled down to 10,000. The from the department of highways, police said 6,840. One reporter for Vol. 31 - No. 19 Monday, May 8, 1967 Price 10¢ NEW YORK - A march down etc. the New York Times counted Fifth Avenue in support of the A handful of despondent-looking 3,380, and another Times reporter, war in Vietnam on April 29, billed some blocks away, 3,717. marchers walked behind the "Wa­ by its sponsors as the "answer" ter Department" banner - no to the massive April 15 marches In a similar "Loyalty" march in against the war, was a dismal Brooklyn, police put the figure at doubt city employes dependent for flop. The fiasco clearly demon­ 4,500, just about the same figure their jobs on patronage, dragooned the Times reporter there gave. PeruvianGuards strated the lack of popular support out for the occasion. There were for this war. Even if one accepts .the police a few other such groups from The pro-war march, organized estimates - which were designed other city government depart­ by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to minimize the massive antiwar took the form of the annual march and maximize the pitiful ments. pro-war march, the antiwar fight­ Besides VFW units, there were BeatUp Blanco "Loyalty Day" parade. "Loyalty Day" itself was set up in 1947 ers outdid the war fanatics by contingents from some military (World Outlook) - The Paris rid of Hugo Blanco. In view of the as the "answer" to May Day, the about 9 to 1! The real figures high schools, military reserve office of World Outlook learned worldwide publicity in the case, international workers' holiday.
    [Show full text]
  • Africa Latin America Asia 110101101
    PL~ Africa Latin America Asia 110101101 i~ t°ica : 4 shilhnns Eurnna " fi F 9 ahillinnc Lmarica - .C' 1 ;'; Africa Latin America Asia Incorporating "African Revolution" DIRECTOR J. M . Verg6s EDITORIAL BOARD Hamza Alavi (Pakistan) Richard Gibson (U .S.A.) A. R. Muhammad Babu (Zanzibar) Nguyen Men (Vietnam) Amilcar Cabrera (Venezuela) Hassan Riad (U.A .R .) Castro do Silva (Angola) BUREAUX Britain - 4. Leigh Street, London, W. C. 1 China - A. M. Kheir, 9 Tai Chi Chang, Peking ; distribution : Guozj Shudian, P.O . Box 399, Peking (37) Cuba - Revolucibn, Plaza de la Revolucibn, Havana ; tel. : 70-5591 to 93 France - 40, rue Franqois lei, Paris 8e ; tel. : ELY 66-44 Tanganyika - P.O. Box 807, Dar es Salaam ; tel. : 22 356 U .S.A. - 244 East 46th Street, New York 17, N. Y. ; tel. : YU 6-5939 All enquiries concerning REVOLUTION, subscriptions, distribution and advertising should be addressed to REVOLUTION M6tropole, 10-11 Lausanne, Switzerland Tel . : (021) 22 00 95 For subscription rates, see page 240. PHOTO CREDITS : Congress of Racial Equality, Bob Adelman, Leroy McLucas, Associated Press, Photopress Zurich, Bob Parent, William Lovelace pp . 1 to 25 ; Leroy LcLucas p . 26 ; Agence France- Presse p . 58 ; E . Kagan p . 61 ; Photopress Zurich p . 119, 122, 126, 132, 135, 141, 144,150 ; Ghana Informa- tion Service pp . 161, 163, 166 ; L . N . Sirman Press pp . 176, 188 ; Camera Press Ltd, pp . 180, 182, 197, 198, 199 ; Photojournalist p . 191 ; UNESCO p . 195 ; J .-P . Weir p . 229 . Drawings, cartoons and maps by Sine, Strelkoff, N . Suba and Dominique and Frederick Gibson .
    [Show full text]
  • Robert F. Williams, Negroes with Guns, Ch. 3-5, 1962
    National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox The Making of African American Identity: Vol. III, 1917-1968 Robert F. Williams R. C. Cohen Negroes With Guns *1962, Ch. 3-5 Robert F. Williams was born and raised in Monroe, North Carolina. After serving in the Marine Cops in the 1950s, he returned to Monroe and in 1956 assumed leadership of the nearly defunct local NAACP chapter; within six months its membership grew from six to two-hundred. Many of the new members were, like him, military veterans trained in the use of arms. In the late 1950s the unwillingness of Southern officials to address white violence against blacks made it increasingly difficult for the NAACP to keep all of its local chapters committed to non-violence. In 1959, after three white men were acquitted of assaulting black women in Monroe, Williams publicly proclaimed the right of African Americans to armed self-defense. The torrent of criticism this statement brought down on the NAACP prompted its leaders — including Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins, and Martin Luther King, Jr. — to denounce Williams. The NAACP eventually suspended him, but he continued to make his case for self-defense. Williams in Tanzania, 1968 Chapter 3: The Struggle for Militancy in the NAACP Until my statement hit the national newspapers the national office of the NAACP had paid little attention to us. We had received little help from them in our struggles and our hour of need. Now they lost no time. The very next morning I received a long distance telephone call from the national office wanting to know if I had been quoted correctly.
    [Show full text]
  • The Government Doesn't Work
    World capital and Thelma and Louise Stalinism slew the "R" Us, writes Soviet economy Clara Fraser Page 6 Page 9 ~ Freedom Socialist Wile 1? /?evpf"'fl1t4~ 1iMiN;M. May-July 1992 Volume 13, Number 3 (51.00 outside U.S.) 75c Let's tool up for a new system! . The government doesn't work BY MATT NAGLE ing-class white men are under at­ n the good 01' USA, the sun is shin­ tack in the streets, ing, the birds are singing, the flow­ courts, and legis­ ers are blooming - but the govern­ latures. Unions are Iment is sputtering, hacking and besieged, radicals wheezing in the throes of terminal do­ are persecuted. nothingness. The cities are poi­ We should all be delighted! soned war zones The fact that this inhuman, infernal, and the earth is be­ damned system is rapidly killing itself ing destroyed. means our chance to bust out of these So the politi­ dark days is tantalizingly close. cians talk about The U.S. government has developed meeting our needs, into a tiresome, petty passel of squab­ but they can't and .=============="":"'"=~ bling, spoiled rich kids and everybody won't do anything. ~.MFoi~tr.RK_flMI!JiN;.IbaI~iMH!Hl··~_IJIbo~iIoU;.,"'""'-l.&.lu~~~~ ~~ to' a halt '\'fet'clU'se' th~'~pita\ls't'S)'.nem ,.~ problem~rwtthc that the government administers is out changing the cracking up. system - and they The Democrats and Republicans are are the system. feudin' like the Hatfields and McCoys. Leaders don't The Dems don't have the guts or a emerge from cess­ reason to stand up to the Republicans, pools.
    [Show full text]
  • Mae Mallory Papers
    THE MAE MALLORY COLLECTION Papers, 1961-1967 (Predominantly, 1962-1963) 1 linear foot Accession Number 955 L.C. Number The papers of Mae Mallory were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in January of 1978 by General Baker and were opened for research in December of 1979. Mae Mallory (also known as Willie Mae Mallory) was born in Macon, Georgia on June 9, 1927. She later went to live in New York City with her mother in 1939. She became active in the black civil rights movement and was secretary of the organization, Crusaders for Freedom. She was closely associated with the ultra-militant leader of the NAACP chapter in Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams, who advocated that blacks arm them- selves in order to defend their rights. In 1961 she, Williams and others were charged with kidnap pong a white couple during a racial disturbance in Monroe. She fled to Cleveland, Ohio, to avoid arrest, but was imprisoned from 1962 to 1964 in the Cuyahoga County Jail to await extradition to North Carolina to face trial. Williams, who, like Mallory, protested his innocence of the charges, fled via Canada to Cuba and later China. In 1964 she was returned to Monroe, stood trial, and was convicted. She appealed the sentence, and in the following year the North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed the case because blacks had been excluded from the grand jury. The material in this collection reflects Mallory's participation in the civil rights movement and documents her period of imprisonment. Important subjects covered in the collection are: Black activism (1960's) Civil rights movement Monroe Defense Committee Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) Robert F.
    [Show full text]
  • How the History of Female Presidential Candidates Affects Political Ambition and Engagement Kaycee Babb Boise State University GIRLS JUST WANNA BE PRESIDENT
    Boise State University ScholarWorks History Graduate Projects and Theses Department of History 5-1-2017 Girls Just Wanna Be President: How the History of Female Presidential Candidates Affects Political Ambition and Engagement KayCee Babb Boise State University GIRLS JUST WANNA BE PRESIDENT: HOW THE HISTORY OF FEMALE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AFFECTS POLITICAL AMBITION AND ENGAGEMENT by KayCee Babb A project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Historical Research Boise State University May 2017 © 2017 KayCee Babb ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE COLLEGE DEFENSE COMMITTEE AND FINAL READING APPROVALS of the thesis submitted by KayCee Babb Thesis Title: Girls Just Wanna Be President: The Impact of the History of Female Presidential Candidates on Political Ambition and Engagement Date of Final Oral Examination: April 13, 2017 The following individuals read and discussed the thesis submitted by student KayCee Babb, and they evaluated her presentation and response to questions during the final oral examination. They found that the student passed the final oral examination. Jill Gill, Ph.D. Chair, Supervisory Committee Jaclyn Kettler, Ph.D. Member, Supervisory Committee Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Ph.D. Member, Supervisory Committee The final reading approval of the thesis was granted by Jill Gill, Ph.D., Chair of the Supervisory Committee. The thesis was approved for the Graduate College by Tammi Vacha-Haase, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate College. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to thank my thesis advisor Dr. Jill Gill from the History Department at Boise State University. Their office door was always open for questions, but more often for the expression of stress and frustration that I had built up during these last two years.
    [Show full text]