Why Are Things As They Are?

The Education Agenda Is A War Agenda An Imperialist War Agenda A Class War Agenda This is capitalism. It is not the highest or last stage of human development. There is a connection between capitalism and imperialism, exploitation and war. One begets the other. The key reasons for the attacks on working people and schools [...]

February 21, 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the Communist Manifesto. In a letter dated London, 12 and 13 June 1883, Friedrich Engels enclosed a present for Eduard Bernstein. It is a handwritten page of the Communist Manifesto from 1848. “Enclosed is a part of the original draft of the concluding chapter from [...]

Hate is not the Opposite of Love. Indifference is. They Say Get Back! We Say Fight Back! Strike, Educate, Agitate, Occupy on March 4th to Transform Public Education. Defend Education from the Ruling Classes! On the Little Rouge School Front: Call For Proposals–Rouge Forum Conference August 2-5, 2010: http://www.rougeforumconference.org/ Detroit Federation of Teachers Uses Cops [...]

Spectacle Schmectacle: Remember the March 4th Strike! Check Out Miami’s Paul Moore on the Superbowl: http://www.richgibson.com/blog/?p=122#comments The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. [...]