Why Are Things As They Are?

We Say Fightback http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/ Hundreds of Detroit Youth Walkout from Schools and Start Freedom Schools Two of 100 Detroit Public Schools students suspended for walking out of school to protest district-wide downsizing and to demand a better education started a “Freedom School” on Friday, across the street from their high school. Raychel Gafford and Freddie [...]

We Say FightBack! “The receipt of high monopoly profits by the capitalists in one of the numerous branches of industry, in one of the numerous countries, etc., makes it economically possible for them to bribe certain sections of the workers, and for a time a fairly considerable minority of them, and win them to the [...]

We Say Fightback! Paul Street will be a keynote Speaker at the Rouge Forum Conference.  Street is a Marxist whose leading influences beyond Marx include Gerrard Winstanley, Edward Palmer Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Rosa Luxembourg, Noam Chomsky, and John Pilger. Street is an outspoken critic of pseudo-populism, which is usually engineered with the help of mass [...]