Socialist Organizer

Racism was originated to justify and preserve a slave-labor system that operated in the interests of capitalism in its pre-industrialist stages, and it was retained in slightly modified form by industrial capitalism after slavery became an obstacle to the further development of capitalism and had to be abolished. Few things in the world are more [...]

In mid-April, the government of Argentina carried out a partial renationalisation of the oil company YPF, formerly a national company that had been privatised in 1992, with a majority share owned by a Spanish company. It was not a revolutionary operation, an expropriation. No, the Argentinian state simply secured itself the majority share (51 percent) [...]

Anna Brown — a 29-year-old Black, homeless, mother of two children — died in a Richmond Heights jail cell as a result of racism, class exploitation, sexism, and the lack of a national health care system; all destructive arms of the monster that is the system in which we live today. Her story is resounding [...]

As Occupy and immigrant activists mobilized on May 1 this year, the issue of immigration came to the fore once again. This time the issue of concern was the likely prospect that the Supreme Court would give legitimacy to, and thus spur more, racist and anti-immigrant legislation across the country. On Wednesday, April 25, the [...]

Latino voters played a crucial role in the election of Barack Obama in 2008. The mandate of their vote was clear: legalize the undocumented and stop the ICE raids, deportations, and governmental repression. But Obama has so far betrayed this mandate. The New York Times reported on the sad-state of Obama’s immigration policies in an [...]

As the annual May Day demonstrations near, and immigrant rights and occupy activists alike prepare for local protests, the issue of immigration comes to the fore once again. This time the issue of concern is the likely prospect that the Supreme Court will give legitimacy to, and thus spur more, racist and anti-immigrant legislation across [...]