“The most violent, mean, and malignant passions of the human breast…” are the emotions that protectors and defenders of capitalism focus on those who seek to end the profit system and replace it with a more egalitarian system. This is what Karl Marx wrote in his...
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The Great Revolutionary Divide
Europe, mid-1800s: Two men stood at the center of a storm that would shape socialism’s future. Karl Marx, a German-born philosopher, believed in seizing the state (central government) and wielding its machinery to crush the ruling class. To him, power was a tool, not...
The Great Revolutionary Divide
Europe, mid-1800s: Two men stood at the center of a storm that would shape socialism’s future. Karl Marx, a German-born philosopher, believed in seizing the state (central government) and wielding its machinery to crush the ruling class. To him, power was a tool, not...
Casablanca’s Captain Renault Resurrected
Remember the famous line by Claude Rains as Captain Renault in Casablanca? After being told by his Nazi handlers to close Rick’s Cafe he relayed the ultimatum to Rick (played by Humphrey Bogart). Rick questioned why his cafe was being shutting? Renault simply...
Conditions Are Ripe for a Resistance Counter-Offensive
It’s been over ten long months that the forces of democracy have been on the defensive, doing our best to withstand the many and various assaults on us on issue after issue, but the tide is turning: -Trump’s polling numbers keep going down, at 36% positive and 60%...
The Magic Begging Bowl
‘One day a beggar knocked on the doors of a great king. By chance, the king himself opened the door. He saw the beggar: the beggar was not an ordinary beggar, he was almost luminous. He had such grace, such beauty, such a mysterious aura, that even the king felt...
The UN’s Financing Crisis: Who Pays, Who Doesn’t, and Why China’s Delays Matter
The United Nations is facing one of the gravest financial crises in its history. According to the UN Secretariat, by late 2025, only 145 of its 193 member states had paid their assessed contributions in full. That leaves 48 countries behind on their obligations, with...
Experiments in Futility: Australia’s Teenage Social Media Ban Approaches
The messiness of Australia’s social media ban for those under 16 as part of the Online Safety Act 2021 is becoming more apparent by the day. From December 10 this year, as announced by the commissar-minded eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, “age-restricted social...
Cocks Coming Back Home to, well, not Roost, but to Gouge, Scratch, Cut, Swipe, Kill
Hmm, genocide and boat captains and mates murdered by accused sexual predator and alcohol abusing Cap’n Crunch Pete, a-okay, but cock fights in how many states, a federal crime? This is yet more breaking news (sic) I have to contend with as I get ready to give a crowd...
Don’t Believe the Simulated Coup d’État in Guinea-Bissau
BAP’s U.S. Out of African Network & Africa Team co-sign the positions of our comrade, member organizations A-APRP & PAIGC It is important that African (Black) people around the world not fall for the latest amateurish attempt by the neo-colonialist puppet...
Donald Trump, Union Buster
Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor...
Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory
A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time, ordering their forces and disciplining their charges from straying. But straying happens, transgressions inevitable. Some are...