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April 13, 2020

The US Civil War was Second American Revolution

President Abraham Lincoln meets with officers of Union army in 1862. Second American Revolution abolished chattel slavery, also marked the end of progressive political role of U.S. bourgeoisie, wrote Novack.

…available from Pathfinder. This excerpt from the chapter “The Civil War — Its Place in History” is a powerful answer to some liberal or radical political views current today that…





January 22, 2024

Reactionary gov’t in Iran key to Mideast conflict

Tehran, March 8, 1979: 100,000 women, men protest attempt to impose compulsory head covering on women after overturn of U.S.-backed shah. Regime wasn’t able to impose hijab until 1983, as bourgeois clerical counterrevolution consolidated. Regime is trying to extend its reactionary influence across the region.

…More than 500 people were killed. Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad unleashed massive repression in a failed attempt to quell a popular uprising in 2011. Tehran-backed militias and Moscow’s airstrikes were…


January 15, 2024

Constitutional rights fight key in class struggle

FBI raids Socialist Workers Party headquarters in Minneapolis June 1941, as Roosevelt administration led assault on constitutional freedoms to silence opposition in labor movement to U.S. rulers’ preparations for World War II.

…government attack were won by struggles of working people and two great revolutions, in 1776 and the Civil War. These freedoms are under serious assault. “Bourgeois and upper-middle-class political forces,…



January 29, 2024

Defend right of Israel to exist as a refuge for Jews

Fight to destroy Hamas is in interests of all workers
Protest at U.N. World Court in The Hague Jan. 11 as South African rulers’ case charging Israel with ”genocide” opened. Protesters said case is political and legal cover for Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom against Jews in Israel, which the Tehran-backed outfit says it will do “again and again.”

…Houthis — about 35% of the country’s population — has been fighting a civil war there against Saudi-backed former government forces for years. With arms and training from Tehran, the…