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Issue: 468

Apr 19, 2012

Commentary

Rosa Luxemburg: “The Revolution Will ‘Raise Itself up Again Clashing,’ and to Your Horror It Will Proclaim to the Sound of Trumpets: I Was, I Am, I Shall Be”

By Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

The imperialist war and the SPD leadership�s support for it nearly broke Luxemburg. In Germany, conditions for workers and soldiers were grim. Working class families spent 52 percent of their income on food and 33 percent on necessities such as housing, heating, lights and clothing. Whatever was left went to school fees for the children,…

The imperialist war and the SPD leadership�s support for it nearly broke Luxemburg. In Germany, conditions for workers and soldiers were grim. Working class families spent…

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Commentary

Raising Crops in Poor Countries to Feed the Rich or to Fuel Their Cars

By John Funiciello Columnist

The global economy is hard at work ensuring that the rich countries will have enough food to feed their affluent citizens, and now they are even ensuring that a large percentage of those crops will be raised for fuel, for the same people. We know that international investors are busily traveling around the world, either…

The global economy is hard at work ensuring that the rich countries will have enough food to feed their affluent citizens, and now they are even…

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Guest Commentary

Slavery on the New Plantation (updated March, 2012)

By Kiilu Nyasha Guest Commentator

As George Jackson noted in a KPFA interview with Karen Wald (Spring 1971), �I�m saying that it�s impossible, impossible, to concentration-camp resisters….We have to prove that this thing won�t work here. And the only way to prove it is resistance…and then that resistance has to be supported, of course, from the street….We can fight, but…

As George Jackson noted in a KPFA interview with Karen Wald (Spring 1971), �I�m saying that it�s impossible, impossible, to concentration-camp resisters....We have to prove that…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Help! Help! Save Us! Help! The Black people are going to eat us!

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The American landscape is starting to horrifically resemble a 1958 black n� white Godzilla flick…with Black folks filling the lead role of the prehistoric monster come-to-life, and TEA Partying White folks playing to the over-the-top hilt, the victimized role of the Japanese folks…running around in absolute terror as the tyrannical creature is about to devour…

The American landscape is starting to horrifically resemble a 1958 black n� white Godzilla flick...with Black folks filling the lead role of the prehistoric monster come-to-life,…

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Commentary

The Maroon Within Us

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

It is in this context that Dr. Hilliard provides several reasons why this devastating trend of cultural surrender is taking place. He says, ��we have tended to accept certain false dichotomies,� such as the following: �1. We have tended to equate sophisticated technology with culture, believing that such technology is exclusively European and that to…

It is in this context that Dr. Hilliard provides several reasons why this devastating trend of cultural surrender is taking place. He says, ��we have tended…

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