Issue: 494
Nov 15, 2012
Commentary
Anti Realism
Guest Commentator
Compassion trumped politics and realism prevailed. It has been quite entertaining watching the post election results analysis, particularly among Republican strategists, pundits and commentators. “The pollsters lied to us.” “The Romney campaign operatives lied to us.” “The party leadership lied to us.” The Republicans, including the likes of Newt Gingrich, Joe Scarborough and other prominent…
Compassion trumped politics and realism prevailed. It has been quite entertaining watching the post election results analysis, particularly among Republican strategists, pundits and commentators. “The pollsters…
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Cover Story
Defeating A 3-Headed Monster
Editorial Board
One task for the Black Left is to organize Black workers.The election is over. Barack Obama won again. His victory is our victory because the forces lined up behind Romney represented economic elitism, white supremacy, and religious-based authoritarianism…a three-head monster whose agenda is opposed to anything that approaches a progressive view on society. The threat…
One task for the Black Left is to organize Black workers.The election is over. Barack Obama won again. His victory is our victory because the forces…
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Guest Commentary
The 2012 U.S. Elections and the Future of the Left – By Bill Fletcher, Jr. – BC Editorial Board – and
Guest Commentator
In the lead up to the 2012 elections the Left was badly divided over how to respond. The 2012 elections may prove to have been a watershed in several different respects. Despite the efforts by the political Right to suppress the Democratic electorate, something very strange happened: voters, angered by the attacks on their rights,…
In the lead up to the 2012 elections the Left was badly divided over how to respond. The 2012 elections may prove to have been a…
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Commentary
Obama Ground Operation 2012: Fusion Of Information Technology And Grassroots Organizing
Editorial Board
The Obama campaign does not have a monopoly on the technology for organizing. In our offering this week, we analyze the ground operation for victory in 2012 and seek to draw lessons for the progressive forces as the contradictions deepen between the one per cent and the 99 per cent at this historical conjuncture. The…
The Obama campaign does not have a monopoly on the technology for organizing. In our offering this week, we analyze the ground operation for victory in…
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Commentary
Malawi’s LGBTQ’s Short-Lived Freedom
Editorial Board
The church willfully operates under colonial rule with its ecclesiastical edicts toward its LGBTQ brethren.I’d like to believe that Malawi’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) citizens and tourists had a few days to breathe easier. On November 5, the government issued a moratorium, suspending all laws criminalizing homosexuality. Three days later, on November…
The church willfully operates under colonial rule with its ecclesiastical edicts toward its LGBTQ brethren.I’d like to believe that Malawi’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer…
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Commentary
Barack Obama and the New Plantation
Editorial Board
“I freed a thousand slaves – I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” The ‘masters’ of this present-day New Plantation are the corporate elite and their minions; the field slaves are the ordinary people.The insidious role of many so-called ‘mulattos’ on slave plantations in the U.S., Haiti, and…
“I freed a thousand slaves - I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” The ‘masters’ of this present-day New…
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