Dr. Lenore J. Daniels, PhD

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 quite enormous slave herds of Prusso-German state employers, railroad workers and postal workers, as well as the farm workers, who unfortunately enjoy very limited measure of that contented preoccupation with “organizations, meetings, and options of all sorts” as long as the right to organize is legally or practically denied them. Whole categories of workers,…

The purchase of Obama from the auction block by the rulers of the U.S. Empire did not come about because the already enslaved Obama admired the trinkets and power of the system over and above freedom. The rulers had and still have plenty of such creatures among the advanced colored people who are just so…

The letters written before she takes up the task of responding to Bernstein reveals a woman who keeps before her the uprisings of enslaved workers attempting to free themselves from the stranglehold of the capitalists, the ruling class, while the SPD leaders were capitulating to the demands of the capitalists. (Sounds similar to the so-call…

If our two young men return in coffins, the steel-like �patriotism� of wartime counselors, generals, and presidents, will be represented by the metals decorating the uniforms concealing the horrific wounds they sustained and the local press will print the word �hero� alongside their names. But only family and the community of friends and neighbors speak…

And we love him and many of us see in him a model for our lives, not because he was Black but because he was anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism – a man of and for the people, the working class, the poor. Malcolm was murdered, assassinated with the help of the Nation of Islam, by the forces…

The people had been taught to despise themselves because they were left with barren land and dry rivers. But they were wrong. It was the white people who had nothing; it was the white people who were suffering as thieves do, never able to forget that their pride was wrapped in something stolen, something that…

I cannot end this article without commenting on Chris Hedges� article, �The Cancer in Occupy,� (Truthdig, February 6, 2012). I do not agree with all of its points or with Hedges� uncompromising stand on non-violence as a strategy for confronting the criminals of Wall Street, but I do agree – there is a �cancer� in…