Occupy Wall Street forces called an “Occupy Homecoming” June 1 in Zuccotti Park near Wall Street in lower Manhattan, N.Y. The park, the site of a historic occupation in the fall of 2011, is becoming a “movement center.” Each day, from 9 in the morning until 9 at night, activists will gather for classes, political [...]
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Cooper Union students seize president’s office
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Caleb T. Maupin May 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
May 20 — The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Society and Art is a New York City college that has long been associated with progressive politics and activism. The college was a center of the abolitionist movement, and Abraham Lincoln gave a historic anti-slavery address there in 1860. In more recent times, Latin American [...]
Film vividly shows how Angela Davis was freed
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Caleb T. Maupin April 18, 2013 » Add the second comment.
The power of the recently released film, “Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners,” directed by Shola Lynch and now showing at select AMC theaters around the country, is its ability to place Angela Davis’ trial in proper historical context. The film is not only about the arrest and trial of one political activist, but [...]
Hurricane Sandy & the road to socialism
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Caleb T. Maupin February 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Excerpts from a talk by Caleb T. Maupin, WWP youth organizer, at the Nov. 17-18, 2012, Workers World Party conference in New York. See video at youtube.com/wwpvideo. The revolutionary African-American poet Langston Hughes wrote this poem for a large gathering of Communists in 1932: “Put one more ‘S’ in the U.S.A. And make it Soviet [...]
Jones, Hitler & gun control
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Caleb T. Maupin February 8, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Alex Jones, the ultra-right-wing radio host, has made a name for himself in recent weeks by rabidly denouncing proposed gun control legislation. He yelled at CNN interviewer Piers Morgan, but in his tirade Jones stated many historical inaccuracies. For example, he claimed that socialist countries like the former Soviet Union outlawed guns. In reality, hunting [...]
Syria & the global class war
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Caleb T. Maupin January 20, 2013 » Add the second comment.
WW youth perspective Jobs are disappearing. Homes are being foreclosed and families tossed into the streets. Super hurricanes, spawned by climate change, batter cities. Schools are being shut down, and prisons are springing up in their place. Police bullets are taking lives of innocent Black and Brown people. Hunger, homelessness, mass unemployment and racist mass [...]
Achievements of Korean socialism
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Caleb T. Maupin December 20, 2012 » Add the first comment.
The recent launch of a satellite into orbit is only the latest of many achievements of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The northern half of the Korean peninsula is led by the Korean Workers Party, a revolutionary communist organization. The banks, factories and other commanding heights have been held in common and guided by [...]
As capitalists’ response fails, activists mobilize relief aid
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Caleb T. Maupin November 5, 2012 » Add the second comment.
New York — People’s organizations stepped up to carry out relief efforts for Hurricane Sandy survivors when it became clear that government-led efforts and corporate charities were not doing enough. As the storm headed toward New York and New Jersey, vital information about safety and evacuation was being distributed on the Occupy Wall Street website [...]
Paul Ryan’s lies: The truth about ‘central planning’
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Caleb T. Maupin October 15, 2012 » Add the first comment.
A revolutionary youth’s perspective During his speech at the Republican National Convention, Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan at one point referred to the Obama administration as “central planners.” In doing so, he insinuated that President Obama was implementing economic policies similar to those of the Soviet Union, People’s Korea, Cuba and other countries engaged in [...]
On Occupy Wall Street anniversary: ‘The anti-capitalists are here!’
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Caleb T. Maupin September 27, 2012 » Add the second comment.
Following are excerpts from a talk given by Caleb T. Maupin, a Workers World Party youth organizer and WW writer, at a Sept. 21 WWP forum in New York City on the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. I looked up the actual law that some of the Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested on Sept. [...]
