Bernie Sanders: "Barack Obama is a brilliant guy, an extraordinary candidate, and a charasmatic leader"

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 20:12:50 +0000

I sit here deeply concerned that I suspect we’re leading our nation on an integration trip that has us integrating into a burning house. Most of the politicians I know of make promises only to walk into places of power and then deny us.
Harry Belafonte

MLK did not die so that Barack Obama could

Make the banks bigger

Expand from 2 wars to 7

Get rid of Habious Corpus

Expand the surveliance state

It was chagne on the outside because it was a black guy, but it was contiuity on the inside

Nivedita Majumdar: The Socialist Case for Gun Control

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:46:17 +0000

Nivedita Majumdar “The Health of Nations" Jacobin

As socialists we appreciate the violence of capitalism in denying basic necessities like decent housing and schooling to large sections of the population. But do we wait for the overthrow of capitalism and reject interim solutions to remedy those ills?

Even when leftists lend qualified support to gun control, they limit it only to the banning of assault type weaponry . Once again, they’re focused only on mass shootings where shooters tend to use such weaponry. But it’s handguns that are responsible for the overwhelming majority of homicides.

Race on Dirk Kelly

Bernie Sanders: "Barack Obama is a brilliant guy, an extraordinary candidate, and a charasmatic leader"

Nivedita Majumdar: The Socialist Case for Gun Control