This article was first published on June 15, 2009 in response to an article published a week earlier in the now-defunct International Socialist Organization's newspaper, Socialist Worker. In that article, Dennis Kosuth treats the epic Chinese Revolution with extreme...
In January 2002, President George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind. NCLB requires states to develop assessments (standardized testing) to measure skills in order to receive federal funding. No Child Left Behind began the hysteria of “high stakes testing.” The...
This statement is being distributed in the streets of Ferguson and St. Louis. All the politicians are calling for calm and peace. Fighting back in the streets, they say, accomplishes nothing. They say the people have to work within the system to bring about change....
The capitalists’ ideological weapon against the working class In 2012, the dictionary site Merriam-Webster announced that the words most looked up that year were “socialism” and “capitalism.” This was undoubtedly because the Republican Party had spent so much time...
The need for a revolutionary party Without mass struggle, there is no hope for real change. But activism and struggle alone are not enough to achieve socialism. What is also essential is a revolutionary communist party. This has been proven by history on many...
The results of a BBC poll, released Nov. 9 in the midst of the Berlin Wall media circus, found that only 11 percent of people globally believe free market capitalism "works well." The poll helps get to the truth behind the pageantry and propaganda put forward by the...
1839-42: First Opium War. British imported tea from China, and in return exported opium from India into China. In 1839, the Chinese government destroys 20,000 chests of British opium and prohibits its use. Britain retaliates militarily. 1842: Treaty of...