STEVEN ARGUE—To the extent AMLO attempts to carry out these and related promises and comes under further U.S. imperialist attack, it will become necessary to defend AMLO from inevitable U.S. imperialist regime change operations.
July 2018
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KSHAMA SAWANT—Working people need to draw our own line in the sand. But to do so, we will need to build a stronger movement. We must use the coming months to prepare the launch of a broad progressive alliance to fight for affordable housing and replace the establishment politicians in Seattle City Hall. We need a new mass party in the US that will fight unambiguously for working people and the oppressed, and which accepts no corporate money.
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An interview with Mexican documentarian Juan Francisco Urrusti, director of In Exile: A Family Film
11 minutes readKEVIN MITCHELL—”Much later in life, I found out about these backgrounds and views. As a child, I didn’t know that this one was a Communist and this other one was an anarchist, this one was a syndicalist, this other one a Catalan nationalist. So, yes, in a way, the film is shallow. It doesn’t go into some of the reasons why the Spanish Republic lost the war, but, on the other hand, it gives some of the background. As you said in your review, it doesn’t go deeply into the history or give an analysis of the political situation…”
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Brief Illusion: Ocasio-Cortez on “Meet the Press” serves double-talk, evasion and a disavowal of socialism
9 minutes readBARRY GREY—Double-talk and evasion are the tools of bourgeois politicians whose careers depend on deceiving working people into voting for their class enemies. They are not the methods of socialists. Socialists tell the truth and seek to reveal the real relations of capitalism and the real, revolutionary, implications of the struggles into which workers are driven.
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ANDREAS SCHLUTER—If the concerned EU members will in the end fall on their knees, all good and fine! If not and out of the resistance an “Old-World“ front may be forming with possible economic consequences also for the US, possibly also strengthening the efforts to break_the_Dollar-hegemony, then the moment might have come to finally get rid of Trump in favor of Pence waiting to become the next Neocon puppet!