US Civil Rights - Paul Robeson
Red Youth activist The 10,000 League ( talks about the real history of the Civil Rights Struggle, focusing on the contribution of Paul Robeson.
Paul lived my his maxim The heights of knowledge must be scaled by the freedom seeker, and was a great and fearless friend of the international proletariat.
He visited and Soviet Union, developed a deep and warm love for its system and peoples, and saw that Soviet Socialism was a new and higher form of civilisation. Finding a place and a system that fought against racism and where he could stand for the first time in my life as a full human being, he sent his son, Paul Robeson Junior, to study in the USSR.
In the great anti-fascist battles he took the side of socailsim and led progressive opinion in America and the world to follow the path of working class emancipation.
A father of the Civil Rights struggle, he campaigned against segregation, Jim Crow and the racist and anti-communist McCarthyite 'cold war' agenda in post WW2 America. He organised and performed for the Civil Rights Congress, to raise money to defend working class and particularly oppressed black people who were attacked by the KKK, police, judicial, and right wing social and political system of the USA.
After returning from the Paris Peace Congress in 1949, where he famously stated that working class and in particular Negro Americans would never fight against the USSR, a consistent campaign was set in motion to isolate and neutralise Paul's profound progressive influence on the US people.
His August 1949 concert at Peekskill, New York, was attacked by the KKK with the complicity of the police. Pete Seager describes the events in this video. In September 1949, a larger concert was organised in Peekskill, and detachments of workers were organised to defend the concert, which was an overwhelming success.
Paul Robeson's pro-Soviet and progressive stand remains much whitewashed by official right-wing US historians, but he remains one of the truly great sons of America; a lawyer, an artist, a sportsman, father of the civil rights struggle, a profoundly intelligent, thinking and feeling human being. Confronted by major questions he did not shy from them, but studied and took a firm stand against racism, injustice and exploitation, against fascist Germany and against the fascist leadership of US imperialism.
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Robeson and Stalin:
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Above all, Paul Robeson was a great American Communist, and it is precisely this that made him a great patriot - a real lover and spokesman for American workers - and a great internationalist.
For his courageous stand he was brought before the house unamerican activities committee witch-hunt, where he stated defiantly that:
I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America. My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington’s troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.
I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. And they are not. They are not in Mississippi. And they are not in Montgomery, Alabama. And they are not in Washington. They are nowhere, and that is why I am here today.
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. And that is why I am here today. . . .
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Civil rights and Communists:
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To you my beloved comrade(Robeson on Stalin's death):
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League for the Revolutionary Party
An interview with a member of the League for the Revolutionary Party conducted on April 18, 2009 at the Left Forum in New York City. Their website:
The League for the Revolutionary Party is a Trotskyist organisation in the United States.
The group was founded by a faction of the now defunct Revolutionary Socialist League in 1973. The RSL had in turn split from the International Socialists in 1971.
The LRP took from the RSL a strong stress on the need for a Leninist party and coupled this with an emphasis on the general strike tactic. They also developed their own version of what is called state capitalist theory to explain the class nature of the USSR and similar states. In later years they abandoned use of the term state capitalist in favor of the term statified capitalism, arguing the difference between Stalinist and traditional capitalist countries is in the form that the ruling class holds its property, and that the proletariat is still exploited and surplus value created in the same way. The LRP views the state in Stalinist countries as a weaker form of the capitalist state, less capable of exploiting the workers but still ruling in the interest of the bureaucracy. This form of state is seen as a compromise by the ruling class, sacrificing a portion of profits to pacify the workers and prevent proletarian revolutions. As such, the LRP viewed the collapse of the Soviet Union as a defeat for the workers not because the workers lost control of the state, as many Trotskyists believe, but because of the increased rate of exploitation and destruction of social welfare programs that accompanied the collapse.
The group is based in New York with a branch in Chicago. It also organizes a group of international co-thinkers called the Communist Organisation for a Fourth International. They publish a journal called Proletarian Revolution, formerly Socialist Voice, to which the late Sy Landy and Walter Daum have been notable contributors.
Bob Avakian - 1969, 1979, 2003
Bob Avakian is Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. A veteran of the Free Speech Movement and the revolutionary upsurges of the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked closely with the Black Panther Party. By the mid-1970s, he emerged as the foremost Maoist revolutionary in the United States. He has guided the RCP since its formation in 1975 and is a major leader of the international communist movement. Over the last 25 years, Avakian has produced a highly significant body of work, and he approaches Marxism as a living, developing science that must be constantly interrogating itself.
Avakian has penned the most comprehensive account of Mao's theoretical contributions to Marxism. He has been undertaking an ongoing examination of the experience of proletarian revolution in the 20th century -- its great achievements, in particular the profound lessons of the Cultural Revolution in China, as well as its setbacks, shortcomings, and mistakes. He has been addressing issues of revolutionary strategy, in the U.S. and for the international movement. He has analyzed why revolution is not only necessary but possible within the U.S. itself.
Through these and other critical investigations, Avakian has been bringing forward a vision of socialism and communism that breaks vital new ground for Marxism and the communist project. He has been deepening and enlarging the understanding of the tasks and contradictions bound up with the exercise of revolutionary authority and how the masses can be unleashed to rule and transform society. In recent writings, he has been speaking to the indispensable role of dissent in socialist society -- how it contributes to deeper knowledge of socialist society, the critical spirit that must permeate it, and the continuing struggle to transform socialist society towards communism. He has been drawing attention to the importance of the intellectual and cultural spheres under socialism and to the revolutionary process, and historic problems, in understanding and approach of the international communist movement. In works such as Conquer the World -- The International Proletariat Must and Will and Getting Over the Two Great Humps: Further Thoughts on Conquering the World, he has been conceptualizing the international dimensions of communist revolution in ways that have far-reaching implications for the world struggle.
Avakian's writings are marked by great breadth -- from discussions about religion and atheism and morality, to the limits of classical democracy, to basketball. It is often alleged that a vanguard party is incompatible with a searching, critical and creative intellectual enterprise. Avakian gives the lie to this claim.
From his life experience and revolutionary perspective comes a profound sense of the struggles and sentiments among the masses of people; and he keeps his finger on the pulse of the movements of opposition in society and more broadly. This is a revolutionary leader who has said about leadership: if you don't have a poetic spirit -- or at least a poetic side -- it is very dangerous for you to lead a Marxist movement or be the leader of a socialist state.
Bob Avakian is the visionary leader of a Maoist vanguard party, the Revolutionary Communist Party, which has its sights on the revolutionary seizure of power and the radical transformation of society in the colossus that is late imperial America -- all as part of a worldwide process of revolutionary struggle whose final aim is communism, a world without exploitative and oppressive relations and the corresponding political structures, institutions, and ideas and culture.
Left Forum 2017: Worker/Owner Coops: Doing Better Than Capitalism - Part 1 of 3
More than 60 Worker/Owner businesses across New York City and hundreds across the United States; Are they Utopian Proletarian Experiments or the building blocks for a new Economy that can do better than Capitalism. This workshop, featuring Economist Richard Wolff, Worker/Owner Cooperative Leaders and Representatives from the Community that has grown to incubate and support them, will explore these critical questions for a growing movement towards real change in the United States.
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Alan Schulman - Veteran Public School's Educator and Activist; Program Coordinator, Democracy At Work New York
Speakers:
Richard D. Wolff - Democracy At Work
Pablo Benson-Silva - Director of Membership and Communications at the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYCNOWC).
Rebecca Lurie - CUNY, Murphy Institute for Labor and Urban studies
Sean Abbot Klafter - Social Studies Teacher, NYC Department of Education
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A Eulogy for America
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I'm 49 years old and a lifelong patriot. I remember as a child learning about the cold war, and being taught that we in the west had the moral high ground because the Soviets detained people without benefit of trial or charge in secret prisons called gulags. I remember hearing about how Soviet citizens were sometimes disappeared. I remember being told about our Constitution and it's protections including the sixth amendment right to a speedy and public trial. I remember how police dramas always showed prisoners (no matter how heinous) being read their rights under the Miranda decision.
I remember coming to respect the founders for having the foresight to include such a basic right and I understood how perfectly it encapsulated the notion of innocent until proven guilty which was the hallmark of a civilized society. Tyrants - I understood - imprisoned people on speculation. Democracies erred on the side of caution, as a person's freedom was the most sacred thing a republic could defend.
Then came the Bush years, and 9/11, and rendition, and Guantanamo, and the war on terror. I mourned for the Constitution and feared for the future. Then came Obama and hope and change.
Hope? Change? Congress has just passed the 2012 Defense Authorization Act, an annual budgeting bill which this time holds a surprise. Basically it declares the Sixth Amendment no longer valid in the US. It states that the president now has the legal right to continue doing what Bush did illegally for years. It gives the president the privilege of being unfettered by jurisprudence purely on his say so. It throws out habeus corpus and the right to trial and the right to a defense, and by ignoring the fourth and sixth amendments (not to mention the seventh, eighth and ninth) it (by virtue of ignoring it) fundamentally throws out Article five of the Constitution.
Allow me to be blunt. We no longer have a Constitution the minute the president signs this bill into law.
We already have martial law in the streets of Boston, LA, New York and several other major US cities. We already have a police state in our airports where deputized thugs have been given carte blanche to detain you without cause. We already have a subjugated proletariat and a protected class of nobles. But now, as of the passage of this trash legislation, we no longer have a Constitution that's worth the vellum it's printed on.
This was our government who did this, Democrats and Republicans both. While we were busy protecting our guns on the right and defending our voice on the left, they sneaked in and stripped away everything else from the middle.
The United States of America: 1776, to 2011. RIP and Merry Christmas.
SKULL AND BONES: Charlotte Iserbyt talks New World Order
American freelance writer and former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the United States Department of Education in the Reagan Administration, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt talks about the SECRET SOCIETY of SKULL AND BONES.
Charlotte attended the Dana Hall Preparatory School and studied business at the Katharine Gibbs College in New York City. Iserbyt's father and grandfather were graduates of Yale University and members of The Order (322), aka: Skull and Bones.
Are you having an issue with your child's education? If so, Iserbyt may have some insight. Perhaps you're loathing the thought of your child attending a local institution provided by public education?
In 1982 Iserbyt was openly opposed to Project BEST: Better Education Skills through Technology. The project was brought about by Canadian, Dr. John I. Goodlad of the University of Washington. Parents do not own their children, Goodlad is quoted as saying... they have no 'natural right' to control their (child's) education. (Developing Democratic Character in the Young, pp. 164)
Also part of that project, the book, Schooling for a Global Age, was one that Charlotte was most critical of. Iserbty's critique was that the study had less to do with fostering learning and mainly to do with the psychological manipulation of students - most possibly against the teachings of that of their parents.
Charlotte's book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, reveals certain practices integrated into the American Public Education System that eliminate a parent's home influence on the child and instead, Iserbyt argues, mold the child's thinking patterns into that of a member of the proletariat and into that of a socialist-collectivist world. This is Iserbyt's argument. She asserts that these principles originate from plans formulated by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education and the Rockefeller General Education Board. Her book details the psychological methods used to implement and put into effect such changes.
The Carnegie Corporation's: Conclusions and Recommendations, is documented as proposing to: use the schools to change U.S. capitalist economic system to a lifelong communist planned economy. Iserbyt today argues that a Reagan/Gorbachev education agreement is aimed at (brainwashing) Americans to reject traditional American values in favor of humanistic/globalist agenda (UN agenda 30).
Reagan relieved her as Senior Policy Advisor due to her stance on Project BEST.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a 2003 film focusing on events in Venezuela leading up to and during the April 2002 coup d'état attempt, which saw President Hugo Chávez removed from office for two days.
While the makers of this film are scrupulous in avoiding attributing the origins of the coup against the popular and progressive, democratically elected, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his constitutional government, this contemporary film footage makes it abundantly clear that the imperialist government and state agencies of the United States of America are behind this illegal and anti-democratic coup.
It is particularly important and timely to relive and remember this anti Chávez coup, at the present moment in early 2019, as the US is again attempting to remove the democratically elected president, and close comrade of Chavez, Nicholas Maduro.
There is no crime that capital will not commit to secure a high profit margin, and Venezuelan proven oil reserves are the largest on Earth. Larger even than Saidi Arabia's, and they are in Uncle Sam's back Yard.
The arrogant Monroe doctrine, that the American hemisphere 'belongs' to the US imperialists is the living creed of the billionaire parasites who grow fat by ensuring the poverty of the masses of the Latin American people.
They are aided and abetted by local elites throughout Latin America and accross the world. This documentary footage is a primary source that reveals the truth of their shady and conspiratorial dealings to cheat humanity of our rights - a share of the wealth that our labour generates, and the beautiful and harmonious society it could bring to the benefit of all.
The Venezuelan people deliver a mighty popular lesson that is recorded live in this film: that the people when organised and united hold real power, but require courageous and revolutionary leadership. This film is a tribute to the Venezuelan masses, and to Hugo Chávez! It is compelling viewing. Watch it and share. Be inspired to fight for a better world.
The people, united, will never be defeated!
With particular emphasis on the role played by Venezuela's private media, the film examines several key incidents: the protest march and subsequent violence that provided the impetus for Chávez's ousting; the opposition's formation of an interim government headed by business leader Pedro Carmona; and the Carmona administration's collapse, which paved the way for Chávez's return.
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John Steele Gordon | Socialism in American History
The idea of socialism is ancient. Organized socialist movements took form in Europe in the nineteenth century, and socialism emerged as a dominant political ideology in many places around the world by the twentieth century. This second CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year, co-sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series, will consider socialism, its practice over time, and its resurgence today.
John Steele Gordon was educated at Millbrook School and Vanderbilt University. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Forbes, National Review, Commentary, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is a contributing editor at American Heritage, where he wrote the “Business of America” column for many years, and currently writes “The Long View” column for Barron’s. He is the author of several books, including Hamilton’s Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt, The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, The Business of America: Tales from the Marketplace—American Enterprise from the Settling of New England to the Breakup of AT&T, and An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power.
TradcatKnight: Russia Ruled by Crypto-Jews
TradcatKnight: Russia Ruled by Crypto-Jews
Daryl Bradford Smith with Iskander Hashim, September 6, 2008.
On Crypto-Judaism, Ashkenazic Jews vs Sephardic Jews, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Mainstream Media, Communism, Boris Yeltsin, KGB, Lubavitcher Rabbi Berel Lazar, Georgia, Israel, United States, John Kerry, General Wesley Clark, Yury Luzhkov, Nicolas Sarkozy, Madeleine Albright, Joseph Stalin, Russian Revolution of 1917, Adolf Hitler, Roman Abramovich, Russian Orthodox Christianity, and more.
The Russian Revolution
In his Jews in Russia, Mr. Victor E. Maraden, correspondent of the Morning Post, published the names of all the 545 Soviet Commissars. Of them 447 are Jews, 34 Letts, 30 Russians, etc. But even many of these Letts and Russians are in reality Jews or married to Jewesses.
Maj. Gen. Count Cherep-Spiridovich, The Secret World Government or “The Hidden Hand,” 1926
Bolshevism is militant Judaism; the extermination of the White races and the substitution of Asiatic parasites for the Aryans. It is the work of Jewish assassins for the purpose of causing a new domination of the World by a criminal sect.
Sir Patrick Hamilton
The communists are Jews, and Russia is being entirely administered by them. They are in every government office, bureau and newspaper. The are driving out the Russians and are responsible for the anti-Semitic feeling which is increasing.
Mrs. Clare Sheridan, friend of Bronstein-Trotsky, in the New York World, 1923
I am prepared to prove that Bolshevism (which is merely a modern word for Judaism), the vicious manipulation of foreign exchanges, and the general “world unrest” prevailing today, may be summed up in two words, namely, ‘Jew Finance.’
H.H. Beamish, President of English patriotic society, author of the Jew’s Who’s Who.
Bolshevism, this symbol of chaos and of the spirit of destruction, is above all an anti-Christian and anti-social conception. This present destructive tendency is clearly advantageous for only one national and religious entity: Judaism. The fact that Jews are the most active element in present-day revolutions as well as in revolutionary socialism, that they draw to themselves the power forced from the peoples of other nations by revolution, is a fact by itself, independent of the question of knowing if that comes from organized world-wide Judaism, from Jewish Free Masonry or by an elementary evolution brought about by Jewish national solidarity and the accumulation of capital in the hands of Jewish bankers.
The contest is becoming more definite. The domination of revolutionary Judaism in Russia and the open support given to this Jewish Bolshevism by Judaism the world over finally clear up the situation, show the cards and put the question of the battle of Christianity against Judaism, of the National State against the International, that is to say, in reality, against Jewish world power.
M. Lokotj, former Russian revolutionary
One can say without exaggeration that the great Russian social revolution has been made by the hand of the Jews. Would the somber, oppressed masses of Russian workmen and peasants have been capable by themselves of throwing off the yoke of the bourgeoisie. No, it was especially the Jews who have led the Russian proletariat to the Dawn of the International and who have not only guided but still guide today the cause of the Soviets which they have preserved in their hands.
We can sleep in peace so long as the commander-in-chief of the Red Army is Comrade Trotsky (real name: Bronstein). It is true that there are no Jews in the Red Army serving as private soldiers, but the committees and Soviet organization are Jewish. Jews bravely lead to victory the masses of the Russian proletariat. It is not without reason that in the elections for all the Soviet institutions Jews are in a victorious and crushing majority….
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The Jewish symbol which for centuries has struggled against capitalism (Christian) has become that also of the Russian proletariat. One may see it in the adoption of the red five-pointed star which has been for long, as one knows, the symbol of Zionism and Judaism. Behind this emblem marches victory, the death of parasites and of the bourgeoisie.
M. Cohen, in The Communist, 1919
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO - FULL AudioBook - by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
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The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European Powers were universally afraid of the nascent movement, and were condemning as communist, people or activities that did not actually conform to what the Communists believed. This Manifesto, then, became a manual for their beliefs.
In it we find Marx and Engel's rehearsal of the idea that Capital has stolen away the work of the artisan and peasant by building up factories to produce goods cheaply. The efficiency of Capital depends, then, on the wage laborers who staff the factories and how little they will accept in order to have work. This concentrates power and money in a Bourgeois class that profits from the disunity of workers (Proletarians), who only receive a subsistence wage.
If workers unite in a class struggle against the bourgeois, using riot and strikes as weapons, they will eventually overthrow the bourgeois and replace them as a ruling class. Communists further believe in and lay out a system of reforms to transform into a classless, stateless society, thus distinguishing themselves from various flavors of Socialism, which would be content to have workers remain the ruling class after the revolution.
The Manifesto caused a huge amount of discussion for its support for a forcible overthrow of the existing politics and society. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)
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Dr. Charlotte Iserbyt: Mind Control in Public Schools
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt is an American freelance writer and former Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Department of Education. She was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930, and attended the exclusive Dana Hall Preparatory School and Katharine Gibbs College in New York City, where she studied business. Iserbyt's father and grandfather were Yale University graduates and members of the Skull and Bones Society.
Iserbyt served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
Iserbyt later came across a federally-funded grant entitled Better Education Skills through Technology (Project BEST), part of which was headed What we (U.S. Dept. of Education) can control and manipulate at the local level. After leaking this document to Human Events, she was removed from her post in the Department of Education. She later served as a staff employee of the U.S. Department of State (South Africa, Belgium, South Korea).
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
The book alleges that changes gradually brought into the American public education system work to eliminate the influences of a child's parents, and mold the child into a member of the proletariat in preparation for a socialist-collectivist world of the future. She considers that these changes originated from plans formulated primarily by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education and Rockefeller General Education Board, and details the psychological methods used to implement and effect the changes.
State Of Mind
State Of Mind delves into the abyss to expose the true agendas at work. This film reveals the secret manipulations at work and provides shocking and suppressed historical and current examples. From the ancient roots of the control of human behavior to its maturity in the mind control experiments of intelligence agencies and other organs of manipulation, State Of Mind reveals a plan for the future that drives home the dreadful price of our ignorance.
State of Mind: The Psychology of Control (2013)
aka: Mind Control in Public Schools with Charlotte Iserbyt
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A Narrative History of Black Power in America: Identity, Culture, Equality, Integration (2007)
Black Power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African/Black descent.[1] It is used by African Americans in the United States.[2] It was prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, emphasizing racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests[3] and advance black values.
Black Power expresses a range of political goals, from defense against racial oppression, to the establishment of social institutions and a self-sufficient economy. The earliest known usage of the term is found in a 1954 book by Richard Wright entitled Black Power. Although he did not coin the phrase, New York politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. used the term on May 29, 1966 during a baccalaureate address at Howard University: To demand these God-given rights is to seek black power.
Black Power adherents believed in Black autonomy, with a variety of tendencies such as black nationalism, and black separatism. Such positions caused friction with leaders of the mainstream Civil Rights Movement, and thus the two movements have sometimes been viewed as inherently antagonistic. However, many groups and individuals - including Rosa Parks,[8] Robert F. Williams, Maya Angelou, Gloria Richardson, and Fay Bellamy Powell - participated in both civil rights and black power activism. A growing number of scholars conceive of the civil rights and black power movements as one interconnected Black Freedom Movement.[9][10][11]
Not all Black Power advocates were in favor of black separatism. While Stokely Carmichael and SNCC were in favor of separatism for a time in the late 1960s, organizations such as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense were not. Though the Panthers considered themselves to be at war with the prevailing white supremacist power structure, they were not at war with all whites, but rather those (mostly white) individuals empowered by the injustices of the structure and responsible for its reproduction.
Bobby Seale, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was outspoken about this. His stand was that the oppression of black people was more of a result of economic exploitation than anything innately racist. In his book Seize the Time, he states that In our view it is a class struggle between the massive proletarian working class and the small, minority ruling class. Working-class people of all colors must unite against the exploitative, oppressive ruling class. So let me emphasize again—we believe our fight is a class struggle and not a race struggle.[12]
Internationalist offshoots of black power include African Internationalism, pan-Africanism, black nationalism, and black supremacy.
The term Black Power was used in a different sense in the 1850s by Black leader Frederick Douglass as an alternative name for the Slave Power—that is the disproportionate political power at the national level held by slave owners in the South.[13] Douglass predicted: The days of Black Power are numbered. Its course, indeed is onward. But with the swiftness of an arrow, it rushes to the tomb. While crushing its millions, it is also crushing itself. The sword of Retribution, suspended by a single hair, hangs over it. That sword must fall. Liberty must triumph.[14]
In apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela's African National Congress used the call-and-response chant Amandla! (Power!), Ngawethu! (The power is ours!) from the late 1950s onward.[15]
The modern American concept emerged from the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Beginning in 1959, Robert F. Willams, president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, openly questioned the ideology of nonviolence and its domination of the movement's strategy. Williams was supported by prominent leaders such as Ella Baker and James Forman, and opposed by others, such as Roy Wilkins (the national NAACP chairman) and Martin Luther King.[16] In 1961, Maya Angelou, Leroi Jones, and Mae Mallory led a riotous (and widely-covered) demonstration at the United Nations to protest the assassination of Patrice Lumumba.[17][18] Malcolm X, national representative of the Nation of Islam, also launched an extended critique of nonviolence and integrationism at this time. After seeing the increasing militancy of blacks in the wake of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and wearying of the domination of Elijah Muhammed over the Nation of Islam, Malcolm left that organization and engaged with the mainstream of the Civil Rights Movement. Malcolm was now open to voluntary integration as a long-term goal, but still supported armed self-defense, self-reliance, and black nationalism; he became a simultaneous spokesman for the militant wing of the Civil Rights Movement and the non-separatist wing of the Black Power movement.
Noam Chomsky Opposes the Vietnam War and Accuses the US of Hypocrisy in WW2
Noam Chomsky was an outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as an act of American imperialism, in 1967 Chomsky attracted widespread public attention for his anti-war essay The Responsibility of Intellectuals. Associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard Nixon's Enemies List. While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the Linguistics Wars. In collaboration with Edward S. Herman, Chomsky later co-wrote an analysis articulating the propaganda model of media criticism, and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. However, his defense of unconditional freedom of speech – including for Holocaust deniers – generated significant controversy in the Faurisson affair of the early 1980s. Following his retirement from active teaching, he has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the War on Terror and supporting the Occupy movement.
One of the most cited scholars in history, Chomsky has influenced a broad array of academic fields. He is widely recognized as a paradigm shifter who helped spark a major revolution in the human sciences, contributing to the development of a new cognitivistic framework for the study of language and the mind. In addition to his continued scholarly research, he remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, neoliberalism and contemporary state capitalism, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and mainstream news media. His ideas have proved highly significant within the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements, but have also drawn criticism, with some accusing Chomsky of anti-Americanism.
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Strategizing the Resistance
Immanuel Ness is the author of several books on workers' organizing and resistance. He is a trade union organizer and labour activist and co-founded with Keith Brooks the New York Unemployed Committee (1990--1993), which successfully organized jobless workers at New York State unemployment centers.
Hunted by the KGB - Whittaker Chambers: Biography, Spy Case (1997)
Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961), born Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker Chambers, was an American writer and editor. After he was a Communist Party USA member and Soviet spy, he renounced communism, became an outspoken opponent, and testified at Alger Hiss's perjury and espionage trial. He described both events in his book Witness, published in 1952.
In 1924, Chambers read Vladimir Lenin's Soviets at Work and was deeply affected by it. He now saw the dysfunctional nature of his family, he would write, as in miniature the whole crisis of the middle class; a malaise from which Communism promised liberation. Chambers's biographer Sam Tanenhaus wrote that Lenin's authoritarianism was precisely what attracts Chambers... He had at last found his church; that is, he became a Marxist. In 1925, Chambers joined the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) (then known as the Workers Party of America). Chambers wrote and edited for Communist publications, including The Daily Worker newspaper and The New Masses magazine. Chambers combined his literary talents with his devotion to Communism, writing four short stories in 1931 about proletarian hardship and revolt, including Can You Make Out Their Voices?, considered by critics as one of the best fiction from the American Communist movement.[13] Hallie Flanagan co-adapted and produced it as a play entitled Can You Hear Their Voices? (see Writings by Chambers, below), staged across America and in many other countries. Chambers also worked as a translator during this period; among his works was the English version of Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods.[14]
Harold Ware
Chambers was recruited to join the Communist underground and began his career as a spy, working for a GRU apparatus headed by Alexander Ulanovsky (aka Ulrich). Later, his main controller in the underground was Josef Peters (whom CPUSA General Secretary Earl Browder later replaced with Rudy Baker). Chambers claimed Peters introduced him to Harold Ware (although he later denied he had ever been introduced to Ware), and that he was head of a Communist underground cell in Washington that reportedly included:[15]
Henry Collins, employed at the National Recovery Administration and later the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA).
Lee Pressman, assistant general counsel of the AAA.
Alger Hiss, attorney for the AAA and the Nye Committee; he moved to the Department of State in 1936, where he became an increasingly prominent figure.
John Abt, chief of Litigation for the AAA from 1933 to 1935, assistant general counsel of the Works Progress Administration in 1935, chief counsel on Senator Robert La Follette, Jr.'s LaFollette Committee from 1936 to 1937 and special assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1937 and 1938.
Charles Kramer, employed at the Department of Labor National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Nathan Witt, employed at the AAA; later moved to the NLRB.
George Silverman, employed at the Railroad Retirement Board; later worked with the Federal Coordinator of Transport, the United States Tariff Commission and the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration.
Marion Bachrach, sister of John Abt; office manager to Representative John Bernard of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party.
John Herrmann, author; assistant to Harold Ware; employed at the AAA; courier and document photographer for the Ware group; introduced Chambers to Hiss.
Nathaniel Weyl, author; would later defect from Communism himself and give evidence against party members.
Donald Hiss, brother to Alger Hiss; employed at the Department of State.
Victor Perlo, chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board, later joined the Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce and the Division of Monetary Research at the Department of Treasury.
Apart from Marion Bachrach, these people were all members of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration. Chambers worked in Washington as an organizer among Communists in the city and as a courier between New York and Washington for stolen documents which were delivered to Boris Bykov, the GRU station chief.[citation needed]
Other covert sources
Using the codename Karl or Carl, Chambers served during the mid-1930s as a courier between various covert sources and Soviet intelligence. In addition to the Ware group mentioned above, other sources that Chambers dealt with allegedly included:[16]
Noel Field, employed at the Department of State.
Edna Nahshon “From Dybbuk to Ghetto: Major Plays from the Jewish Dramatic Canon” (Lecture 1)
The course will expose students to Jewish dramatic literature. The plays selected come from pre-revolutionary Russia, the United States, and Israel, and were originally written in Yiddish, English, and Hebrew. They represent different styles and genres, including folkloristic mysticism, family melodrama, and thesis plays, and engage with themes that are relevant to this day: mystic yearnings, inter-generational tensions, moral quandaries, sexual mores, trauma and memory. They offer a vista of traditional Jewish life in the late 19th century, engage with the Jewish mass immigration to America and the many dilemmas triggered by it, and finally, confront the horrible ethical ambiguities presented by the Holocaust.
Edna Nahshon is Professor of Jewish Theater and Drama at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. Dr. Nahshon’s specialty is the intersection of Jewishness, theater, and performance, a topic on which she has written extensively. In 2016, she curated a major exhibition titled “New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway” at the Museum of the City of New York. Her most recent book is Wrestling with Shylock: Jewish Responses to the Merchant of Venice (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Other books include Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context (2012), Jewish Theatre: A Global View (2009), Jews and Shoes (2008), From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill’s Jewish Plays (2005), and Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925–1940 (1998).
The New Normal: Presidential Politics and the University, 2017
CCNY's Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts presents a teach-in on the current political moment in the United States, March 7, 2017. Hear CCNY faculty members Judith Stein, Charles Vörösmarty, Mikhal Dekel, and Hidetaka Hirota, joined by Cooper Union's Atina Grossman and NYU's Jessica Benjamin. CCNY Interim President Vincent Boudreau introduces the panel, and CCNY's Andras Kisery moderates.
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THE G-MAN INTERVIEWS: DR. JEFF PERRY
Dr. Jeffrey Perry Discusses White Supremacy in America and the New Expanded Edition of Theodore William Allen's Landmark Books
Welcome.
My guest is Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry, an independent, working-class scholar formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia University.
Dr, Perry's work focuses on the role of white supremacy as a retardant to progressive social change and on the centrality of struggle against white supremacy to progressive social change.
For over thirty-five years, he has been active in the working class movement as a rank-and-file worker and as a union shop steward, officer, editor, and retiree. He has also been involved in domestic and international social justice issues including affirmative action, union democracy, and anti-apartheid, anti-war, and anti-imperialist work.
Perry was influenced toward serious study of matters of race and class in America through personal experiences and readings and through the work of an independent scholar and close personal friend, the late Theodore William Allen (1919-2005), author of The Invention of the White Race, two volumes, Verso Books, 1994, 1997, and a new edition in 2012.
Allen was an anti-white-supremacist, proletarian intellectual and an autodidact whose research and writings, on the role of white supremacy in United States history and on the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy, disposed Perry to be receptive to the life and work of Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927), another independent, autodidactic, anti-white-supremacist, working class intellectual.
Dr. Perry preserved and inventoried the Hubert H. Harrison Papers and helped to place them at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Columbia University, and to develop the Hubert H. Harrison Papers, 1883-1927: Finding Aid.
He is the editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and the forthcoming Writings of Hubert Harrison. He is also the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918(Columbia University Press, 2008) and other writings on Harrison. He is currently working on volume two of the Hubert Harrison biography.
In addition, Perry is the literary executor for Theodore William Allen, whose papers he is preserving and inventorying. He edited and introduced Allen's Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race (1975; Center for the Study of Working Class Life, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2006) and authored numerous other pieces on Allen, which include a lengthy treatment in The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights From Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy (Cultural Logic, July 2010).
Most recently, he contributed new introductions, back matter, internal study guides, and expanded indexes for the new (Verso Books, November 2012) expanded edition of Allen's two-volume The Invention of the White Race: Vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control and Vol. 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America).
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The United States Goes Dry - Alcohol Prohibition I THE GREAT WAR
In January 1920, after one year of preparation, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution went into effect. From now on alcohol prohibition was the law.
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