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Jesse Helms, North Carolina senator and national king-maker, is dead. Finally.

He was a raw reactionary in every way possible. Calling him a “conservative” (as the mainstream media does) is like calling Jeffrey Dahmer a “troubled young man.”
And he was a true powerhouse of American politics — influencing policy and personnel at key levels of the [...]

Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal examines the Obama candidacy from a Black nationalist perspective. (the “ours” in his title refers to African American people. Posting a point of view does not imply Kasama’s endorsement of those views. (Thanks to Iris for suggesting this post.)

by Mumia Abu-Jamal
With the attainment of the required delegates to claim the [...]

There has been an ongoing (and hopefully deepening) debate among communists over how to understand religious faith, how to understand its political role, how to discuss faith with religious believers, and how to promote a secular materialist understanding of the universe. This is (by its nature) a debate among people who assert that there [...]

There has been an ongoing (and hopefully deepening) debate among communists over how to understand religious faith, how to understand its political role, how to discuss faith with religious believers, and how to promote a secular materialist understanding of the universe.
This second part contains two responses from followers of Bob Avakian (the leader of the [...]

In a separate thread, we have publish Michael Eric Dyson’s dissection of Barack Obama father’s day speech. Here is the text of that speech, originally posted on the Obama blog.
As prepared for delivery, Apostolic Church of God, Sunday, June 15th, 2009, Chicago, IL
Good morning. It’s good to be home on this Father’s Day with my [...]

After years of Bush’s open-ended war
on working people at home and abroad, many on the “left” in the
United States and beyond are desperate for an alternative. For many,
that alternative is Barack Obama. Obama, has been careful to portray
himself as a “sensible progressive”. However, far from being a
“progressive” alternative, Obama is at his core a typical
representative of the bosses’ political parties.

Though some claim that Barack Obama’s candidacy represents a post-racial era, this caricature proves that old-fashioned American racism is alive and well.
This story originally appeared on yahoo.com.
Forum sells ‘Obama Waffles’ with racial stereotype

By JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WriterSat Sep 13, 4:14 PM ET
Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix [...]

This commentary was developed by Iris.

The McCain’s campaign has been actively unleashing the lynch mob currents in American politics. TV ads now portray Obama as hiding terrorist ties, and being somehow fishy and unknowable.
When this produces audiences screaming “terrorist” and “traitor,”  McCain himself tries to pose as respectful.
Meanwhile Sarah Palin tries to hammer “questions” about Obama’s “ties” to Prof. [...]

by Mike Ely
Today July 14, was quite a day for Obama’s clarifications of his stand on war and empire. Two different articles appeared in the same issue of the New York Times devoted to Obama’s views — one on Iraq, the other on Iran.
We are posting some key quotes here, but will include links to [...]