Our political project, full equality and freedom for all in every sphere of life, is impossible to achieve in the social and political framework that we know. ...

The struggle to be free is one that is commendable and deserves our sympathy. At this time when the state is committing brutal violence against a people, solidarity and action is needed and in fact, around the world well-wishers have expressed their outrage at the situation in Tibet. Protest movements have been calling for "an end to cultural imperalism", "freedom", even for "crushing the oppressor" and are united in such slogans and demands. Yet what if Tibet were to gain independence from China? ...

It is testament to how much Latin America has changed politically over the past several years that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez not only criticizes U.S. military policy in the region but now actively seeks to form a new defense force designed to counteract the colossus of the north. Recently, Chávez invited Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to join him on his weekly TV show, Aló, Presidente!

Thanks to the bivouac and Uptake. Iraq war veterans challenge war-mongerer McCain:

Associated Press captured one of the first major protests:

Since
the collapse of Stalinism in Eastern Europe
the whole region has become a field of investment for western capital. Austria has
invested big time in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Now however all the
contradictions are mounting up and from a source of stability the region could
become a source of instability. Here we provide a brief comment on the economic situation of the CEE region.

Considerations on a Revolutionary Situation in the U.S.: Likely Triggering Factors, Potential Political Contours
by M. Upshaw
Let’s explore and debate the conceptual framework and scenarios of this little-known article. It suggests a number of hypothetical scenarios that could trigger deep political and social crisis in the U.S. — and that could open the way toward a [...]

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 [...]

Translated from Sergio de Castro Sanchez's article, Journal of the CGT Rojo y Negro (Spain) Between June and November of 2006, the Mexican state
of Oaxaca lived through a popular revolt that both astonished and shocked the world. While the mass media took
its characteristic perspective on the conflict, the people of
Oaxaca rejected Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO), of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and took the capital city demanding his ouster as the starting point for the
creation of a new political and economic order to wipe out

Media, culture and news of this society have never been so tightly controlled and commodified (and effectively censored) . Ah but then, on another level, there emerges channels of information and exchange that are very hard to control.
whaddawegonnadoaboudit?
Some remain fixated on getting onto TV — on “that plane of the superstructure” — while ignoring the [...]

By Mike Ely
I’d like to share some experiences around the collision between revolutionary communist work and fundamentalist religion in the coalfields during the high-tide of wildcat strikes there in the 1970s. Some earlier discussion of communist work in the mines is in other posts on this site.
I was working in a large mostly Black mine [...]