Caleb Maupin: Martin Luther King Was A Socialist!

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Originally published Jan. 17, 2019
January 16, 2022

Caleb Maupin on Jun 2, 2010

Your history textbooks may have you convinced he was a blind patriot and arch conservative. They were wrong. Martin Luther King was a socialist, and the following clips show him talking extensively about the need to redistribute wealth and “economic power,” the right to a job, and the dignity of the working class.

William I. Robinson: The Global Police State, Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism

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Originally posted Oct. 27, 2020

goingundergroundRT on Oct 26, 2020

We speak to William Robinson, author of The Global Police State. He discusses how capitalism’s crises have fuelled the rise of the global police state, the drastic inequality and poverty that has become a theme of modern capitalism which necessitates the global police state, whether there is class warfare on the poor, the growing industry of militarism and oppression and much more!

Eugene Puryear: US in 2021: Crisis at Home, Chaos Warriors Abroad

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Peoples Dispatch on Jan 1, 2022

Eugene Puryear of BreakThrough News analyzes 2021 for the United States as Joe Biden took over after an uprising by Trump supporters. Hopes of a turnaround were soon to be belied as political gridlock and corporate agenda slowed down and even derailed chances of government spending for the poor.

The Anti-Social Socialist: Happy New Year! Who Was The Radical MLK?

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‘Tis the Season To Wage Boycotts! + Shopping as an Act of Resistance

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The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
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Originally published November 24, 2013
November 25, 2021

Boycott Season is now upon us. Let every citizen take careful aim. Your target is the corporate empire. Your weapon is your wallet.

Chris Hedges: In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California

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with Chris Hedges

RT America on Nov 18, 2021

On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the struggle against industrial agriculture with author Daniel J. O’Connell.

Chris Hedges: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison, Part 2

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with Chris Hedges

RT America on Oct 16, 2021

On the show, part two of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses the saga of trauma and transformation in an American prison as chronicled in journalist Chris Hedges’ new book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.

Chris Hedges: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison, Part 1

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with Chris Hedges

RT America on Oct 14, 2021

On the show, part one of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses the saga of trauma and transformation in an American prison as chronicled in journalist Chris Hedges’ new book Our Class.

Unity and Survival: Fighting Hunger on the Streets of Philadelphia + Hunger Stalks the United States, by Kei Pritsker and Eugene Puryear

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Updated: September 30, 2021

BreakThrough News on Sep 15, 2021

The Unity and Survival Program of the Philadelphia Liberation Center provided essential food support to a struggling population as the pandemic wreaked havoc. Their success demonstrates that the problem of hunger stalking the United States could be solved if there was sufficient political will to do so.

Chris Hedges: A Different Kind of War

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RT America on Aug 21, 2021

On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the plight of everyday people victimized by the hardships of life in Mexico and Central America with author and journalist, J. Malcolm Garcia.

The Intensification of Colonial Genocide Will Blow Back, by Rainer Shea

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by Rainer Shea
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Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist
April 27, 2021

Escalation has consequences. When a government pushes its people too far, a revolt is going to happen that the government may not be able to contain. We’ve seen this in the last year, when the latest series of murders by police following the coming of a new Great Depression resulted in the largest protest movement in U.S. history. And U.S. military experts understand that over these next several decades of ongoing living standards deterioration within the capitalist world, further unrest will come about should the government take its repressive efforts too far; a 2016 Pentagon training video implies that when the U.S. Army gets sent in to suppress internal revolts, it will need to err on the side of caution if it wants to avoid killing civilians and consequently destroying the state’s perceived legitimacy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Three Evils of Society: Racism, Militarism and Capitalism

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Previously published Jan. 17, 2016

“What they truly advocate is Socialism for the rich and Capitalism for the poor.” — Martin Luther King, Jr., Address Delivered at the National Conference on New Politics, August 31, 1967

The Radicalization of Martin Luther King, Jr. + Dr. Martin Luther King: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Originally posted on Jan. 20, 2013

“One day we must ask the question, “Why are there forty million poor people in America?” And when you begin to ask that question, you’re raising a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.” — “Where Do We Go From Here?” Martin Luther King, Jr., Aug. 16, 1967

Chris Hedges and Cornel West: America’s Existential Crisis

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with Chris Hedges

RT America on Jan 9, 2021

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to moral philosopher, Dr. Cornel West, about what we can learn about America’s existential crisis after witnessing enraged supporters of Donald Trump storming the Capitol to try and halt Congress’s counting of the electoral votes to confirm the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

Covid-19 as a Weapon in Colonial Genocide, by Rainer Shea

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by Rainer Shea
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Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Jan. 2, 2021
January 3, 2021

This pandemic is being used as a tool in the U.S. settler-colonial empire’s battle against the colonized populations. This weaponization of the outbreak is coming at the same time when rapidly increasing global inequality is heightening capitalism’s contradictions, and when the oppressed nationalities that for so long have lived under the boot of U.S. capitalism are in turn intensifying their fights for liberation.