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by Danny Katch
socialistworker.org
November 4, 2015
Bernie Sanders is calling for revolution on a regular basis during his campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. But what does he mean by a “political revolution” and what would it take to actually achieve one? , author of Socialism…Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation, provides some answers.
“READY TO start a political revolution?”
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by Danny Katch
socialistworker.org
October 8, 2015
Every time layoffs are announced or vital government benefits are slashed, we’re told that there is no alternative because the money isn’t there. But this is a bald-faced lie, explains , author of Socialism…Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation.
DOUGLAS, ARIZONA, is a town on the Mexico border with 17,000 people and now no hospital.
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by Danny Katch
socialistworker.org, Sept. 8, 2015
September 10, 2015
Despite being declared dead and buried for decades, recent opinion polls show that almost a third of Americans prefer socialism to capitalism. Socialism beats capitalism outright among people in their 20s, low-income people of all ages, and especially among African Americans and Latinos. But while the idea of socialism is in the air, what it means is vague to most people, and how to achieve it even more so.
by Danny Katch
socialistworker.org, Sept. 4, 2014
September 6, 2014
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Is there an alternative to a world of wars, racist violence, poverty and suffering? , author of the e-book America’s Got Democracy! and the forthcoming What Is Socialism? makes the case for why you need to be part of the struggle for a different world. The International Socialist Organization is holding public forums on this and other topics around the country this fall. Ask your local ISO chapter for more information. Continue reading
by Danny Katch
SocialistWorker.org
December 11, 2013
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SPEECHES THAT go down in history do so for different reasons.
Mario Savio’s call to students to throw themselves on the “gears of the machine” during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964 conjures the best of the moral outrage of that era. Sojourner Truth’s biting question “Ain’t I a woman?” conveys the impossible position that Black women still hold at the intersection of two different forms of oppression. Continue reading
