Mark Bauer wrote: '"I didn't raise you to be white trash" is a phrase oft-repeated by a certain type of white parent, whom the article classified as "settled," as opposed to "hard-living" folks...Hist

Comrade, Am forwarding your letter to my long-time comrade and friend, Michael Letwin (see link to film and Red Tide history following this note and under-----------------) whose historical roots feat

(JAI: Sent on by longtime comrade, Michael Letwin. The history of the organization below gives one a vast sweeping sketch of the revolutionary movements of the time period, especially so that of LA. A

Comrades, Far as I am concerned there is no hard and fast rule about supporting indigenous movements against imperial intervention. Vietnam taught us (at least, me) that the US withdraws from meddling

Andrew Stewart Jun 6 #17283 wrote: <<Louis said basically everyone who was mobilized by Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and Bernie Sanders should have a concentrated effort to go get hired at Amazon to un

<<Mark Lause Jun 6 #17281 <<Just my two cents for what it's worth. <<This sort of thing backs up on this list like a faulty sewerage system every few years... Agree. JAI

Agree. << Michael Meeropol Jun 4 #17241 <<I believe that bringing together people with years of working class organizing experiences was Louis' vision when he started the list.>> JAI

Regarding 'Middle Class': Working-class versus ‘middle-class’ “In studying such transformations it is always necessary to distinguish between the material transformation of the economic conditions of

"I ain't draft dodging. I ain't burning no flag. I ain't running to Canada. I'm staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. I could be t

<<John Obrien 8:57am #17104 Did someone hack comrade Imani's rmail account? on behalf of John A Imani <johnaimani3@...> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2022 9:29 P He is a decent man. Polite almost to the point

(JAI: Yeah yeah. I know that I will be taken to task for directing comrades to a FOX news broadcast. And especially to a presenter that is an unabashed Christian. But his take on the shootings and the

<<Re To what extent would we say that the capitalist mode of production 'produces' the commodity labour-power? >> Capital produces and must reproduce the workers’ labor-power, i.e. its ability to do w

Regarding Henry George. His 'Single Tax' (on land only) movement founded the town of Fairhope appx 30 miles from my hometown of Mobile, AL. Fairhope, in the main, is still overseen to a great extent b

<<"this is not some world historical email list">> Comrades, Excuse me but it is. I have to disagree with two comrades that I have deep respect for. It is just so because of my hoping that this list's

Hundreds of US Cops Being Trained by Far-Right Extremists "Bad training is instilling bad behavior," said one criminal justice reform advocate. Kenny Stancil May 6, 2022 https://www.commondreams.org/n

Far-right sympathies among California law enforcement going unchecked, audit finds https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-28/audit-of-california-law-enforcement-finds-extreme-bias-among-offi

<<JAI: Here is a recent article about Rodney with the first few paragraphs below and a link to the rest of it on the Portside web page:>> ​Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: The Continu

This is my salute to a great man: The Great Historical Bum Redux Being a Treatment of Woodie Guthrie's “The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done” (G7) I'm (C) just a lonesome traveler, The (G) Great H

Comrades, 75years ago on this date: When Jackie came into the league (1947) damn near everybody became a Dodger fan. I can say that with some confidence cause at 9 or 10 or so years after he broke in,

Union victory for Amazon warehouse could change US labour movement Grassroots Staten Island win shows the power of organising from the bottom up Sarah O'Connor https://www.ft.com/content/39c18844-9855