this statement of solidarity and condolences to the Venezuelan people first appeared at workers.org Workers World Party and Can’t Jail the Revolution join the Venezuelan people in grief over the loss of the great revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez. The death of a larger-than-life leader like Chávez is hard to take. Millions around the world will …
by Cam Aviles So this poem to me is highly layered and reveals A LOT about me and A LOT about “The Struggle.” Every time I spit to crowds I ask myself: Do they see the images? Can they make out the images I am trying to convey? So this is a visual that people …
Why this blog? The United States has never been an easy place to be a socialist, communist, or revolutionary. Over the last 80 years, the US government spent millions on anti-communist propaganda, as well as billions more on arming anti-communist movements around the world. From the time we are born, this propaganda bombards our psyche …
by Caleb T. Maupin May 20 — The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Society and Art is a New York City college that has long been associated with progressive politics and activism. The college was a center of the abolitionist movement, and Abraham Lincoln gave a historic anti-slavery address there in 1860. In … Continue reading »
“When the U.S. vilifies or threatens war against a people, our instinct should be to unconditionally and vocally oppose this aggression, rather than scrutinize the victim.” by Andy Koch I walk out of the job training classroom and into a nearby break room. A small group of recent college graduates in their early twenties, … Continue reading »
WW photo: Dante Strobino by NC Student Power Union Raleigh, N.C — On May Day, the NC Student Power Union mobilized more than 350 students from 10 colleges from all around North Carolina to participate in a demonstration against the Legislature’s regressive agenda. Students began their day with a rally at the North Carolina State … Continue reading »
March to confront austerity, attacks on working class Historic Thousands on Jones Street march, Feb. 9, Raleigh, N.C. Photo: North Carolina Student Power Union by Zaina Alsous, Workers World Party member and Can’t Jail the Revolution Contributor This article was originally posted in Workers World newspaper: http://www.workers.org/2013/04/24/may-day-in-raleigh-n-c/ Durham, N.C. — With extreme right-wing ideologues in the Legislature … Continue reading »
by Scott Williams The facts are alarming. Young people and students privileged enough to go to college face a combined college debt of more than $1 trillion. That’s $1,000,000,000,000. Two-thirds of students who graduated in 2011 had student debt, averaging over $27,000. Meanwhile, 53 percent of recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed. 37 percent … Continue reading »
by Prashanth Kamalakanthan While the Obama administration continues to claim that it is providing only “nonlethal” aid to the Syrian opposition, its role in fueling the bloody war there is increasingly coming to light. After two years of conflict, more than 70,000 people have been killed and over a million displaced in what is being … Continue reading »
Welcome to April’s Revolutionary Art Roundup – a hodgepodge offering of radical/revolutionary art that we here at Can’t Jail the Revolution have appreciated and thought about recently! Enjoy! Rebel Diaz Arts Collective’s tribute to the late Hugo Chavez — be sure to support this important political arts collective, which has recently come under attack by … Continue reading »
