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In the 1920s, Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci formulated a political strategy that, a decade later, gave birth to the concept of the Popular Front most famously articulated by Georgi Dimitrov, head of the Communist international. This strategy, which was based on the experience of communists resisting fascism in Italy, Spain and elsewhere, proposed an alliance of all anti-fascist forces, across class and even political divides, in order to first weather fascism and ultimately to destroy it...

Following our trip to Cuba as part of the 3rd US/Cuba Youth Exchange, I traveled with my mother to Mexico to relax, explore and see first hand the struggles of the Mexican people. At first our travel agenda had been to travel south a little bit, see some Mayan ruins, and hang out on the beautiful beaches, but I had additional plans...

Paul Leroy Robeson was the U.S. working class’ greatest voice. One critic described his baritone as “the finest musical instrument wrought by Nature in our time.�? His outspoken activism against racism and imperialism made him one of the most beloved heroes of the international working class...

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Globalization: it\'s a buzzword you can\'t escape. But what on earth does it mean? For some it\'s the ticket to a democratic world of instant communications and global prosperity. While for others it\'s a money-mad juggernaut, spinning wildly out of control, threatening both cultural and biological diversity.
The complex entanglement of cultures and economies has been growing since the colonial era and even before. So today commercial culture and the Western consumer model have seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow.

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During the week of November 17-21st hundreds of thousands of workers, unions, environmental groups, youth and student organizations, global justice groups and civil and human rights organizations throughout North and South America will be participating in a week of educational activities, protests, marches, speakouts and forums focused on defeating the ratification and implementation of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). The fight against FTAA is part of the struggle to defeat the right wing attack on our civil and labor rights, democracy and our environment.

The Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride is an important opportunity to learn from and honor civil rights movement history in the U.S. The 1961 Freedom Rides were incredibly courageous acts of resistance led by many women and men, who still to this day, are leaders in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice. What follows is a short bibliography of excerpts and resources to educate yourself and others about the legacy of the Freedom Rides.

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Las Malinches
Las Helenas de Troya
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We live only two generations after racial segregation laws were outlawed in this country. We are only a few more generations removed from chattel slavery. Racial and gender disparities still abound in nearly every aspect of our society. Yet the Supreme Court took up a case this past summer to test the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education admissions.

To Huu was Viet Nam’s most famous revolutionary poet, who for decades inspired the Vietnamese people with literary and political leadership. Huu was born as Nguyen Kim Thanh in the cultural capital of Viet Nam in 1920 and joined the Communist Party of Indochina at seventeen year of age in 1937. He was jailed for his anti-colonial and revolutionary activities from 1939 until 1942 when he escaped from French prison.

I and seventy other U.S. youth and students arrived in Havana on July 23 as the Youth United Delegation to the Third US / Cuba Youth Exchange. Part of a larger group of around 300 Americans, the Youth United delegates traveled to Cuba to learn as much about this small socialist island as we could in one short week. Even more importantly, we came to show that despite the U.S. blockade against Cuba, the peoples of the two countries will continue to work together toward common goals.

The events following 9/11 have been harried, and often times overwhelming. There has been a flood of new publications since that year trying to piece together a comprehensive analysis of what occurred, what is presently going on and most importantly, why?

The threats to human lives on the U.S./Mexico border have increased in the recent years. It is the great indifference of the two nations, the U.S. in particular, which bred these conditions. The governments on both sides feel it is up to the other to prevent these deaths, when both are to blame.

As I enter the sterile confines of work I’m greeted by 90 pre and post pubescent voices chiming endearments, “Mama Chula!�? “Aute�? “Curly Sue�? and variations of my name “Mel�? “Missy�? “Lissa�?.

As of the 2000 U.S. Census there were seven million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Since then the number has undoubtedly grown and will continue to grow. These immigrants, predominantly from Mexico, are here to find a better life, but end up doing the jobs that most citizens are unwilling to do. They work mainly in agricultural industries or in low-paying jobs in the hotel and restaurant industry.

Over the last several years, hundreds of labor, community and student activists have been engaged in campaigns pushing for living-wage ordinances. Living-wage ordinances implemented at the municipal and county levels raise the minimum wage (that ranges from $5.15 to $6.50 per hour) to a more livable wage for workers that are paid from public funds.

You Back the Attack! We Bomb Who We Want!: Remixed War Propaganda, a new book by Micah Ian Wright is unlike any peace book you’ve ever read. Published by Seven Stories Press, Back the Attack is actually a unique picture book that takes historical propaganda posters from World War II and alters them into satirical critiques of the “War on Terrorism�? and the Bush domestic policy.

Shoshanna Johnson is a single, Black mother who was one of the first Prisoners of War in the immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq.

Doroteo Garcia works the night shift cleaning classrooms at Stanford University, one of the largest employers in California’s Silicon Valley. As a steward for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1877, Doroteo has been active in his union’s efforts to lift janitors out of poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area, as part of SEIU’s national Justice for Janitors campaign. He is also involved as a community leader, organizing for amnesty and immigrants rights.