Articles by: Ellen Isaacs

The Climate March: Magnificent and Misdirected

The Climate March: Magnificent and Misdirected

At least 75,000 marched in New York City on September 17, quite impressive, inspiring to be a part of. As compared to previous marches, last seen pre-Covid, there were more people of color, indigenous and immigrant participants. But the question is, what exactly were the demands of this mass assemblage? Of course, the overwhelming message was “End Fossil Fuels,” but[Read More…]

by 25/09/2023 Comments are Disabled Climate Change
If China is Red, Revolution is Dead

If China is Red, Revolution is Dead

My question is this. When war inevitably breaks out between competing imperialists, the US and China, will there be “leftists” who, because they oppose the US ruling class, take the side of China? It seems that way, based on their current defense of China as a socialist of communist state. Some are even defending the Russian rulers against the reactionary[Read More…]

by 01/09/2023 Comments are Disabled World
US Supreme Court Recertifies Capitalism’s Need for Racism

US Supreme Court Recertifies Capitalism’s Need for Racism

On June 30, 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down affirmative action at colleges, except for military ones. Justice Sotomayor says it’s “arbitrary” that affirmative action can continue only at military academies; Justice Gorsuch chastised the continued tolerance for “preferences for the children of donors, alumni, and faculty….”  But there is nothing new or shocking about this ruling. It is[Read More…]

by 03/07/2023 Comments are Disabled World
Sudan: Coups, Imperialists and Resistance

Sudan: Coups, Imperialists and Resistance

January 30, 2022. Update added April 23, 2023 Like all the nations of the Horn of Africa that abut the Red Sea, the main passageway for the transit of Middle Eastern oil, Sudan has been a prize desired by many imperialist nations. (For a background summary of the region, see this.) For 75 years, there has been a large leftist[Read More…]

by 24/04/2023 Comments are Disabled World
Palestinians Don’t Exist?

Palestinians Don’t Exist?

“Palestinians don’t exist.” (https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/03/paris-israels-smotrich-says-palestinian-people-dont-exist-calls-them-fictitious)  This was the recent statement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that made shocked headlines around the world. And, of course, he meant it as an affirmation of Jewish nationalism, the right of Israeli Jews to dispose of all Palestinians from the Jordan to the Sea. Sounds kind of like the Nazis, no? But in a[Read More…]

by 25/03/2023 Comments are Disabled Palestine
Disgrace at the New York Times

Disgrace at the New York Times

The New York Times, that paper in which one can reliably find the agenda of the liberal wing of the US ruling class, is sounding increasingly absurd lately. There was the editorial page piece claiming the masks had been proven to useless in preventing the spread of viral infections (NYT 2/21/23). That generated so much pushback that they had to[Read More…]

by 22/03/2023 Comments are Disabled World
The Villainous Reign of Eric Adams

The Villainous Reign of Eric Adams

  For many centuries, the powerful have helped control their working poor by elevating some of the oppressed to wield the whip. The Romans had the Vigiles, poor men and often ex-slaves who patrolled the streets and fought fires; the Nazis had the Judenrat to carry out their orders in Jewish communities: southern US slave owners knew the advantages of[Read More…]

by 06/03/2023 Comments are Disabled World
Israel: More Right and Too Little left

Israel: More Right and Too Little left

There is much consternation about Israel’s move sharply rightward under Netanyahu’s new government, but it is really just a move to more overt fascism, by which is meant rule by force without any pretense of democracy or respect for human rights. The change is really minimal as Israel has created a society of inequality, racial and gender discrimination and has[Read More…]

by 21/01/2023 Comments are Disabled Palestine
It’s Sickening: Lack of Sick Pay, Leave, Insurance in the U.S.

It’s Sickening: Lack of Sick Pay, Leave, Insurance in the U.S.

Given the level of attention to the recently imposed freight rail contract that provides no, zero, acute sick days for railroad workers earning an average wage of $64,210 (before the recent 24% increase spread out over 5 years), let’s remember their huge toll of Covid-19 cases as shown in this table of infected rail workers from the Federal Railroad Administration.[Read More…]

by 14/12/2022 Comments are Disabled World
Fight Climate Change With Communism

Fight Climate Change With Communism

There is nothing new to say Except that it is astounding, it is horrifying, it is revelatory that Those who began it, who knew what they were doing, who now know That the warming world, their enterprise, will kill itself and us too. And still they barely act.   We will not say anything new Except that we will omit[Read More…]

by 22/11/2022 Comments are Disabled Climate Change
We Need a New Society, Not More Psychiatric Diagnoses

We Need a New Society, Not More Psychiatric Diagnoses

Are you sad because a bout of Covid-19 disrupted your life with illness, bills, or even the death of a friend or family member? Are you anxious because your benefits have ceased and you can’t find a new job? Are you worried because the brain fog after Covid has persisted so long? Are you angry because you are being evicted[Read More…]

by 01/10/2022 Comments are Disabled Life/Philosophy
Revolt in Sri Lanka: Does A Seismic Struggle Guarantee System Change?

Revolt in Sri Lanka: Does A Seismic Struggle Guarantee System Change?

To quote Ahilan Kadirgamar, a political economist at the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, the uprising is “a revolt and not yet a revolution, because it doesn’t want to change fundamental social relations… or property relations.”1 As was the case with the massive upheaval in Egypt in 2011 (https://multiracialunity.org/2021/02/24/revolt-in-india-does-a-seismic-struggle-guarantee-systemic-change/, https://multiracialunity.org/2021/03/18/revolt-in-burma-does-a-seismic-struggle-guarantee-systemic-change/), without a program to challenge capitalism or an organization to[Read More…]

by 07/08/2022 Comments are Disabled South Asia
Exponential Explosions Shake the World: Radical Reorganiztion Required

Exponential Explosions Shake the World: Radical Reorganiztion Required

     It’s only a few months since last we wrote about the dangers of war, pandemics, and climate change reaching a climax (https://multiracialunity.org/2022/05/07/an-exploding-world-requires-radical-change/), but already the crises are intensifying. Inflation, infection, injustice, impoverishment are all further endangering the lives of workers around the world. Consequences of Ukraine War Multiply As the lead op-ed in the NY Times said recently (6/22/2022),[Read More…]

by 29/07/2022 Comments are Disabled World
CDC Prioritizes a Healthy Public or a Healthy Economy?

CDC Prioritizes a Healthy Public or a Healthy Economy?

It is not possible to serve two masters with opposing goals. In the case of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it has not always been obvious that such a dichotomy exists, but it has become ever more apparent since Trump and Covid-19. Before that, many of us relied on the CDC for accuracy, integrity, public health science,[Read More…]

by 25/07/2022 Comments are Disabled World
Walter Rodney – A Revolutionary to Inspire Us Today

Walter Rodney – A Revolutionary to Inspire Us Today

All of us who yearn to see a mass movement of workers united across national, racial and gender lines against capitalism and imperialism should remember and learn from the life of Walter Rodney. A Guyanese historian and activist who was murdered by his own ruling class in 1980 at the age of 38, Rodney understood the pitfalls of pseudo-socialism and[Read More…]

by 24/07/2022 Comments are Disabled Life/Philosophy
2019 Strike

Colombia: You Can’t Elect an End to Exploitation   

Many progressives are excited about the electoral victory of  so-called leftist, Gustavo Petro, who defeated both the centrist candidate representing the status quo and the right wing Rodolfo Hernández. “So-called” leftist is the key word here, because, to quote Petro,  he is fighting for “democracy and peace, not socialism.” 1 He wants to raise taxes on the rich, combat hunger,[Read More…]

by 02/07/2022 Comments are Disabled World
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