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No Choice for Workers? Here we go again. Four more years have passed since the last presidential election cycle, and once again, organized labor finds itself with no real options. Are “political and economic death by hanging” or “political and economic death by drowning” really the only options?
WIL Ten Year Anniversary and Socialist Appeal Subscription Drive! To celebrate 10 years of the WIL, we are launching a subscription drive with the aim of doubling our subscription base. We are also appealing for donations to our Press Fund to help us expand our work.
The Fundamentals of Marxism: A Short Reading List Marxist theory is the basis upon which our analysis, perspectives, program, and participation in the movement are based. It is our "guide to action." This why the WIL and IMT place so much emphasis on political education. This selection of writings is an excellent introduction.

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  • La Izquierda Socialista: New Website of the Mexican Marxists! Check out La Izquierda Socialista (The Socialist Left), the new website of the Mexican Marxists!  The latest news and Marxist analysis from our neighbors to the South.  Published in Spanish.
  • Carta abierta a Richard Trumka, presidente de la AFL-CIO, de la Campaña por un Partido Laborista de John Peterson, de la Campaña por un Partido Laborista de Masas, escribe una carta abierta a Richard Trumka en respuesta a las recientes declaraciones de Trumka relativas a la independencia politica...
  • Un Programa Obrero Para la Crisis Un nuevo volante de la Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores y El Militante Sin Fronteras. Nuestra propuesta para una solución a la crisis economica que enfrentamos los trabajadores. ¡Únete a la WIL...
  • Su Reforma y la Nuestra Un nuevo volante de la Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores. Con las marchas del 1º de mayo, la inmigración se vuelve de nuevo en un tema de discusión. Desde el 2006, cuando millones...
  • ¡Una fábrica cerrada es una fábrica ocupada! El liderazgo sindical debe de movilizar a los trabajadores para exigir un plan de recuperación económica para volver a abrir y capitalizar las fábricas cerradas, nacionalizarlas bajo...
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Attacks on NY Public Sector Workers Intensify: How Can Labor Fight Back?

nypubPublic sector workers in New York State and City continue to be attacked by Governor Cuomo and Mayor “1%” Bloomberg. These attacks are part of a nationwide effort, in fact, as part of an international strategy, to make the workers both in the public and private sector pay for the continuing crisis of capitalism. The working class can stop these attacks and go on to the offensive, but for this to happen we need a different policy from the labor leaders.

 

The President That’s “Got Our Back”?

120509 POL ObamaInterview GayRights.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-largeIn an ABC-exclusive interview, President Obama has gone on record to “affirm that [he thinks] same-sex couples should be able to get married.” He has now become the first sitting U.S. president to say that he believes that this basic democratic right should be extended to gays and lesbians. LGBT rights activists across the country are celebrating this hard-fought progression, and rightfully so. But what does this really mean?

 

The Murder of Trayvon Martin

trayvon2We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask

The first stanza of Dunbar’s poem articulates  the racial anxieties felt by black Americans in the late nineteenth century. Tragically, this poem and its sentiments are as timely now as they were in 1896...now, in our supposedly“post-racial” society, issues of racial bias and profiling have sprung into the national discourse with the killing of an unarmed young man in Florida by an armed neighborhood watchman.

   

WIL Ten Year Anniversary and Socialist Appeal Subscription Drive!

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We’ve come a long way since the Workers International League was founded 10 years ago. From our humble beginnings in Fargo, North Dakota, to a dozen modest but growing branches around the country, we have worked hard to begin establishing roots in our unions, workplaces, schools, and communities. These have been tumultuous years of war, revolution, and counter-revolution, and Socialist Appeal has consistently provided news, theory, and analysis from a working class and Marxist perspective. to celebrate the WIL’s ten year anniversary, we are launching a subscription drive with the aim of doubling our subscription base. We are also appealing for donations to our Press Fund to help us expand our work.

   

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The Fundamentals of Marxism: A Short Reading List

Marxist theory is the basis upon which our analysis, perspectives, program, and participation in the movement are based. It is our "guide to action." This why the WIL and IMT place so much emphasis on political education. To this end, we have created an extensive Education Plan to assist comrades in their political development. This is an important resource. However, it's length and scope may seem...

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Introduction to "Four Marxist Classics"

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Science and Dialectical Materialism

Dialectical Materialism is a way of understanding reality; whether thoughts, emotions, or the material world. Simply stated, this methodology is the combination of Dialectics and Materialism. The materialist dialectic is the theoretical foundation of Marxism.  We provide various educational readings on dialectical materialism and its relation to natural science.

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Historical Materialism

Marxists attach enormous importance to the study of history; not for its own sake but so as to study the great lessons it contains. Without that understanding of the development of events, it is not possible to foresee future perspectives.

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Marxist Economics

Only with a Marxist understanding of capitalist society can the conscious worker cut through the lies and distortion of the capitalist economists and combat their influence within the Labor Movement.

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Marxism and Anarchism

What are the differences between Marxism and anarchism? What relationship have followers of these two philosophies had in the past?

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Marxism and Feminism

The oppression of women has been a key question for Marxism. After all, women constitute half the human race, and have faced discrimination and degradation in many areas of life.

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The National Question

The question of nationalities, that is, the oppression of nations and national minorities, which has characterised capitalism from its birth till the present time, has always occupied a central position in Marxist theory.

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Marxism and Religion

We have received quite a few e-mails from our subscribers asking about the attitude of Marxists to religion.

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The United States

The struggle of the working class in the United States will be a decisive factor in the outcome of the class struggle around the world. We provide here a list of works explaining the important role of the working people of the US.

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