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I suspect that many of us use our favorite form of address – “comrade” — with either a certain sense of sarcasm, or a longing for the romance of old-fashioned revolution. But the term does far more for us than replace the
Fiction. Fiction is a strange thing. As the first world grew ever more comfortable and complacent over the last couple of decades, fiction became more powerful than fact. It dominated entertainment, as it always has, but it expanded and took over the
As a feminist, I have always thought my relationships should be 50-50 — meaning each person should do 50% of the work in the relationship and pitch in to make things work. That has always been my ideal, but it never seems
Everyday I see the future of education unfolding and revealing itself in bits and pieces. Today, I sat in the campus center at Moorpark Community College and heard Jeff Duncan-Andrade speak to a room full of educators and administrators. Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Ph.D.,
by Greg Pason Workers of All Countries Unite! is a revolutionary call that all socialists can support. It is the idea that working people — no matter where they live, no matter their nationality, race or gender — have more in common
Recently, my partner, Rachel, and I have been trying to add to our garden in our backyard. We really lucked out when we moved into our current home, an above-ground basement unit of a duplex house. Our backyard currently includes many fruit
Not much can be said about Jean-Jacques Rousseau or his most famous work that havenʼt already been said. As a man, Rousseau has been labeled both a genius and a charlatan, and a visionary intellectual pioneer of modern society and a bricklayer
When frequenting any Leftist space, either online or in-person, there are always comrades who insist on a hierarchy of oppression. They are devoted to the idea of class struggle as the ultimate struggle in our lives. The struggles for racial and sexual
In January 2011, the people of Egypt, long dispossessed by the ubiquitous corruption and brutality of a repressive State and the privations enforced by its policies, rose up to cast it down. As the protests unfolded and the reactionaries viciously reacted, I
This is the introductory piece for my new column, Observations of a Radical. It is my hope and intention that I will be able to convey my opinions on how capitalism has created a backwards reality for working people, as well as
