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[torrid-wind]

The murder of a Soledad Brother

Black Panther and revolutionary prisoner George Jackson continues to inspire nearly 50 years after his murder in prison.

By Luke Pickrell August 21, 2018

GEORGE JACKSON was murdered by prison guards on August 21, 1971. Half a century later, his story deserves to be known by a new generation of activists.

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[rjones2818]

Go Jeremy!

[bolshevikpunx]

Solid article on the state of the liberal-left in the United States, how the left relates to it, and the utter bankruptcy the Democrats have with upcoming midterm elections.

"From the vantage point of the Obama era, it's easy to remember this Democratic Party as the party of Social Security, Medicare and the National Labor Relations Act. But it was also equally the party of Jim Crow, Japanese internment and the Vietnam War. Even at a time of Democratic ascendancy, the seeds for organized labor's defeats in the postwar era were sown with the 1947 passage of the Taft-Hartley Act and the anti-communist witch-hunts of the McCarthy era. The Democrats were never a party for "our side," and they won't be won over to our side in the future. The big business interests that control it will assure that--regardless of how "social democratic" the aspirations of its "base" are. That's why it's important for those who do want to see an alternative to the conservative domination of American politics to face reality. We have to build something politically and organizationally independent of the Democrats."

[slutwalknyc]