International Socialist Organization - NoVa/GMU Branch

Come check out our table in the North Plaza on Wednesday starting at 10:30! We will have copies of the Socialist Worker and Haymarket publications. Come talk with us.

Don't forget, our meeting on the New Jim Crow is this evening at 5:30. Come out for some education, discussion, organizing, and old fashioned rabble rousing. In closing, "F**k the pigs." - Fred Hampton

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"Today, 9-11, marks the 39th anniversary of the CIA backed coup of Salvador Allende, the democratically elected president of Chile. The brutal coup was organized by the U.S. government and the Chilean military. With the support of the U.S. government, Augusto Pinochet took and maintained power for 17 years. His rein was marked by some of the worst human rights violations in the history of Latin America. Pinochet’s dictatorship, again with U.S. support, massacred over 3,000, tortured over 29,000, detained over 250,000 in concentration like prisons, and forced over 200,000 into exile, to say nothing of the decreased wages, and the rise of economic inequality. Let us not forget this important day in history, the first 9-11, September 11, 1973." (via Anderson M)

"Up with the teachers!
(Yeah, yeah)
Down with the bosses!
(Boom, boom)"

The Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) is asking for several million dollars to fix old and dilapidated schools that lack basic air conditioning and libraries. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has committed the city of Chicago to spending upwards of $25 MILLION to increase police patrols and otherwise break the CTU. Who really cares about our children? SUPPORT THE CTU IN THEIR STRIKE FOR BETTER EDUCATION!!

The Chicago Teacher's Union (CTU) is on strike for several million dollars in school improvements, air conditioning for students, and more teachers and staff. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and his lackeys at Chicago Public Schools want to close these schools and give them away to private charter schools. Who is really looking out for our children? Support the CTU! The fate of education in America is at stake.

Obama the Warrior

'Last week, the journal Foreign Policy published an extraordinary article – not extraordinary because of what it says, but because of who said it. It was written by Aaron David Miller, a lifelong D.C. foreign policy bureaucrat who served as a Middle East adviser to six different Secetaries of State in Democratic and GOP administrations. Miller’s article ... was entitled “Barack O’Romney,” and the sub-headline said it all: “Ignore what the candidates say they’ll do differently on foreign policy. They’re basically the same man.”'

salon.com A new NYT article sheds considerable light on the character of the Democratic Commander-in-Chief

Women shave their heads to protest surface mining

Appalachian women shave their heads to protest mountain top removal or surface mining.

wowktv.com A group of women shaved their heads today at the West Virginia Capitol to protest surface mining.

Collateral Damage in the War on Protesters: Neighbors of the NATO3 Cuffed, Held at Gunpoint

“Near the end, the white shirt came in and said, ‘Sorry boys, you all were collateral damage.’ Those were his exact words.” Ben reported being told the same.

“In my view it’s not that there were terrorists next door,” Olli said. “It’s that the cops were terrorizing us.”

truth-out.org Collateral Damage in the War on Protesters: Neighbors of the NATO3 Cuffed, Held at Gunpoint

Missouri Anarchists Beaten in Jail, Call for Solidarity | Anarchist news dot org

"Upon their release, we learned that while being interrogated one prisoner had a knife held to their throat, that they were choked and lifted off the ground and punched in the chest for non-compliance. One comrade, who is facing the most serious charges, was brought to the interrogation room where a detective repeatedly struck him in the face, breaking his nose while he was shackled to the floor."

We Socialists and Anarchists disagree on matters of analysis and political practice, but we as radical leftists have common cause in the overthrow of the capitalist regime and the resistance against police oppression. What wounds one militant leftist must wound all, because we show a united front against the system which needs replacing. The police are despicable, disgusting slave masters and servants to the exploiter ruling class. This incident is especially disgusting and vile, and it is A CALL TO ACTION:

The ruling class and the enforcers of their property interests must be resisted at all costs. It is your obligation as a progressive to become involved in whatever capacity you are able in the struggle for the liberation and emancipation of the working classes of the planet. As per the Anarchist slogan: "Agitate, Educate, Organize."

anarchistnews.org On May 24th 30-40 people answered the call for a Chicago solidarity demo through the downtown St. Louis bar district.

The Principles of Communism

The Principles of Communism (Frederick Engels 1847) Study Guide

marxists.org The Principles of Communism

Obama Personally Oversees 'Secret Kill List': NYT

"QUICK SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE"

"This 'kill list' includes teenage U.S. citizens."

commondreams.org President Obama, who ran for the nation's highest office on a promise to close Guantanamo and end the war in Iraq, has now become a president who personally oversees a covert assassination program that allows a small group of top US officials to monitor, select, and mark for death those it alone dee...

Cheating runs rampant

"No Child Left Behind has created a culture in which people will do anything to keep their jobs."

salon.com No Child Left Behind has unleashed a nationwide epidemic of cheating. Will education reformers wake up?

The Principles of Communism

In the future socialist society, "Instead of generating misery, overproduction will reach beyond the elementary requirements of society to assure the satisfaction of the needs of all; it will create new needs and, at the same time, the means of satisfying them. It will become the condition of, and the stimulus to, new progress, which will no longer throw the whole social order into confusion, as progress has always done in the past. Big industry, freed from the pressure of private property, will undergo such an expansion that what we now see will seem as petty in comparison as manufacture seems when put beside the big industry of our own day. This development of industry will make available to society a sufficient mass of products to satisfy the needs of everyone."

marxists.org The Principles of Communism

Going nuclear-free: Germany smashes solar power world record

"Germany’s solar power plants produced a record 22 gigawatts of energy on Friday, equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear plants. The country is already a world-leader in solar power and hopes to be free of nuclear energy by 2022."

trueactivist.com Germany’s solar power plants produced a record 22 gigawatts of energy on Friday, equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear plants. The country is already a world-leader in solar power and hopes to be free of nuclear energy by 2022.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/168066/week-poverty-wage-theft-city-millionaires

Wage Theft in the City of Millionaires: The Houston economy is creating more millionaires than any other city in the US. It’s also stealing more than $753 million annually from low-wage workers. (thenation.com)
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True Activist

What is Single Payer? | Physicians for a National Health Program

"Single-payer is a term used to describe a type of financing system. It refers to one entity acting as administrator, or “payer.” In the case of health care, a single-payer system would be setup such that one entity—a government run organization—would collect all health care fees, and pay out all health care costs."

It's like there was a game of dodgeball, and the American public were all out after a decade long struggle between them and big industry, and the game can either go into overtime and more players from the public team will be back in the game to try and win, or the game can go into a sudden death between industry and the public.

President Obama, as the duly elected public team captain, looked the rest of his team dead in the eye and said "Don't worry. You guys worked hard to get us this far. Leave the rest to me. I got this." And strolled out into the middle of the gym floor for sudden death.

Then he walked up to big industry and put the ball in their hand so they could tag him out. Big industry ended up losing a couple game points to the upstart public team, but ended up remaining the f**king champion after Obama betrayed the American public and sold them out for bullsh*t Obamacare.

pnhp.org Single-payer is a term used to describe a type of financing system. It refers to one entity acting as administrator, or “payer.” In the case of health care, a single-payer system would be setup such that one entity—a government run organization—would collect all health care fees, and pay out all hea...

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The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Amnesty International Rules: NATO is the only

"Amnesty shamelessly parrots the claim that the war in Afghanistan has resulted in "progress" for Afghan women."

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Police kettle Montreal student protesters, arresting 400 - Montreal - CBC News

"694 arrested in Montreal and Quebec City last night as students continue to protest the proposed tuition increase.

-Solidarity from Virginia."

cbc.ca Police in Montreal moved in on student protesters again Wednesday night, kettling them and making 400 arrests — the largest number in one night since the demonstrations began weeks ago.

Philosophy ( philo- "loving" + sophia "knowledge" )

Cheap Textbooks | Rent Used Textbooks | ValoreBooks.com

Ayo, cheap textbooks. Chegg is alright too. Selling your $200 books back for $3 is a scam.

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How Rural America Got Fracked

'"It looks like a disaster zone, like a bomb went off." - How rural America got fracked:'

motherjones.com The environmental nightmare you know nothing about.

Socialism 2012 | Educate • Agitate • Occupy

"You can still get the discounted early registration rate if you sign up by tonight!"

socialismconference.org Socialism 2012: Educate • Agitate • Occupy

"No NATO, No War": U.S. Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War Medals at NATO Summit

democracynow.org We broadcast from Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization’s six-decade history. On Sunday, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as members of Afghans For Peace, led a peace march of thousands of people. Iraq Veterans Against the War held a ceremony where nearly 50 ...

Toward a More Perfect Student Unionism: Lessons From the Maple Spring |

"While here in America, students on many campuses have limited themselves to mourning, elsewhere in the world they have taken to the streets – and there is much we can learn from their activism, in order to better our own."

alternet.org Activists from CUNY hold forth on what the US student movement needs now.

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Government tyranny: Illinois Department of Agriculture secretly destroys beekeeper's bees and 15 yea

Government tyranny: Illinois Department of Agriculture secretly destroys beekeeper's bees and 15 years of research proving Monsanto's Roundup kills bees

naturalnews.com Government tyranny: Illinois Department of Agriculture secretly destroys beekeeper's bees and 15 years of research proving Monsanto's Roundup kills bees

Marching for a world without war and poverty

"Some 15,000 protesters took to the Chicago streets on a sweltering Sunday in the culmination of a week of protests against the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization."

socialistworker.org Some 15,000 protesters took to the Chicago streets on a sweltering Sunday in the culmination of a week of protests against the NATO summit.

Students defy new laws and take to streets again

"Sixty-nine people were arrested Saturday during the 26th straight night of protests in downtown Montreal. About 5,000 people, many of them defiantly wearing masks, marched through the city streets."

torontosun.com Quebec's emergency law and Montreal's mask-ban law have done little to quell the civil unrest across the province or dampen people's desire to protest.