Waffle House, like many struggling industries across the country, has chosen to place the burden of its lost profits on the shoulders of those who keep it running every day of the year. COVID-19 has brought opportunity again and again for corporate entities and long-standing business empires to ravage the pockets of their workers, those whose labor has lined corporate pockets for generations. Read the full article: https://www.liberationnews.org/waffle-house-puts-profits-over-people-in-the-covid...
May 30, 2020•6 min
Listen to organizers from the PSL speak on their experiences organizing Cancel the Rents Car Caravan protests! And join us May 30 for another national day of action to Cancel the Rents! https://www.canceltherents.org/ This podcast is taken from PSL's weekly public livestreams. Follow us on Facebook here. https://www.facebook.com/pslweb/
May 29, 2020•31 min
The Movement now isn't being placated by any promises. We're demanding that the officers involved be named, fired, indicted and convicted. And we'll stay in the streets until that happens. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.
May 29, 2020•4 min
We've been here before: when they kill our children, they then try to assassinate their character. Lynchings have a deep history and tradition in the state of Georgia and this country. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.
May 28, 2020•6 min
Thousands of people gathered in Minneapolis May 26 to protest the killing of George Floyd and the entire system of white supremacy that police uphold. The previous day George Floyd was pinned to the ground by Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin’s knee pressed against Floyd’s neck as witnesses urged Chauvin to stop. Shortly after, Floyd was pronounced dead. His last words were, “I can’t breathe.” The so-called justice system of the United States fails to protect those har...
May 28, 2020•5 min
The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns the vicious killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department. We extend our deepest sympathy to his family and his community. Firing the officers is not enough. Officer Derek Chauvin, and his three police accomplices, must be immediately arrested and charged. Justice can only begin with a conviction and sentencing of all involved! Read the full article at: https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-justice-for-george-floyd/
May 27, 2020•5 min
These underlying conditions are not even about individual people in and of themselves, but the circumstances of structural racism in which they live. This takes on its own reality here in the time of a pandemic, in the time of COVID-19. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.
May 27, 2020•4 min
Class 2 of a 3-part series. There are times when solidarity appears more important than ever. When things are tough, we need comrades who will have our backs. This three-part course examines political solidarity by focusing on comradeship as the relation between those on the same side of a political struggle. Taught by political theorist and organizer Jodi Dean, this course draws on ideas developed in her recent book, Comrade: An essay on political belonging, and discusses what it means to be a ...
May 27, 2020•51 min
No more genocide. We say enough is enough. We will stand to defend our right to live in our homelands, free from tyranny, and free from disease. This is a life or death situation, and we all have a right to life. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.
May 26, 2020•12 min
The best antidote to COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism is solidarity with the Asian communities and Asian nations, and also public health options. We must have all hands on deck to uproot racism and fight for international cooperation. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.
May 25, 2020•5 min
What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that cause. These days, Memorial Day is arranged as a day “without politics”—a general patriotic celebration of all soldiers and veterans, regardless of the nature of the wars in which they participated. This is the opposite of how the day emerged, with explicitly partisan motivation...
May 25, 2020•9 min
The best antidote to COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism is solidarity with the Asian communities and Asian nations, and also public health options. We must have all hands on deck to uproot racism and fight for international cooperation. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.
May 24, 2020•4 min
NYC cannot police its way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Creative solutions, not budget cuts are what's needed. The police don't serve our interests, they only serve the interests of the ruling class. Hear PSL organizers speak on coronavirus and the epidemic of racism in capitalist America.
May 23, 2020•6 min
Class 1 of a 3-part series. There are times when solidarity appears more important than ever. When things are tough, we need comrades who will have our backs. This three-part course examines political solidarity by focusing on comradeship as the relation between those on the same side of a political struggle. Taught by political theorist and organizer Jodi Dean, this course draws on ideas developed in her recent book, Comrade: An essay on political belonging, and discusses what it means to be a ...
May 20, 2020•52 min
Since taking office, the aggressively anti-environment, anti-people Trump regime has overturned nearly 100 environmental regulations — 34 of which are still being fought in the courts. The rollbacks include lifting restrictions on power plants, vehicle emissions, extractive industries and toxic substances, opening up protected lands for drilling, and overturning laws protecting water and wildlife. These rollbacks will increase greenhouse gas emissions just two years after scientists warned that ...
May 19, 2020•6 min
The war hawks want you to believe that China is bullying and threatening the United States. Don’t fall for it — the truth is just the opposite. Now more than ever the world needs international cooperation and dialogue, not “great power competition” leading to potentially devastating conflict. Day in and day out on TV, in newspapers, online and in the halls of Congress, the White House and think tanks, the elite molders of public opinion repeat one message over and over: China is the aggressor on...
May 18, 2020•9 min
Building unity between the union and the community. "We as a union have fought for privileges for ourselves, but we know that beyond our personal needs, we also have to lift up families. If we don't rise together, we're going to go back to the same situation we faced before." Hear PSL leaders speak on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle from a recent livestream.
May 18, 2020•7 min
The power of strikes and the continuing class struggle. "We were able to undo the damage of a decade of austerity, now we are facing COVID-related budget cuts that threaten to erase our gains from the strike. But what cannot be erased is the fundamental shift in consciousness that came about from our strike." Hear PSL leaders speak on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle from a recent livestream.
May 17, 2020•8 min
Reds in Ed: a new initiative from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. "Our communities are on the front line and we, as teachers, stand atthe intersection of so many communities. We have to be tribunes of the people and commit to a struggle for the common good." Hear PSL leaders speak on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle from a recent livestream.
May 16, 2020•3 min
Budget cuts and the covid-19 crisis, exacerbating inequities in NYC and beyond. The intequities that students and their families face are already noteworthy. Cutting the budget will push NYC publish schools into an even deeper crisis which we may not be able to bounce back from. Hear PSL leaders speak on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle from a recent livestream.
May 15, 2020•8 min
"We know our role in society. We know our families trust us. We know people stand for public education. And we're going to use every opportunity right now to build a fight back for public education. Because when we come together, as workers, as families, as students, we can win!" Hear PSL leaders from a recent livestream on the fight for public education in the new era of class struggle.
May 14, 2020•13 min
The capitalist mode of production is slowing the development of vaccines including for COVID-19. When the polio vaccine was developed in the 1950s, inventor Jonas Salk famously compared the absurdity of patenting the polio vaccine to “patenting the sun.” If a vaccine is treated as a commodity instead of as a public good, the price paid is in human lives lost. A global pandemic must be matched by a global effort. The World Health Organization and European Union have launched plans to coordinate e...
May 14, 2020•11 min
The Trump administration is attacking Trans health access during this pandemic! The latest attack takes the form of an expected rewrite of the Affordable Care Act, which protects trans people from discrimination in healthcare. The rule’s rewrite has been a long time in the making. In May 2019, HHS proposed allowing healthcare workers permission to deny care to LGBTQ patients for "religious" or "moral" reasons. Now, the HHS is looking to formally finalize this assault and legally permit discrimin...
May 11, 2020•12 min
Hear PSL leaders speak on how the Chinese community is organizing to fight back against anti-China racism.
May 11, 2020•5 min
Hear PSL leaders speak on how the fight back has begun, and the difference between our protests and the reactionary right-wing protests.
May 10, 2020•5 min
What would a socialist government's response be to a crisis like the one brought on by the coronavirus? Hear PSL leaders speak on building a socialist working-class party in the U.S. from a recent livestream.
May 09, 2020•9 min
A real socialist movement can't be based on a politician. In order to build a socialist movement, the working class needs its own party. Hear PSL leaders speak on building a socialist, working-class party in the U.S.
May 09, 2020•12 min
To confront this centralized, massive power structure, we have to build a counterforce of the organized people from all sections of the working class and exploited peoples. Hear PSL leaders from a recent livestream on building a socialist working-class party in the U.S.
May 08, 2020•7 min
The U.S. ruling class has perpetuated the myth that it is the greatest country. Suddenly, that myth is now being wiped out in the blink of an eye. Hear PSL leaders speak on building a socialist working-class party in the U.S. from a recent livestream.
May 07, 2020•12 min
In the early morning of Sunday, May 3, the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela along with the Special Actions Forces of the Venezuelan National Police repelled an armed invasion by speedboats off the coast of La Guaira, less than an hour from the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, recalling past U.S.-backed paramilitary invasions in Latin American states such as the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and the Contras in Nicaragua. As we go to press, the government has issued a maximum alert, with other terr...
May 06, 2020•6 min
