Wretched homeless people look up at abandoned Superman Building in Kennedy Plaza

Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating California wildfires

 

" The fact that such a devastating event could take place in modern America speaks to the immense social crisis of contemporary capitalism, which subordinates all aspects of social life to the pursuit of private profit "

         And many more will be homeless when the great burning " Camp Fire " is over. And subordinating " all aspects of social life to the pursuit of private profit " is exactly why nothing much has changed for homeless Americans since ( I recall ) the very beginning of the Reagan era.

 Almost daily I observe Jack London's " People of the Abyss " in Kennedy Plaza , Providence, Rhode Island, precious human beings rendered sickly and nearly brainless - and hopeless - by extreme destitution. They daily look up at an abandoned tall building called the Superman Building .

Only true socialists defend Julian Assange

Discussion on World Socialist Web Site 8 comments

Defend Julian Assange against US charges!

' [ Most striking, however, has been the abandonment of Assange by virtually all the middle class pseudo-left organisations in the US, Australia, Britain and around the world.] '

    The World Socialist Web Site gets this very right : there are acid tests for SOCIALIST convictions and defending the persecuted -like Julian Assange - is one of them.

             The American ruling class does not care to notice how little support there is among the American working class for this HATE RUSSIA intrigue and lunatic preparations for nuclear World War III .

        The Great French Revolution of 1789 , the American Revolution of 1776, the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Chinese Revolution of 1949 , the Cuban Revolution of 1959 - all these popular uprisings are consigned to the DEAD PAST ?

            Long ago Hegel and Marx discovered something LIVING ( a living PROCESS ) about the stream of history.

           We are always in just a moment of time. But the capitalist ruling class agrees with one of their very own shining lights , Henry Ford : " History is bunk ! " .

What was so anti-Semitic about Lib Dem MP David Ward 2013 comment ?

Quite relevant article from the BBC in 2013 :
' [Lib Dem MP David Ward has been summoned to a meeting with Nick Clegg following a series of controversial comments he has made about Jews.

The BBC understands the Lib Dems have invoked full disciplinary proceedings against the Bradford East MP.

He has already been reprimanded over remarks he made on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day about Israel and "Jewish atrocities" against Palestinians.

The MP said there was a "difference of opinion" with his party over the issue.

Mr Ward was forced to apologise two weeks ago after sparking a storm of protest when he said on his website that he was "saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps, be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians...and continue to do so". ] '

    WHAT IS SO ANTI-SEMITIC about Ward's comment ? ( Radical Ron asks )

  " I'm always amazed at how you try to rope Zionism and Israel into almost anything. No matter the subject. wow. " ( to Radical Ron )


" Facebook hires former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg " ( today's headline on World Socialist Web Site )
By Joe Mount, 16 November 2018
'[ Clegg joins Facebook at a time when it is censoring socialist, left-wing and oppositional web sites, including the closure of hundreds of such sites over the last several weeks.] '

        There is philosophy of life first associated with the German Hegel who pondered the CONNECTEDNESS of all things.

How can anybody who believes in democratic values compartmentalize the contradictions of Zionist Apartheid Israel ?

             I note that " Hitler " Trump is popular in Israel . Why ? Are Zionists now flirting with " white supremacy " ?

           In the United States the Israel Lobby clearly favored " Hawk Hillary " for president in 2016 .
This internal conflict is presently deciding American foreign policy.

         The American working class ( mostly Christian ) never voted for any " special relationship with Israel ".

     Yet WHO makes the sacrifices in all our stupid and endless wars ?