Racism
Convention Discussion: Two critical areas of our work
Submitted by Juan Lopez, National Vice Chair, Oakland, CA Below are some thoughts on the fight for equality, and campus work. They aren't meant to be comprehensive; rather their purpose...
Convention Discussion: Racism is still our #1 fight
Submitted by Ben McManus, New Haven, CT Despite the election and re-election of Barack Obama as president, the United States is not yet a post-racial society. While white liberals and...
Convention Discussion: Privilege – Towards a Marxist analysis
Submitted by Dee Myles, Chicago, IL The promotion of the concept of privilege is spreading like wildfire. A class is being taught at Harvard, and everybody is talking about the...
Convention Discussion: The importance of the struggle for full equality & against racism
Submitted by the Communist Party of Eastern Pennsylvania & Delaware Racism can be defined as any action, practice or belief, or social or political system that considers different races to...
Convention Discussion: Thinking about nationalism
Submitted by Kuya Kemet, Baltimore, MD Someone asked the great Kwame Nkrumah what his understanding was of nationalism. His answer was that there are different kinds of nationalism: narrow nationalism,...