Resolution in Support of BDS and in Opposition to Anti-BDS Efforts

By / October 2, 2018 / International

WHEREAS, Zionist forces have carried out a continuous program of settler colonialism, apartheid, occupation, and ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Palestinian people. WHEREAS, Palestinian civil society has called for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights. WHEREAS, there are ongoing legislative efforts… Read more »

Resolution on Democracy in Brazil

By / October 2, 2018 / International

WHEREAS, the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America has condemned the sustained attack on Brazilian democracy by the government of Michel Temer and his allies in the Brazilian judiciary. WHEREAS, the political, civil, and social rights have been eroded during Temer’s presidency, including the political rights of jailed former President Luis Inácio Lula da… Read more »

the diggers illustration

People’s History: The Diggers

By / April 1, 2018 / People's History

People’s History: The Diggers On this day in 1649, a working-class movement, that would come to be known as the Diggers, believing that the land belonged collectively to all, arrived on St. George’s Hill in Surrey, England and began to communally sew crops in defiances of the landlords. “This Declares likewise to all Laborers, or such as… Read more »

Kids striking in Burston Strike

People’s History: Students on Strike!

By / April 1, 2018 / People's History

Today is the anniversary of the longest strike in UK history when young primary school students went on strike for 25 years after the sacking of their two socialists teachers. Soliciting donations from all over the country the students along with their former teachers founded an alternative school known as the Burston Strike School to… Read more »