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May
Day: The struggle to get a life
From
Workers World,
May 1, 2003
May Day originated with the struggle in the
United States for an eight-hour day. The Knights of Labor called national
strikes in both the U.S. and Canada on May 1, 1886. In Chicago, police fired
on the striking workers, killing six. This and the fierce struggle that
followed led the International Working Men's Association, meeting three years
later in Paris, to declare May 1 an international workers' holiday. Today, it
is celebrated more in the rest of the world than here. The U.S. bosses never
want workers to act together with their sisters and brothers in other
countries... 
The
times they are a-changing
by Deirdre Griswold
From
Workers World, February
20, 2003
It
is times like these that reveal the true strength of the contending forces in
society. Not just their strength in numbers, or their strength in weapons, but
their strength of conviction, purpose and belief in their vision of the future.
The Bush administration has been preparing for its war on Iraq as though
nothing in the world can stop it from going ahead. It has very big plans.
Besides having a completely grandiose view of achieving U.S. global supremacy,
it is trying to carry out a restructuring at home at the same time. It is
hacking away at what remains of social programs for the poor, privatizing
government workers in a direct attack on unions, raising racism against
immigrants to a new level, outlawing dissent, and trying to create such a
climate of fear that opposition to its lunge to the right will crumble...
Jiang Zemin's Speech at the Meeting
Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China
From China.org.cn, July, 2001
Note:
Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
of China (CPC), delivered an important speech before an assembly gathered in
the Great Hall of the People in Beijing July 1, 2001 to mark the 80th
anniversary of the founding of the Party. The following is the full text:
Comrades
and Friends,
We gather here today at this grand rally to celebrate the 80th anniversary of
the founding of the Communist Party of China together with the people of all
ethnic groups across the country, and look to the bright future of the
development of China and the rest of the world along with all people on earth
who love peace and pursue progress…
The Case for Communism
by John Foster
From the
Communist Party of Britain
How
should we put the case for communism? Today. After the disintegration of the
Soviet Union. At a time when the working class movement is ideologically weaker
than it has been for many years. And when many on the Left themselves are
uncertain about the feasibility of either a planned economy or any alternative
type of state power that could administer it. This article is written to start
a discussion. It will attempt a case for Communism, but its main purpose is to
identify those issues which require further debate…
New Millenium Greetings - Direction
of Future is Clear
From People's Democracy, Weekly Organ of the
Communist
Party of India (Marxist), January 2, 2000.
This year's New Year Greetings acquire an added significance. Standing at the
threshold of the 21st century, all of us are witness to humanity's transition
to the third millennium.
It is only natural that in all such periods of transition, the concerned
generation would look back at the achievements and experiences of the century
that has turned into history. And every generation would rightfully claim that
the century that has passed had made an irreversible impact on the development
of human civilization...
The Bolshevik Revolution & Red
October - Taking the Lessons Forward
From
Umsebenzi, Voice of the
South
African Communist Party
November - December 1999
Following,
are excerpts from the address given by SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande to
the 82nd Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution Rally in Cape
Town (7th November).
We
are gathered on a very important day in the history of working class struggles
in the 20th Century. We are celebrating the 82nd anniversary of the Great
October socialist revolution - the first truly workers' and people's uprising
against exploitation, oppression and capitalism...
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