June 2016
To Be or Not to Be in the European Union: That is Not the Question
Brexit has prevailed with 51.9% of the votes in the referendum that took place on June 23. For months, a nauseating campaign was dominated by reactionaries, nostalgic of the British Empire, and xenophobes of all kinds wanting to make migrants …
OPD: Exposing a Corrupt Society
The sex scandal involving the Oakland Police Department has exposed the level of corruption throughout all of law enforcement. According to the East Bay Express, at least 28 police officers on multiple occasions had sex with a teenager who was …
Why Socialism – by Albert Einstein
download PDF of this pamphlet The following essay was written by Albert Einstein and published in the May 1949 issue of Monthly Review Magazine Why Socialism?by Albert Einstein (1949) Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on …
Fracking – Another Sign of an Insane System
download a .pdf of this pamphlet updated Aug. 2018 Hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” is a highly polluting process used to extract oil or natural gas trapped in rock formations deep underground. Fracking has destroyed water supplies, sickened people …
Hollande and Valls Want to Silence the Protests – They Won’t be Able to!
Unable to silence dissent against the Work law, Hollande and Valls threatened to ban demonstrations due to the “violence acts” that happened. As if by chance… Didn’t the Euro football championship lead to much more violent excesses like the clashes …
What Now? Don’t Give Up!
The massive success of the June 14 demonstrations is clear. The mobilization against the Work law has continued for more than three months and shows no sign of letting go. Different sectors went on strike: refiners, garbage collectors, railway workers… …
The Orlando Tragedy – Product of a Violent Society
Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in the Pulse dance club, a club for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered and queer (LGBTQ) people in Orlando, Florida. What do we know about Mateen, the 29-year-old man who …
Reform vs. Revolution (June 11, 2016 – Brooklyn, NY)
download 8.5 x 11 flyer [.pdf 475kb] How Do We Build A Revolutionary Organization In The Working Class How Do We Link Contemporary Struggles and Campaigns to the Working Class We have seen responses to the violent attacks of capitalism. …
All Together, We Will Make Them Back Down!
Gattaz, Valls and Hollande have tried all kinds of disinformation: they said the strikers take the population “hostage”, they used blackmail about “the image of France” with the arrival of the Euro Cup, or they called to end the strikes …
France: “They Have Billions — We Are Millions”
On June 14, hundreds of thousands of French workers went on strike and held demonstrations. This action followed three and half months of struggles and over a dozen days of strikes and demonstrations, by workers and their student allies against …
