Fast food workers strike against low pay
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Four hundred fast food workers in New York struck and demonstrated on 4 April to demand a $15/hour minimum wage.
USA/Canada
Trotsky and black liberation
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In the first letter that he wrote to the Trotskyists in the
United States, Trotsky, in exile in Prinkipo, posed to the comrades
the Negro question as a vital part of the struggle for
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on the US Civil War
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Engels called the American Civil War “the first grand war of contemporaneous history”. Marx later hailed it as “the greatest event of the age”.
THE CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES By KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS *
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(February 1938)
THE CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES By KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS
Edited with an introduction by Richard Enmale
The two sides of Abraham Lincoln
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The following article, by black socialist CLR James (writing as GF Eckstein), was first published in the US Trotskyist paper Militant, on 14 Feburary 1949.
An enthusiast for the rank-and-file
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Stan Weir (1921-2001) was a Third Camp socialist, trade union militant and intellectual at the forefront of the post-Second World War US labour movement.
Slavery in the US: liberation from above?
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Sacha Ismail is wrong, I think, against Eric Lee (Solidarity 274). Sacha doesn’t like Eric’s basic point — that the US slaves were liberated “from above” by a white man, using a “white state”.
The Dorner complex
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Christopher Dorner was a former Los Angeles cop. He was sacked in 2008, alleging racism. In February 2013 he allegedly conducted a series of shooting in which he killed four people.
Lincoln, slavery and self-emancipation
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I’m interested by Eric Lee’s idea that Quentin Tarantino’s takes on Nazism and American slavery (Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained) promote the idea of self-emancipation, unlike Steven Spielberg’s (Schindler’s List and Lincoln).
Obama: licensed to kill?
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A US channel has leaked a document written by US government lawyers which argues that it is lawful for the President to kill US citizens just so long as “an informed, high-ranking official” declares that the citizen presents a “continuing” threat to the US.