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Sunsara Taylor writes for revcom.us and advocates the new communism forged by Bob Avakian. She is a co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org working to drive out the Trump/Pence Regime.
SHARE Thursday, May 23, 2019 Will Women Be Regarded as Human Beings Or Incubators?
A vicious wave of extreme anti-abortion legislation is being hammered into law across the US. This assault on abortion is part of a worldwide escalation of misogyny bound up with the resurgence of fascism and religious fanaticism in the face of a rapidly changing world. People need to fiercely protest, struggle against, and truly fight to defeat these monstrous measures that represent a misogynistic assault on the people!
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 29, 2018 You Want A World WITHOUT Oppression, Or Just Your Turn On Top? Women Need Revolution--Not Revenge!
In a recent New York Times column, Jennifer Weiner plumbed the depths of her fury at the lifetime of patriarchal insult and injury faced by her and all women. But rather than aim her fury at ending sexual assault, violence against women, and the system that gives rise to it, she plunges into a gruesome, small-minded vision of revenge. Fury alone is not enough--Where SHOULD our fury drive us?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Susan Faludi: It's Time to Cast off Magical Thinking and Prepare for Struggle!
Susan Faludi, a longtime feminist author who has made important contributions to understanding and fighting the oppression of women, wrote a NY Times column in which she imagines a world where nominally pro-choice Republican senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski could "halt the whole charade, and alter the course of history, with a press release" and by them switching parties. To this I can only respond: WAKE UP!
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 29, 2018 An Answer to My Hecklers: Are You Willing to Follow Your Convictions... ALL the Way?
Near the end of my speech at a protest last week, some in the crowd tried to drown me out with cries to "focus on the children" and "vote them out." Apparently they thought my bringing up the need for an actual revolution and even of the need for millions of people from diverse political perspectives to come together to drive out the Trump/Pence fascist regime was not germane to the issue of the children.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Dear Jeremy Scahill: Yes, The Democrats ARE Part of the Problem--So Stop Pretending They Can Be Part of the Solution!
In his podcast, Jeremy Scahill gives damning exposure of the horrific leap the Trump/Pence regime is making in relation to truly sick and vicious treatment of immigrants--now literally tearing infants and children from the arms of their parents. Refreshingly, Scahill gets at something essential: BOTH the major parties of this country are guilty of towering crimes. But then abruptly, Scahill's "reasoning" drops off a cliff.
SHARE Sunday, June 10, 2018 Five Things You Need to Know in Light of the Upcoming Supreme Court Abortion Case
A decision is expected soon from the US Supreme Court on a challenge to a 2015 California law requiring anti-abortion fake clinics (so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers") to disclose that they are not medically certified. The law also requires all licensed clinics that provide ultrasounds, pregnancy tests, and birth control advice to post information about affordable abortion and contraception services offered by the state.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 17, 2018 Why We MUST Fight Ferociously to Remove the Trump/Pence Regime From Office--A Rebuttal to Vox's Dylan Matthews
Matthews makes a well-argued--but dangerously wrong--case against what he sees as the unfounded and harmful hopes many harbor to see Trump removed from office. He cautions that the best we can hope for and must actively work towards is to muddle through this disastrous presidency. Aiming for more, he says, will stand in the way of stymieing the worst of Trump's agenda. This argument is not only delusional, it is deadly.
(26 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 7, 2017 Why the Attacks on Antifa Are Shameful--And Why These Attacks MUST BE OPPOSED
Recently, "Antifa" has come under a sustained and many-sided political attack, including from liberal and some "progressive" voices, attacks that echo Trump and other forces. It matters that Antifa--along with other groups and individuals, including revolutionary communists--stood their ground and fought back in Charlottesville. Who among the so-called "leftists" and liberals would have preferred the outcome had they not?