The following is a statement from People's Defense GJ, the Grand Junction local chapter of the national People's Defense Committee. PDC is a revolutionary mass organization with the mission of uniting working people to struggle within our own neighborhoods - to contest power and to build a powerful movement of and for the working class. … Continue reading May Day Statement by People’s Defense Grand Junction
Anti-Intellectual Movement and CMU
by Worker's Red Horizon As CMU students return to campus this fall, it is important to discuss the disease that infects their education. This is a man-made disease that tears families apart as it reinforces bigotry and greed in the country we call home. This disease has a name, the “Anti-Intellectual Movement.” The Anti-Intellectual Movement … Continue reading Anti-Intellectual Movement and CMU
What Are Third Spaces?
by Payton Young Most Americans spend a great majority of their waking hours in two places; The home and the workplace, or as I will refer to them, the first and second places. Between these exists a third place, somewhere between leaving work and going home to enjoy some sort of recreational activity and socializing. … Continue reading What Are Third Spaces?
What is Politics?
If We the People wish to be victorious in the class struggle that bifurcates all of modern society, then we must understand this simple truth; we cannot rely on the power of the capitalists. We must build our own power, and we must build it independently from the power of the capitalists. This necessitates the creation of an independent political organization which operates as a political combat organ of the working people. The building of such an organization is the basic task of socialists and communists nationwide.
The Poverty of Economics
Since the beginning of written history human society has been divided into classes. These class divisions will be different depending on the particular society you are looking at and its peculiar conditions. Some societies, like Ancient Rome, had class systems based on slavery and land ownership, with slaves and Plebeians at the bottom, and slave owners and land-owning Patricians at the top. In such societies, if you are a slave, or if you are a “free” Plebeian who owns no little to no land, you are a nobody, and as such have the rights of a nobody.
The Revolutionist 