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When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

On July 4, 1901, socialist leader Eugene Debs gave a speech in Chicago, Il. in which he said: "It is Socialism or capitalism; as capitalism declines, Socialism follows it, so it is only a question of time." Here we reprint the speech in full.  

Residents of Puerto Rico are confronting the prospect of a fresh hurricane season, which will likely bring five to nine hurricanes, including one to four major hurricanes. The island, badly battered by last year's Hurricane Maria, still hasn't recovered. We continue to learn more about how dire the disaster has been.

Contrary to contemporary debates about so-called identity politics, black liberation and labor politics are quite enmeshed. In W.E.B. Du Bois’s lesser-read tome, the 1935 Black Reconstruction in America, he conceives of slave fugitivity in terms of “a general strike against slavery”— slaves were also workers, and their interference with the normalized, inhumane hum of Southern profits was a stoppage and protest against untenable labor conditions. “The whole move was not dramatic or hysterical,” Du Bois wrote... Читать дальше...