The Mandate of Heaven (Excerpt). A detailed account of Maoist Chinese foreign policy is beyond the scope of this article, but some examples will illustrate the central thesis: that China’s foreign policy is in no way different from that of other world powers. The Three-Worlds Theory was used to justify Chinese alliances with right-wing reactionary governments during the 1970s and 1980s.

Happy 5th Anniversary, America!

On March 27, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. After previously rejecting Mumia’s request to present evidence of his innocence, as well as a host of issues showing that he was railroaded by a racist court, the Court turned down Mumia’s request for a new trial. It upheld the 2001 ruling by a federal district judge that ordered a new hearing on the sentence, but limited the “choice” to the living hell of life imprisonment without parole ... or execution. Mumia is innocent. He was declared guilty and sentenced to die because of his revolutionary politics and because for years he had been a thorn in the side of the racist rulers of the misnamed “city of brotherly love.” Around the world, millions have come out in defense of Jamal. This latest ruling, like all those that preceded it, shows that the exploited and oppressed must have no faith in the racist injustice system. We call on the workers movement to mobilize its power to free Mumia now!

Robert Egger talks about the next generation of nonprofits. Recorded February 13, 2008 at Olin Women's Building, Washington University in St. Louis.

While I myself was a critic of Democratic African-American Congressman William Jefferson of New Orleans for receiving what appears to be stock shares in a public company for using his influence to lobby for contracts for that company in Africa - I oppose completely the FBI's use of tax payers' money to entrap that congressman. While defrauded investors such as myself are made to feel helpless and hopeless before the SEC and the DOJ in retreiving our own legitimately derived money from those who run penny stock scams and send our money to anonymous accounts offshore that the FBI should have an obligation to search and prosecute - it is an insult to use additional taxpayers money just for the political purpose of 'setting up' a Congressman or any other person because they are in a minority political or racial or economic class or the prosecutors have a Republican or other agenda.The $90,000 used by ther FBI to entrap Congressman William Jefferson,for example,could have been used instead to prosecute Florida Congressman Tim Mahoney and his vFinance,.......

In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East. This is the first time in decades that an American union has decided to undertake industrial action against a U.S. war. The action announced by the powerful West Coast dock workers union, to stop work to stop the war, should be taken up by unions and labor organizations throughout the United States and internationally. And the purpose of such actions should be not to beg the bourgeois politicians whose hands are covered with blood, having voted for every war budget for six and a half years, but a show of strength of the working people who make this country run, and who can shut it down!

Ward Connerly, that high profile opponent for affirmative action and Black water carrier for the new Jim Crow, has returned. He wants to eliminate affirmative action everywhere, and make a buck at the same time... Connerly's "Super Tuesday for Equal Rights" is an effort to promote ballot initiatives throughout the country that would eliminate tax dollars to affirmative action programs based on race and gender. He has targeted five states for this year's November ballot -- Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma -- all of which have relatively low numbers of people of color. In the absence of a determined and coordinated campaign to quash his efforts, he might succeed in taking us back to the future we know too well.

Momentum is gathering to recall Mayor Slay. You can help by either signing petitions at polling places or gathering signatures as a volunteer.