Communist Party of Illinois

06/22/2021

All Chicagoans Can Now Get COVID Vaccinations At Home For Free — And They'll Get $50 Gift Cards

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Health workers will come to the homes of any Chicagoan 12 or older to get them vaccinated. The shots are free and insurance is not required.

05/12/2021

Daniel Jadue, Communist mayor determined to end Chile’s neoliberal nightmare

Daniel Jadue, Communist mayor determined to end Chile’s neoliberal nightmare

Working and marginalized people in Chile can now see possibilities of relief from the political grief of decades. A new constitution is in the works. And Daniel Jadue, author of an astonishingly progressive program as mayor of Recoleta municipality, a commune in the north of Santiago Province, is a....

05/07/2021

Suspending COVID vaccine patent restrictions puts people before profits

Suspending COVID vaccine patent restrictions puts people before profits

A move is underway internationally to temporarily scrap patent restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines that are making pharmaceutical companies’ profits explode while many countries struggle to inoculate their people against the deadly virus.

04/29/2021

Congress tackles payday lenders after SCOTUS lets them off the hook

Congress tackles payday lenders after SCOTUS lets them off the hook

WASHINGTON —Well, that didn’t take long. A week after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously handed one of the sleaziest sectors of the corporate class, payday lenders, a big judicial win, lawmakers took up the suggestion by the ruling’s author, Justice Stephen Breyer, that they could reverse the....

04/28/2021

04/19/2021

Cancel it: Biden pressured to eliminate $50,000 student debt per borrower

Cancel it: Biden pressured to eliminate $50,000 student debt per borrower

President Joe Biden is under mounting pressure to address the rapidly growing student debt crisis by canceling up to $50,000 in crushing individual student loans. A growing chorus of elected officials and advocates say Biden can cancel the debt through executive action.

04/19/2021

Alice Neel's Communism Is Essential to Her Art. You Can See It in the 'Battlefield' of Her Paintings, and Her Cruel Portrait of Her Son

Alice Neel's Communism Is Essential to Her Art. You Can See It in the 'Battlefield' of Her Paintings, and Her Cruel Portrait of Her Son

Ben Davis reviews "Alice Neel: People Come First" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, looking at how Marxism shaped the famous painter's art.

04/18/2021

Lightfoot dispels lascivious ‘rumors’ about her resignation: ‘I will continue to serve today, tomorrow and into the future’

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/4/18/22390685/mayor-lori-lightfoot-rumors-resignation-chicago?utm_campaign=chicago.suntimes&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

The claim that Mayor Lori Lightfoot planned to step down Sunday was apparently fueled by a now-deleted tweet sent by Ja’Mal Green, an activist and former mayoral candidate who continues to call for her resignation.

04/16/2021

Afghanistan’s socialist years: The promising future killed off by U.S. imperialism

Afghanistan’s socialist years: The promising future killed off by U.S. imperialism

In the mid-1970s and early '80s, People’s World correspondent Marilyn Bechtel was editor of the bimonthly magazine, New World Review. She visited Afghanistan twice, in 1980 and 1981. The article below first appeared in our pages on Oct. 6, 2001—the day before the U.S.

04/03/2021

Gerald Reed freed after 31 years of wrongful imprisonment

https://peoplesworld.org/article/gerald-reed-freed-after-31-years-of-wrongful-imprisonment/

Gerald Reed is finally free after spending 31 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker commuted Reed's sentence to time served on April 1.

03/08/2021

SEIU Graduate Workers Union in stalled talks at Illinois State University

SEIU Graduate Workers Union in stalled talks at Illinois State University

NORMAL, Ill.—In October 2018, Illinois State University’s more than 400 graduate workers voted to officially unionize and be represented as SEIU Local 73.

03/06/2021

GOP, Senate filibuster stand in way of ‘next great Civil Rights bill’

GOP, Senate filibuster stand in way of ‘next great Civil Rights bill’

The Democratic-led House of Representatives is responding to the largest assault on voting rights since Reconstruction with the For the People Act (H.R. 1). The measure passed in the lower chamber on March 3. The fight to win final adoption of the bill now passes to the nearly evenly divided Senate.

03/04/2021

Trial of Derek Chauvin, George Floyd’s murderer, pivotal to reforming racist policing

Trial of Derek Chauvin, George Floyd’s murderer, pivotal to reforming racist policing

MINNEAPOLIS—The consensus among activists speaking at a recent press conference in Minneapolis is that it will take massive street protests to convict Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

03/01/2021

Biden declares support for Alabama Amazon workers’ union drive

Biden declares support for Alabama Amazon workers’ union drive

WASHINGTON—Democratic President Joe Biden has officially backed the union organizing drive at the big Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. In a two-minute-20-second video he posted on Twitter Feb.

02/27/2021

U.S. Peace Council Strongly Condemns
the Biden Administration’s Illegal Bombing of Syria!

February 26, 2021

Only thirty-six days after taking office, President Biden took his first illegal foreign-policy action by ordering an air strike on the sovereign nation of Syria, killing more than a dozen Syrian citizens.

This air strike, a blatant violation of international law and the United Nations Charter, is falsely claimed to have been in response to an alleged rocket attack on U.S. troops by the so-called “Iranian-supported Syrian Militia.” But the facts point to quite a different motive. The real reason behind this act is to force Iran, by means of military action, into accepting to participate in a new round of Nuclear Deal negotiations on the basis of specific U.S. demands. We can only expect that such military actions will continue, and even intensify, so long as Iran refuses to submit to U.S. pressures.

What U.S. is asking from Iran is not limited to the nuclear issue. All US administrations, from George W. Bush administration to the present, have been demanding from Iran to stop its resistance against U.S. imperialistic plans for total domination of the Middle East. The real issue is Iran’s policy of resistance and its ability to mobilize regional forces against U.S. and Israeli aggressions, and Biden’s actions are nothing but the continuation of the same imperialist policies of his predecessors for the Middle East.

We call upon all supporters of peace, justice, and international law to raise their voices against Biden Administration’s aggressive policies against Iran, as such policies are bound to lead to more war, death and destruction for the peoples of the Middle East, and waste of the American people’s much needed resources for solving their health and economic problems in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We call upon Biden Administration to halt all U.S. military and economic wars against the peoples of the world.

Executive Committee
of the U.S. Peace Council

02/18/2021

Bill Davis—beloved labor and peace activist, Communist leader—lost to COVID

Bill Davis—beloved labor and peace activist, Communist leader—lost to COVID

Bill Davis, a long-time trade union and peace activist and Communist Party USA leader, died Jan. 23 in New York while in hospice with COVID-19. He was 78 years old. Davis was a caseworker for the New York City Department of Welfare (later Social Services) and a fixture in the trade union movement.

01/25/2021

Chicago Teachers Union votes to refuse in-person classes and continue remote instruction

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/chicago-teachers-union-vote/2021/01/24/348c7ff6-5e73-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html

As the district prepares to bring back thousands more students on Feb. 1, teachers press for the right to work remotely.

12/17/2020

Occupy Democrats

Occupy Democrats

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12/07/2020

Unity needed to win post-election fights against GOP obstruction

Unity needed to win post-election fights against GOP obstruction

As a nation, we’ve arrived at what some call an “inflection” point. We face immense, overlapping, and intersecting economic, social, and inequality crises, as well as a climate emergency. The COVID-19 pandemic intensifies all of them.

12/05/2020

The short story of Fred Hampton, assassinated Black Panther leader

The short story of Fred Hampton, assassinated Black Panther leader

This is an excerpted version of an article that originally appeared in People’s World’s predecessor publication, Daily World, on January 17, 1970. The short political biography appeared just weeks after the assassination of Fred Hampton, a leader of the Black Panther Party.

12/04/2020

Patients support their striking SEIU nursing care workers

Patients support their striking SEIU nursing care workers

The following article is reprinted from the SEIU website. CHICAGO – Doris Moore became a resident at Ambassador Nursing Home & Rehab Center almost two years ago after a suffering stroke.

11/20/2020

Help People’s World continue to champion the stories of working people

Help People’s World continue to champion the stories of working people

Battles have been won, but the work still continues. This year has not been an easy one for working people. Our collective story has been one where struggle is prominent as we try to make sense of the tragedies that have come our way this year.

11/19/2020

When Mississippi tried to silence Black mayor, People’s World was there

When Mississippi tried to silence Black mayor, People’s World was there

As a young reporter back in the early 1980s, I stayed for weeks at a time in the Mississippi Delta covering the story of the first African-American mayor elected in that state since Reconstruction. But it’s not to the Tchula, Mississippi town hall that I frequently went to meet with him.

11/19/2020

Madigan confidant and ex-ComEd CEO charged with bribery in lobbying scheme

Madigan confidant and ex-ComEd CEO charged with bribery in lobbying scheme

Named in the indictment are Madigan friend Michael McClain, ex-ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore as well as former ComEd lobbyist John Ho**er and Jay Doherty, the ex-president of the City Club.

11/18/2020

ALBA Giving Season 2020 - Sarah Lee Guthrie

ALBA Giving Season 2020 - Sarah Lee Guthrie

Donate here! https://alba-valb.org/donate/ Singer/Songwriter Sarah Lee Guthrie Performing “Deportee” at ALBA’s Online Annual Gala 2020.

10/24/2020

The voter uprising: A sign of good things to come?

The voter uprising: A sign of good things to come?

  The popular chant, “This is what democracy looks like!” can mean many things: people hitting the streets, getting arrested in peaceful protest, organizing themselves into unions, lobbying their elected officials, and yes, even the “simple” act of voting.

10/20/2020

Communist Party USA

Communist Party USA

CPUSA co-chair Rossana Cambron discusses what led her to join the CPUSA and why a vote v. the Trump Agenda is vital today. #VoteAgainstFascism

10/20/2020

Communist Party USA

Communist Party USA

In this #VoteAgainstFascism talk, Joe Sims (CPUSA co-chair) discusses why he joined the Communist Party and its connection to the fight today.

10/19/2020

Sunrise Movement

The climate crisis is one of the biggest issues for young voters and swing voters this year.

Polls continue to show that when a candidate is stronger on fighting the climate crisis young people are more likely to mobilize around them and get out the vote.

Believe it or not, in its current from, Biden's plan is stronger and more progressive than Bernie's was in 2016. That didn't happen out of nowhere. It happened because young people have been pushing politicians and the public on climate for years and we're starting to see the effects of our power.

We are the reason that Biden's climate platform is as strong as it is. We went to his unity task force, and we didn't get everything we need, but we moved it significantly to left and that's why it's the most progressive platform from to date.

We've teamed up with @soyouwanttotalkabout to break down Biden vs. Trump's plan on climate and show you exactly what each candidate is fighting for.

You can help us kick Trump out of office, flip the Senate and usher in an era of the Green New Deal by joining us for only 2 hours a week to get out the vote.

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10/19/2020

Angela Davis Still Believes America Can Change

Angela Davis Still Believes America Can Change

Since the 1970s, the academic and activist has been an icon of feminism and Black liberation. Today, as the battle for equality wages on, the ideas for which she’s long advocated have finally entered mainstream thought.

10/15/2020

Biden proposes science-driven COVID plan; Trump says Americans are on their own

Biden proposes science-driven COVID plan; Trump says Americans are on their own

During the vice-presidential debate, Sen. Kamala Harris recounted the Trump administration's historic failure to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Vice President Mike Pence tried to defend the indefensible and, in desperation, claimed Joe Biden had “plagiarized” the Trump-Pence coronavirus plan,...

10/14/2020

AARP is Voting Yes on the Graduated Income Tax - Helpful Info to Help You Understand Why

AARP says, "Vote YES" on graduated income tax!

For years, AARP has been fighting for commonsense solutions that fix our budget crisis without shifting the burden to older adults and middle-class families. The graduated income tax is a step in the right direction. Voting yes on the graduated income tax could help the state raise around $3…

09/24/2020

Patrisse Cullors: We can cheer Biden and Harris — but still must challenge their problematic past

Patrisse Cullors: We can cheer Biden and Harris — but still must challenge their problematic past

Here's what Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his vice-presidential pick, Kamala Harris, need to do to address concerns about their past criminal justice policies, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors says.

09/23/2020

BrooklynDad_Defiant! on Twitter

Vote Trump out! #BASTA

“Let's AMPLIFY Bernie's message to Progressives. Can we get 5,000 RETWEETS in 3 HOURS? Help spread this far and wide! #ListenToBernie https://t.co/EvLCRyJYGz”

09/22/2020

National Voter Registration Day

National Voter Registration Day

National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September. It's goal is to focus attention on the importance of registering to vote and voting in our