Alabama warehouse workers take on Amazon
Amazon workers at a Bessemer, Ala., warehouse took a big step toward organizing the first union ever in that behemoth company, when the National Labor Relations Board green-lighted their request for a unionization vote. Bessemer is a former steel-producing city adjoining Birmingham.
On Dec. 18 the NLRB affirmed it was “administratively satisfied that there is a sufficient showing of interest to proceed,” in a statement by Terry D. Combs, assistant director for the agency’s Atlanta region.
The BAmazon union, as local organizers dubbed it, goes forward with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The RWDSU has a strong Southern membership, with 6,000 in the Mid-South Council based in Birmingham.
I bring up this tired old cliché because of its applicability to the Parentis, father and son. The father, Michael Parenti, is a hardcore Communist activist who wrote for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) theoretical journal
Political Affairs among other CP publications. He is the author of 23 books (some used as college texts) and countless more articles. His specialized area of focus is on the structural class conflict of capitalist society and power. His communist affiliations were written up in the pioneering study book,
Covert Cadre” Inside the Institute for Policy Studies by S. Steve Powel, Green Hill Publishers Inc. The son, Christian, is a correspondent for
Nancy Pelosi is a clever Communist, make no mistake about it. As David Horowitz says, she’s a very intelligent operative. While that may sound crazy, it’s not and many probably sense it’s not. You probably sense it’s not.
A Stalinist Is Her Hero
She once gave a speech on the floor of Congress honoring Harry Bridges, the head of the longshoreman’s union. He was a hardcore Marxist, a Soviet in fact. He was her favorite Stalinist and he was one of Frank Marshall Davis’s heroes. Davis is the one who mentored Barack Obama.
Pelosi’s closest colleague in the House, and the Burton brothers, John and Phil, manned the party’s left fringe, bringing the party far-left. She came from an area of the country which houses our furthest left politicians the San Francisco Bay Area.
New Book Digs Into Government Files to Keep Alive Memory of Radical Folk Artists
Portrait of Josh White, Cafe Society (Downtown), New York, New York, circa June 1946. William P. Gottlieb / Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress / Getty Images
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Aaron J. Leonard is a most unusual writer. He scrutinizes the files of repressive (supposedly investigative) government agencies â a veritable treasure trove of false accusations of disloyalty and potential subversion. Readers who seek a social history of the folky victims of these agencies will not find it in Leonardâs latest book,
He does not slow his fast-paced narrative to ponder the historical background of the victims in their own time and place. But his sources direct him to the government-eye-view, evidently as severe under Democrats as under Republicans, fearful alike of the power of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, also eager to see the specter of a multiracial Communist Part
a Perdue advertisement said.
When fact checking this claim we went directly to the source. When speaking with the Communist Party USA, we were told the claim is wrong. The Communist Party neither endorses nor donates to candidates of other parties, Roberta Woods, a spokesperson for the Communist Party USA said.
As for the claim about Ossoff s business ties to the Chinese Government. Senator Perdue s ads point to a business transaction from Hong Kong.
Although the business transaction did take place, the company in question is a public company who paid for licensing of a documentary from Ossoff s company.
Jon Ossoff is the CEO of the media production company, Insight TWI.