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Book cover on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

In the 1960s, Roland Sheppard regularly attended Malcolm X’s meetings in Harlem. He is one of the few remaining people who personally witnessed the assassination of Malcolm X in the Audubon Ballroom. Purchase the e-book.

Civil Rights Movement book cover with protest image.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Dream’ is not possible under the ‘nightmare’ of capitalism. The system of capitalism is based on the exploitation of labor, and racism is required to divide and weaken the working class. As Malcolm X said, “Racism is profitable. If it was not profitable, it would not exist.”

The previous Civil Rights Movement offers valuable lessons for today: if we don’t let them divide us; if we keep our politics independent of the Republican and Democratic Parties and the Government; if we rely only upon our own power in the streets, in the schools, and at work; if we take up the struggles of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the many other heroes of the movement, we can win. — Roland Sheppard

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation—they want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. — Frederick Douglass

The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. — Malcolm X

Man speaking at podium with raised finger.

Roland Sheppard Speaking Against Gentrification, San Francisco City Hall, 4/26/06

My name is Roland Sheppard, and I am a retired business representative of Painters Local #4 in San Francisco. I have been a lifelong social activist and socialist. Prior to my being elected as a union official in 1994, I worked for 31 years as a house painter. My web page stands for the quality of all people. These essays are written from my ground-floor view as a participant in the Antiwar movement, the Black Liberation Movement, the Women’s Movement, and the struggle for workers' democracy and freedom for all humanity. For Socialism!

These are my essays from my perch on the Painter’s Ladder. I was in the words of Robert Tressell, a Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, a phrase that Tressell used in his book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, to explain the exploitation of workers under capitalism who willingly sell their labor and donate the surplus value, which their labor produces, to the boss. (Hear A Lecture About The Ragged Troussard Philanthropist.)

I have led a unique life. I am one of the few people remaining who were at the Audubon Ballroom when Malcolm X was assassinated.

House painting was my vocation, but working for a better world has been my lifelong avocation. I became especially interested in the environment when I was diagnosed with cancer due to my work environment as a painter.

I learned how to write essays when I first got a computer in 1998. Using the internet and my word processor, I was able to put together all the medical legal arguments on my breakthrough workers’ compensation case in California, proving that my work environment, as a painter, had caused my cancer. During the course of the five-year struggle, I won a $300,000 settlement of my court case and, incidentally, I learned how to write.

In my retirement, I am writing about my life experiences as a socialist, as a participant in the Black Liberation Movement, the Union Movement, and almost all social movements. My essays are based upon my involvement in the struggle for workers' democracy and freedom for all humanity. It is my hope that these essays, which I regularly update when I discover more facts, will help future generations of Freedom Fighters.

Yours for freedom,

Roland Sheppard, [email protected].

My Essays Book Reviews

Workplace Roulette: Gambling With Cancer

Workplace Roulette: Gambling With Cancer Workplace Roulette: Gambling With Cancer Written by: Matthew Firth, James...

The Media Monopoly

Book Review: The Media Monopoly By Roland Sheppard Media Monopoly The press is so powerful...

The Judas Factor

Book Review: The Judas Factor by Karl Evanzz In this book, Evanzz documents how the intelligence community, the...

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-405-X, Paperback, U.S. $10/Can. $16.50. 160 pages...

Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks At Cancer and the Environment

Living Downstream An Ecologist Looks At Cancer And The Environment by Sandra Steingraber (New York:...

Living Black History

Living Black History How Re-Imagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future, by Manning Marable...

Civil Rights Movement

Legal/Extra-legal Terrorism Has Been a Tool of the United States 1% to  Subjugate Black People

Legal/Extra-legal Terrorism Has Been a Tool of the United States 1% to  Subjugate Black People...

New Orleans After Katrinia Essays

Fusion TV’s: A First Look: Who Killed Malcolm X? — A More Subtle Assassination of Malcolm X  and The Man He Had Become, When He Was Assassinated.

Fusion TV’s: A First Look: Who Killed Malcolm X? — A More Subtle Assassination of...

Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Text)

Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. By Roland Sheppard ReMarx...

Book Review: ‘Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.’

Book Review: ‘Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.’ Review by...

Book Review: The Media Monopoly

Book Review: The Media Monopoly  By Roland SheppardMedia Monopoly The press is so powerful in...

PG&E Ripoff: Return of the Robber Barons

PG&E Ripoff: Return of the Robber Barons According to Webster’s unabridged dictionary, a Robber Barons is: An...

The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement

The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement By Roland Sheppard  The Rise and...

2004: Did You Know Hunters Point Naval Shipyard  Still Has Radioactive “Hot Spots” Since World WarII?

What is stated in 2004 is confirmed in 2018. but the building still got built...

Obama’s Coup D’état — A Police State In Imerging

Obama’s Coup D’état — A Police State In Imerging Learning from history and the recent events in...

The Historic Role of Police Brutality in the Black Community and African American Oppression

The Historic Role of Police Brutality in the Black Community and African American Oppression To...

The First Impeachment Trial: Andrew Johnson

The First Impeachment Trial:  Andrew Johnson in 1868 By Roland Sheppard 1868 Senate Impeachment Trial For...

The State of the Union and the State of Capitalism

The State of the Union and the State of CapitalismThe 1% are getting richer —...

Malcolm X 3/12/1964 Press Statement After He Broke From the NOI

Malcolm X 3/12/1964 Press Statement After He Broke From the NOI Because 1964 threatens to...

Documentaries: Who Killed Martin Luther King? by Michel Perbot

Documentaries: Who Killed Martin Luther King? by Michel Perbot Part 1 Who Killed Martin Luther King?...

The Degeneration of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)

The Degeneration of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) Jack Barnes Longtime SWP ‘leader’ Socialist Workers Party’s...

San Francsco: Explosion at Southeast sewage treatment plant: City’s safety violations exposed

San Francsco: Explosion at Southeast sewage treatment plant: City’s safety violations exposed By Roland Sheppard  “A tank...

Reparations and Capitalism

Reparations and Capitalism The World Conference on Racism held in Durban, South Africa, several years...

My Efforts to Prevent Painters’ Occupation Cancer

My Efforts to Prevent Painters’ Occupation Cancer As painters, we contracted ourselves to work 40...

Book Review: ‘Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.’

Book Review: ‘Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.’ Review by...

Justice and Injustice in California: A comparison between rich and poor communities

Justice and Injustice in California: A comparison between rich and poor communities By Roland Sheppard There is...

John Lewis 1963 March on Washington Speech

Moyers & Company John Lewis Marches On Two Versions of John Lewis’ Speech July 24, 2013...

Editorial: Black Community Control of the Police

Editorial: Black Community Control of the PoliceNo Justice, No Peace, Without Black Community Control of...

2004: Did You Know Hunters Point Naval Shipyard  Still Has Radioactive “Hot Spots” Since World WarII?

What is stated in 2004 is confirmed in 2018. but the building still got built...

Diallo Verdict Gives Police a License for ‘Legal Lynchings’

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in New York City, shouting, “No justice, no peace!”...

Crime and Punishment: ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ Targets Blacks and Poor

Crime and Punishment: ‘Three Strikes and You’re Out’ Targets Blacks and Poor By Roland Sheppard Counties Enforcing “Three Strikes” Heaviest...

An Open Letter To The San Francisco Board Of Supervisors: Re 50% Hiring Mandate

An Open Letter To The San Francisco Board Of Supervisors: Re 50% Hiring Mandate Dear...

The Ethnic Cleansing of New Orleans 2008: A Requiem

The Ethnic Cleansing of New Orleans 2008: A Requiem By Roland Sheppard Bendib When I first...

All They Will Call You Will Be ‘Refugees’

All They Will Call You Will Be ‘Refugees’ Katrina ‘refugees’ sat in the streets outside...

Legal/Extra-legal Terrorism Has Been a Tool of the United States 1% to  Subjugate Black People

Legal/Extra-legal Terrorism Has Been a Tool of the United States 1% to  Subjugate Black People...

Environment

“Trade Secrets” Cancer and the Environment (What the Bill Moyers Program “Trade Secrets” Revealed)

“Trade Secrets” Cancer and the Environment(What the Bill Moyers Program Trade Secrets Revealed On March 26, 2001,...

Nuclear Power: What Have They Done to the Rain?

Nuclear Power: What Have They Done to the Rain?  In the early 1960s, Joan Baez sang...

Whither Humanity? The Environmental Crisis of Capitalism We don’t Need a Green New Deal! — We Need a Green Industrial Revolution!

Whither Humanity? The Environmental Crisis of Capitalism We Don’t Need a Green New Deal! — We...

Visions of Sustainable America

Visions of Sustainable America Many advocates for the environmental justice movement recently joined together to...

The Poisoning of Children & The Arrogance of Wealth

The Poisoning of Children & The Arrogance of Wealth New York City Focuses on Lead...

The Myth of Kyoto

The Myth of Kyoto A worker walks home from a copper smelter in Karabash, Russia....

The Fight to End Global Warming

The Fight to End Global Warming Stop Global Warming The following “warning” was printed on...

The Environment and Cuba

Feel free to distribute these as you wish. I first published them in Socialist Action Newspaper, but...

There Are No ‘Safe Radiation’ Levels!

There Are No ‘Safe Radiation’ Levels! As we continue to learn at such a huge...

The Burning of Southeast Asia

The Burning of Southeast Asia A recent article in Socialist Action, on the forest fires in Asia...

Seattle IMF Environmental Protest

Seattle IMF  Environmental Protest A law enforcement agent sprays pepper spray at the crowd 1999 Seattle WTO protests...

Oil Workers Killed by Company Neglect

Oil Workers Killed by Company Neglect Huge Explosion Rocks Richmond Oil Refinery / Thousands ordered...

Ocean Pollution— “Oceans Without Fish”

Ocean Pollution—”Oceans Without Fish” Ocean I am a regular reader of Rachel’s Environment and Health Weekly http://www.rachel.org/home_eng.htm on...

Pollution and Prejudice in San Francisco

POLLUTION AND PREJUDICE by Kevin WilliamsTuesday Dec 30th, 2003 7:47 AM The proliferation of pollutants,...

Human Society Stands At The Crossroads:Either Socialism Or The Destruction of Humanity

Human Society Stands At The Crossroads:Either Socialism Or The Destruction of Humanity People & Planet...

Greenwashing the Philly Oil Explosion and Fire

Greenwashing the Philly Oil Explosion and Fire (All is Safe as the Carcinogens Burn) Philadelphia Energy...

Editorial: U.S. Capitalism Can’t Get The Lead Out of the Environment!

Editorial: U.S. Capitalism Can’t Get The Lead Out of the Environment! Lead Poisoning in Children...

Earth Day Editorial: Survival of the Human Species is Now at Stake!

Earth Day Editorial: Survival of the Human Species is Now at Stake! In Its Death...

United States Coronavirus Pandemic Crisis: Lessons to be Learned

If You Want Pandemics, Build Factory Farms It should be made clear that the source of COVID-19...

Big Energy Frackers Keep on Fracking With Their Own Private Water Supplies During Drought!

Big Energy Frackers Keep on Fracking With Their Own Private Water Supplies During Drought More...

Big Oil’s ‘Killing Field’s’

Big Oil’s ‘Killing Field’s’San Francisco Chronicle Photo by Sam DeanerHuge Explosion Rocks Richmond Oil Refinery/Thousands ordered...

Another Global Warming Elephant in the Room: The Pentagon Military Industrial Complex!

Another Global Warming Elephant in the Room: The Pentagon Military Industrial Complex! By Roland Sheppard Where...

The Other San Francisco: Institutionalized Racism

The Other San Francisco: Institutionalized Racism By Roland Sheppard Muhammad Speaks As we celebrate Martin Luther...

The Environment and Cuba

Feel free to distribute these as you wish. I first published them in Socialist Action Newspaper, but...

Cuba The Road Not Taken: The Other Cuban Revolution

Organic Farming — Cuba: “The Road Not Taken”: The Other Cuban Revolution University of Cienfeugos...

An Ecosocialist Manifesto

(The Australian newspaper Green Leftpublished this draft Ecosocialist Manifesto on September 24. It will be discussed...

For A Ecosocialist United Front!

The Global Climate Emergency is Now!Global Warming Emergency! From: Crushing Climate Impacts to Hit Sooner Than Feared:...

For Want of a Vaccine the World is Lost: Free the Vacine!

For Want of a Vaccine the Delta Variant Went Global! When I was young I...

The First Impeachment Trial: Andrew Johnson

The First Impeachment Trial:  Andrew Johnson in 1868 By Roland Sheppard 1868 Senate Impeachment Trial For...

An Open Letter To The San Francisco Board Of Supervisors: Re 50% Hiring Mandate

An Open Letter To The San Francisco Board Of Supervisors: Re 50% Hiring Mandate Dear...

Labor

Why The West Virginia Teachers Won! Where to go from here?

Why The West Virginia Teachers Won! Where to go from here? I agree most of Bruce...

Wildcat Protest Against Employer-Union Partnership

By ROLAND SHEPPARD SAN FRANCISCO-On Thursday, May 20, hundreds of carpenters shut down construction at...

Why The Chicago Teachers Union Strike Was Won!

Why The Chicago Teachers Union Strike Was Won!Polls say that most Chicagoans support the striking...

Why I Do Not Celebrate Labor Day But I celebrate May Day

Why I Do Not Celebrate Labor Day But I celebrate May Day! By RolandSheppard Retired Business Agent...

Editorial: Re: California Governor wants to pass a massive $3.6 billion tax plan on autos

Editorial: Re: California Governor wants to pass a massive $3.6 billion tax plan on autosCalifornia Governor Jerry...

US Government Declares War on West Coast Dockworkers

US Government Declares War on West Coast DockworkersOn Tuesday, Oct. 8th, Federal District Judge William...

San Francisco: 1000 Nurses Rally For ‘Medicare for All

San Francisco: 1000 Nurses Rally For ‘Medicare for AllSan Francisco, Ca. 09/15/0011 Today I went...

PG&E’s Christmas Rip Off Time To Nationalize Energy Corporations!

PG&E’s Christmas Rip Off Time To Nationalize Energy Corporations!: News Item: PG&E customers get bill for...

PG&E Robber Baron Redux

PG&E Robber Baron Redux July 2019 Update: California 99% Taxpayers to Pay For PG&E’s Deferred Maintenance (The 1%...

US Government Declares War on West Coast Dockworkers

US Government Declares War on West Coast Dockworkers On Tuesday, Oct. 8th, Federal District Judge...

Energy crisis or capitalist crisis?

Energy crisis or capitalist crisis? States and provinces that experienced the blackout; not all areas ...

San Francisco Labor Council Says Yes to the Gentrification of Hunters Point

San Francisco Labor Council Says Yes to the Gentrification of Hunters Point: Labor Council Reports Taking...

The Condition of the United States Working Class —  Where Do We Go From Here?

Since  One-Third of All Black Men in America Are Classified As Ex-Felons. and Black Ex-felons Have a Life...

The Condition of the United States Working Class — Where Do We Go From Here?

Since One-Third of All Black Men in America Are Classified As Ex-Felons. and Black Ex-felons Have a Life...

Contradictions of the UAW GM Strike

Contradictions of the UAW GM Strike The GM workers are on strike to end the...

The Big Lie: ‘Labor Shortage’!

The Big Lie: A ‘Labor Shortage’! Don’t Believe the Corporate “Labor Shortage” Bullsh*t   What’s really...

“Trade Secrets” Cancer and the Environment (What the Bill Moyers Program “Trade Secrets” Revealed)

“Trade Secrets” Cancer and the Environment(What the Bill Moyers Program Trade Secrets Revealed On March 26, 2001,...

Big Energy Frackers Keep on Fracking With Their Own Private Water Supplies During Drought!

Big Energy Frackers Keep on Fracking With Their Own Private Water Supplies During Drought More...

PG&E Ripoff: Return of the Robber Barons

PG&E Ripoff: Return of the Robber Barons According to Webster’s unabridged dictionary, a Robber Barons is: An...

My Efforts to Prevent Painters’ Occupation Cancer

My Efforts to Prevent Painters’ Occupation Cancer As painters, we contracted ourselves to work 40...

Legal/Extra-legal Terrorism Has Been a Tool of the United States 1% to  Subjugate Black People

Legal/Extra-legal Terrorism Has Been a Tool of the United States 1% to  Subjugate Black People...

Politics

Frontline The Power of the Fed

Last, I watched the Frontline Program, The Power of the Fed, When COVID-19 struck, the Federal...

Edictorial: Trickle Up and Trickle Down

Edictorial: Trickle Up and Trickle Down Trickle-down economics, or “trickle-down theory,” argues for income and capital...

Editorial: The Teachers Unions Have Been Acting Socially Now is to Begin to Act Politically in Opposition to the 1%’s Political Austerity Progam

Editorial: The Teachers Unions Have Been Acting Socially Now is the time to Begin to...

Editorial: Humanity Cannot Survive Under Capitalism!

Editorial: Humanity Cannot Survive Under Capitalism!Capitalism, in its epoch of decadent and moral decay, cannot...

Editorial: British Elections — Corbyn Victory:

Editorial: British Elections — Corbyn VictoryAs the Financial Times, gritting its teeth, commented: “Jeremy Corbyn has...

Big Oil Fracking California Big Energy Corporations, Politicians, and Water Do Mix!

Big Oil Fracking California Big Energy Corporations, Politicians, and Water Do Mix!Thirsty Oil Companies Need...

9-11 World Trade Center Dust Cloud: How Many Will Die?!

9-11 World Trade Center Dust Cloud: How Many Will Die?!The “dustification” and the implosion of the...

2017 State of the Nation

2017 State of the Nation by Roland SheppardLiberalism is dead, there is no longer any material...

Neoliberalism Has Led Us Down the Path to Fascism

Neoliberalism Has Led Us Down the Path to FascismAlan Woods clearly stated, the current political...

A Historic Document: A Bill of Rights for Working People

A Historic Document: A Bill of Rights for Working PeopleA Bill Of Rights For Working...

Under Capitalism — Human Lives Don’t Matter

Capitalism Does Not, and Never Has, Worked for the Masses! In Its Death Agony, Capitalism Is...

Editorial: Ecosocialism or Ecocide!!!!

Editorial: Ecosocialism or Ecocide!!!!Last month, scientists from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate wrote...

What’s Behind The Media Monopoly Facebook ‘Scandle’

Media MonopolyWhat’s Behind The Mdia Monopoly Facebook ‘Scandle’ The Capitalist Media Monoply control the free...

PG&E Robber Baron Redux

PG&E Robber Baron Redux July 2019 Update: California 99% Taxpayers to Pay For PG&E’s Deferred Maintenance (The 1%...

Earth Day Editorial: Survival of the Human Species is Now at Stake!

Earth Day Editorial: Survival of the Human Species is Now at Stake! In Its Death...

United States Coronavirus Pandemic Crisis: Lessons to be Learned

If You Want Pandemics, Build Factory Farms It should be made clear that the source of COVID-19...

The Historic Role of Police Brutality in the Black Community and African American Oppression

The Historic Role of Police Brutality in the Black Community and African American Oppression To...

Reparations and Capitalism

Reparations and Capitalism The World Conference on Racism held in Durban, South Africa, several years...

Greece Essays

Why Oil Companies Want California’s Water — All Fracked Up! Big Oil Fracking Our Environment— Fracking: Oil Shale Oil, Water and Politicians Do Mix

Why Oil Companies Want California’s Water  — All Fracked Up! Big Oil Fracking Our Environment—...

Today’s Cuba (1992)

Today’s Cuba (1992) (The general line of this resolution was adopted by majority vote at...

U.S. Crumbling Infrastructure

U.S. Crumbling Infrastructure Biden’s Bipartisan Budget Proposal is $5 Trillion Below What is Needed Due to...

The Trump electoral victory is Representative of the Constant Attack Upon the Working Class Since 1948 and The Default and the Treacherous Roll of the Trade Union Bureaucracy

The Trump electoral victory is Representative of the Constant Attack Upon the Working Class Since...

State of the Union November 2020

There are Five Factors Dominating the United Sates: Austerity/Pauperization, Racism, Erosion of the Bill of...

The Onging Saga Of The New Bay Bridge Eastern Span Or How Corpoate Greed, Corruption, and Corporate Government Deregulation Demonstrate The Decline Of The U.S. Empire

The Onging Saga Of The New Bay Bridge Eastern Span Or How Corpoate Greed, Corruption, and...

The Bernie Sanders Phenomenon

The Bernie Sanders Phenomenon by Roland Sheppard Both Historically and Presently, Bernie Sanders DOES NOT Qualify...

The American ‘Left’ has become ‘Reformist’ — It No Longer Espouses or Stands For the Principle of Working Class Independence!

The American ‘Left’ has become ‘Reformist’ — It No Longer Espouses or Stands For the...

Terrorism in Charlottesville, Va.: Racism, Explotation, and Terror Has Always Been an Integral Part of Capitalism

Terrorism in Charlottesville, Va.: Racism, Explotation, and Terror Has Always Been an Integral Part of...

Party congress backs Gorbachev’s ‘reforms’

Party congress backs Gorbachev’s ‘reforms’ by Roland Sheppard The recent conference of the Communist Party of...

Obama Left Trump the Power to Declare Martial Law!

Obama Left Trump the Power to Declare Martial Law! Is Martial Law Coming to the...

Time To Nationalize The “Privately owned ‘Public’ Utilities”!: Instead of Nationalizing Their Debts— Nationalize Their Assets!

Time To Nationalize The “Privately owned ‘Public’ Utilities”!: Instead of Nationalizing Their Debts— Nationalize Their Assets! Originally,...

Lessor Evil Results For 2009

Lessor Evil Results For 2009 The Rich Will Continue To Not Pay Taxes! Perpetual War...

The Bernie Sanders Phenomenon

The Bernie Sanders Phenomenon by Roland Sheppard Both Historically and Presently, Bernie Sanders DOES NOT Qualify...

My Prepared Speech at Nat Weinstein’s Memorial Meeting

My Prepared Speech at Nat Weinstein’s Memorial MeetingNat at ‘Two Gate’ SF Veterans Hospital Picket...

Editorial: Greece

Editorial: Greece There is nothing more demoralizing for the working class than to be sold...

Memorial Day

Memorial Day By Roland SheppardI Morn Those That Died — The 1% Sing Praises To The Spoils Of...

Let The People Vote on Healthcare!

Let The People Vote on Healthcare!U.S. Priorities One of the captions in the above cartoon...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Never Again!

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Never Again!  Hiroshima August 7, 1945The detonation of the atomic bomb at...

Editorial: Greece

Editorial: Greece There is nothing more demoralizing for the working class than to be sold...

Editorial: Syriza A Popular Front

Editorial: Syriza A Popular Front Together Against AusterityDuring the past weeks, the popular Greek political...

Frontline The Power of the Fed

Last, I watched the Frontline Program, The Power of the Fed, When COVID-19 struck, the Federal...

Big Oil Fracking California Big Energy Corporations, Politicians, and Water Do Mix!

Big Oil Fracking California Big Energy Corporations, Politicians, and Water Do Mix!Thirsty Oil Companies Need...

San Francisco Labor Council Says Yes to the Gentrification of Hunters Point

San Francisco Labor Council Says Yes to the Gentrification of Hunters Point: Labor Council Reports Taking...

The Myth of Kyoto

The Myth of Kyoto A worker walks home from a copper smelter in Karabash, Russia....

Human Society Stands At The Crossroads:Either Socialism Or The Destruction of Humanity

Human Society Stands At The Crossroads:Either Socialism Or The Destruction of Humanity People & Planet...

Another Global Warming Elephant in the Room: The Pentagon Military Industrial Complex!

Another Global Warming Elephant in the Room: The Pentagon Military Industrial Complex! By Roland Sheppard Where...

Cuba The Road Not Taken: The Other Cuban Revolution

Organic Farming — Cuba: “The Road Not Taken”: The Other Cuban Revolution University of Cienfeugos...

Obama’s Coup D’état — A Police State In Imerging

Obama’s Coup D’état — A Police State In Imerging Learning from history and the recent events in...

The State of the Union and the State of Capitalism

The State of the Union and the State of CapitalismThe 1% are getting richer —...

The Degeneration of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)

The Degeneration of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) Jack Barnes Longtime SWP ‘leader’ Socialist Workers Party’s...

Three Poems

On The Beach and Free! (Without My Prosthesis)

On The Beach and Free! (Without My Prosthesis)I went strolling on Stinson Beach today —...

Mill Valley Was Once a Pretty How Town

Mill Valley Was Once a Pretty How Town Miller Avenue looking Toward Downtown Mill Valley...

Grieving for My Mother

Grieving for My Mother My Mother, Elizabeth Hoedemaker Sheppard, Cutting The Cake At Her 98th...