National March in DC to Bring

Troops Home Now

Cleveland rally also on Saturday, March 20th

Protest to end the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and Occupations NOW! On the 7th Anniversary of the Iraq War, Rally and March, Saturday, March 20th, Noon, Market Square Park (across from West Side Market, corner of Lorain and W. 25th), Cleveland

National March to Bring the Troop Home Now! Washington DC, Saturday, March 20th - details - there are still a few seats on the bus from Cleveland to Washington D.C. [note - the bus will stop in Akron to and from D.C.] Saturday March 20th 2010 - price: $50 - depart Friday night, 11.30pm - return Sunday AM. There may also be a few scholarships left. Click here to reserve a seat. Sponsored by Northeast Ohio Antiwar Coallition (NOAC), 216-736-4716, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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California:

live updates from Socialist Worker

Today, students, teachers, faculty, campus workers and community members are making their voices heard--in California and around the country. They're taking a stand against the ongoing attack on public education at every level, from pre-K through to colleges and universities.

SocialistWorker.org readers will contribute their reports, views, pictures and more throughout the day, and will post them here--and at 5 p.m. (PST, 8 p.m. on the East Coast and 7 p.m. in the Midwest), we'll have a live video stream from the San Francisco regional rally against the cuts.

Keep checking back here for the latest news on the battle for our schools.

California State University - Fullerton, Occupation

updates:

6:22am: Cops have raided the occupation. Four have been detained while the rest of the occupiers remain held up and negotiating with the police.

6:51am: Police have released the four detained, the rest of the 15-18 people inside are now being talked to, but will also probably be released on the spot. A full update will be posted later.

7:35am: Correction to previous update: The barricades were secure, but service ladders inside the building extend to tunnels below the building and had not been secured. The police entered through there, detaining four of the occupiers almost immediately. The rest of the occupiers scattered elsewhere in the building. All were eventually cited and released. The barricades that had been placed were indeed dumpsters chained to the doors from the inside, some stacked on each other.

Read more on this libcom story here

Campuses across California explode in protest

Protests exploding across California, more protests around the nation - check out US Indymedia

For continuous updates and twitter feeds try LA Indymedia and Northcoast Indybay

For a list of the days events and planned protests check out this link on Socialist Worker

Strikes & Walkouts in Northern

California March 4th

The Global Organic Crisis:

Paradoxes, Dangers and Opportunities

by Stephen Gill

The capitalist world has experienced its deepest economic meltdown since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Paradoxically, whereas the earlier period saw the breakdown of liberal capitalism, the rise of fascism and Nazism, and the Soviet alternative to liberal capitalism, today neo-liberalism and capitalist globalization still remain powerful, and apparently supreme, on the stage of world history.  Despite the financial implosion on Wall Street and its "near-death experience," few coherent left programs have commanded sufficient political organization or popular support to mount a serious challenge to the G8's somnambulant political leaders and to pose credible alternatives to financial capitalism.

So, what arguments can progressive political forces use to begin to mobilize transformative resistance in ways that can give credibility to new forms of politics and society?  We start with the simple observation that appearances can be deceptive and indeed this is to be expected in the present politically paradoxical global conjuncture.  This conjuncture corresponds, in part, to the Chinese character for crisis, a character that combines moments of danger and opportunity.  It is linked to the fact that the current global political situation involves far more than a crisis of capitalist accumulation since it is pregnant with the following paradox:

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

Read the full article here.

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