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Leave a twig for the birds to perch on... don't let the capitalists do your thinking for you... if you are in the neighborhood, stop on in; the coffee is always hot and the cookie jar is full... looking forward to the day when the real decisions in America are made by working class families gathered around the kitchen table... new postings daily...Yours in the struggle...Alan L. Maki

Saturday, April 13, 2013

The Question of Socialism (and Beyond!) Is About to Open Up in These United States

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This is a really interesting, enlightening, thought-provoking and educational read; anyone who is open-minded would do well to read this...

New York Times beats the drums of war.

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Anti-communism is bringing warmongers out of the woodwork like termites doused with Chlordane. Leave it to the New York Times to do its ...

Canada's socialist New Democrats meeting in National Convention as they prepare to take national power.

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All eyes should be focused on Canada... The New Democratic Party's Socialist Caucus is doing a good job defending the "ownership qu...

Friday, April 12, 2013

What causes rising inequality?

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Rising Inequality: Transitory or Permanent? "... For male labor earnings, we ﬁnd that the entire increase in the cross-sectional inequa...

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The time has come to stop subsidizing casinos and start collecting revenue.

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The Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party is going to be raising taxes left and right to raise money to finance a gaggle of boon-doggles i...

Saturday, April 6, 2013

A snow-job.

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I just got back from the Annual Meeting of the Roseau Electric Co-operative up here in northern Minnesota. What a fiasco. Nothing but a sno...

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Alan Maki, Warroad, Minn. letters: U.S. needs a Full Employment Act

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http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/259722/ Published in the Grand Forks Herald. Published March 25, 2013, 05:15 AM ...

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World

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"...With the global economy in a protracted crisis, and workers around the world burdened by joblessness, debt and stagnant incomes, ...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Forest Lake, Minnesota charging parents $2,500.00 a year to send children to Kindergarten.

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Obama is talking about a pre-school program while parents in Forest Lake, Minnesota are forced to pay $2,500.00 a year to send their ...

Cyprus election results.

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Parties Votes % +/– Seats +/– Democratic Rally ( Conservative-Christian) 138,682 34.28% +3.76% 20 +2 Progressive Party of Working People ...

Monday, March 25, 2013

The reactionary nature of Keynesian economics.

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I had a lengthy discussion with a very liberal Minnesota State Senator this morning about my stating that there is nothing progressive ab...

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Alan Maki: United States; I have been involved in the peace, labor, civil rights, and environmental movements for over 30 years, and I am a socialist. I would encourage everyone to get involved in promoting the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which came into existence on December 10, 1948; we should strive to use the yearly anniversary of this document to popularize it. We need to struggle to create a more progressive, socially just society where all working people receive real living wages and have a voice at work, and in their communities. I have worked with casino workers across Minnesota who are trying to organize a union. I have worked with people in northern Minnesota struggling to save the Big Bog, the primary freshwater aquifer--- this bog is being mined for peat. In my spare time during the spring and fall you can find me fly fishing on the Dark River, a pristine designated trout stream;in the winter ice fishing on Lake-of-the-Woods. I look forward to hearing from you. Nothing human is alien to me.

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