
Founding statement of the Party for Socialism and Liberation
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This chapter discusses the Party for Socialism and Liberation's founding statement and highlights the global anti-war protests against U.S. imperialism and the Iraq war.
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What a really good note to end that on because that's some
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truth. Right? Yeah.
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You gotta, you
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gotta. Humor, radical joy and miso in the Miffy tones. Oh,
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I cannot wait. Liz. Thank you so much for taking time and
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being
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our first guest of summer session.
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For you. love you both so much. And I just want to offline at some point to hear about your trip, Amani. It looked amazing. Oh, yeah. I mean, happy 50th. Welcome. I'm now 60. What? Yeah, I'm 62. I'm old as
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hell. Rocking the 62. I love it.
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You know, you guys are in your 50s. I'm loving it. I'm in my 60s. You know, we're nailing it over here. We're crushing it. Yeah, Liz. Thank you
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so much. If you would like to talk to any of us, Liz, you're on Instagram and Twitter as Liz Winstead.
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I'm everywhere. Liz Winstead. If you want to follow my organization, we're at abortion front across all the platforms and listen to our podcast, I'm in Spicycles, wherever you pod. Wherever you pod.
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And if you want to keep track or track down, me and Jess. I'm at Angry Black Lady, Jess is at Hejimami, H-E And you should follow Rewire News Group on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Blue Sky, threads, just everywhere, everywhere you want to be. And on that note, what are we going to do, Jess? I'm
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going to see you on the tubes, folks.
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We'll see you on the tubes, folks.
We are in a period where the world’s poor and working people are waging heroic struggles against imperialist war and exploitation.
Millions of people poured into the streets in the last few years to prevent Bush and Cheney’s rush to war against Iraq, only to find that this imperialist war had the backing of both political parties of U.S. imperialism, of the big business media, of the corporations and the banks.
The protests were huge—the biggest anti-war demonstrations ever. The anti-war movement spanned the globe. It was an historic demonstration of unity by the people of all continents uniting against U.S. imperialism.
Yet the war machine pushed ahead. Today, tens of thousands of Iraqis are dead. Thousands of GIs, workers in uniform, have been killed or wounded, with more being sent to their deaths daily. Politicians of all stripes promise “endless war” — and it is only because of the fierce Iraqi resistance to the Pentagon occupation that has slowed, but not stopped, the plans for the next war for empire.
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