Tag: Money and Politics
On August 3, Alfonso Fanjul, Jr., passed away at the age of 89.
A New York Times obituary called Mr. Fanjul (aka “Alfy”) the “patriarch of a family that lost one of Cuba’s largest sugar businesses in the revolution of 1959 and fled to the...
Voters then, too, were faced with the choice of two corporate-backed candidates promoting regressive economic policies
In 1924, at least, there was a genuinely progressive third candidate, Robert La Follette
The 1924 U.S. election was not much better than 2024’s. In both cases, the Republican and Democratic Party candidates had deep...
The late El Haj Malik el-Shabazz, Minister Malcolm X, had always advised us about the ideological outlook of the “field Negro” in contradistinction to that of the “house Negro.”
The “field Negro” identified with and expressed solidarity with his co-slaves; he was progressive, militant and unapologetically wanted to destroy the...
