What our society needs to learn from the Ray Rice scandal

  • September 17, 2014

“What our society needs to learn from the Ray Rice scandal” first appeared on PeoplesWorld.org on September 17, 2014. Read it on PeoplesWorld.org.

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808)

Last week, I wrote that a fading story surrounding the violent assault on Janay Palmer Rice by her then-fiancé and now husband, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, had gotten new legs.

What triggered this renewed attention was the public release of a new tape – a second tape – that shows Ray Rice knocking out Janay with two powerful blows to her face in the elevator of an Atlantic City casino hotel in February. The first tape had shown Ray Rice dragging her unconscious off the elevator, but not the actual assault.

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Ray Rice and his enablers: why men must speak out

  • September 9, 2014

“Ray Rice and his enablers: why men must speak out” first appeared on PeoplesWorld.org on September 9, 2014. Read it at PeoplesWorld.org.

On Sunday night, TMZ Sports released a new video showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking out Janay Rice, his then-fiancée and now his wife, on an elevator in a casino hotel. By Monday morning, sports networks and morning talk shows were abuzz, talking again about what is far too familiar in our national life – male violence against women – and the mishandling of this gruesome incident by National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell and the Ravens football team – not to mention the entire National Football League.

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“Bourgeois politics” and the mature left

  • August 5, 2014

“Bourgeois politics” and the mature left” first appeared on PeoplesWorld.org on August 5, 2014. Read it on PeoplesWorld.org.

Below is a section of the keynote to the Communist Party USA 30th National Convention, June 13-15, 2014, delivered on the convention’s opening day by outgoing National Chair Sam Webb. The newly elected national chair is John Bachtell, who previously served as Illinois organizer for the party.

This article discusses one of six challenges for the party and progressive movement. (See previous articles here, here and here.) We will feature other sections in the coming weeks.

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How do we get out of this mess?

  • July 25, 2014

“How do we get out of this mess?” first appeared on PeoplesWorld.org on July 25, 2014. Read it on PeoplesWorld.org.

Below is a section of the keynote to the Communist Party USA 30th National Convention, June 13-15, 2014, delivered on the convention’s opening day by outgoing National Chair Sam Webb. The newly elected national chair is John Bachtell, who previously served as Illinois organizer for the party.

This article discusses the second of six challenges for the party and progressive movement. (See previous articles here and here.) We will feature other keynote sections in the coming weeks.

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Communists in convention: What our mission is and isn’t

  • July 1, 2014

“Communists in convention: What our mission is and isn’t” first appeared on PeoplesWorld.org on July 1, 2014. Read it on PeoplesWorld.org.

Below is a section of the keynote to the Communist Party USA 30th National Convention, June 13-15, 2014. It was delivered on the convention’s opening day by outgoing National Chair Sam Webb. The newly elected national chair is John Bachtell, who previously served as Illinois organizer for the party. We will feature other sections of the keynote in the coming weeks. – Editors

Good afternoon everybody, and a special good afternoon to our international guests. Thank you so much for coming.

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