Socialist Action (US)

The monthly paper of Socialist Action, San Francisco, 1983–2018

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Socialist Action, Vol. 29, No. 2, February 2011 · scan p. 10 · Lucas Alan Dietsche · about 155 words

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Poems written under the Big Top of Dodge & Stanley correctional facilities.

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10 Socialist Action FEBRUARY 2011 mal standard for assuring tribal self-determination and implementing unfulfilled treaties. Indigenous self-determination and territorial sovereignty are integral and inextricable elements of a program for revolutionary, democratic change in the Americas. As Friedrich Engels observed more than a century ago, there is much for socialists to learn from indigenous peoples and their histories.

Native peoples in the Americas today are on the frontlines of struggle against corporate and state domination and exploitation, but on the margins at best of public attention. By offering ideological solidarity and concrete support to besieged indigenous communities, we might reduce their sense of isolation and in the process find invaluable allies for the international proletarian movement. n

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