Joe Sims

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joe Sims

• Culture

  

  Getting it right on Hampton, the Panthers, and ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’

  March 2, 2021 By Joe Sims

  Joe Sims makes the case that a recent People's World film review missed the mark on some important historical details.

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• Opinion

  

  Turning point in freedom road

  February 3, 2021 By Joe Sims

  It’s hard to overstate the importance of last Wednesday’s Inauguration. Trump’s gone, the coup was averted, and democracy prevailed.

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• Opinion

  

  Post-Trump: The struggle ahead

  December 14, 2020 By Joe Sims

  With Trump’s defeat, the country stands on the threshold of a new political period.

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• Opinion

  

  Why we need the Communist Party USA

  December 7, 2020 By Joe Sims

  It’s our job to continually connect these issues to the socialist goal, to the fight to overcome the vast power of capital—that’s the “plus” Communists add.

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• Politics

  

  Combat capitalist ‘truth decay’ with publicly-funded news media

  November 18, 2020 By Joe Sims

  In the face of “we-have-our-own-facts” GOP propaganda, social practice—that is, news reporting and analysis allied with real people’s experiences—must become the basis of social truth.

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• Politics

  

  Trump isn’t quitting and neither can we

  November 12, 2020 By Joe Sims

  The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters.

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• Opinion

  

  Even if Biden wins, the left must keep up pressure from below

  October 21, 2020 By Joe Sims

  What’s more important than an individual’s view are the relative strength and organization of the class and people’s forces surrounding them.

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• Opinion

  

  We know what we have to do: #VoteAgainst Fascism and dump Trump

  October 1, 2020 By Joe Sims

  The first step is to #VoteAgainstFascism in November.

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