The findings of the Workers Inquiry which we are posting for the first time have a direct bearing on the issues raised by the Voice referendum that seeks to strengthen the capitalist state and obscure the ruling-class agenda of war and austerity.
Mehring Books is pleased to announce the publication of <em>Marcus Garvey and the Reactionary Logic of Racialist Politics</em> by Lawrence Porter, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US).
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The documentary provides the media and political establishment’s version of the city of Detroit’s supposed “monumental climb out of bankruptcy [in 2013] toward a new era.”
Behind Donald Trump’s grant of clemency for corrupt former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
On his final day in office, President Donald Trump pardoned 74 people and commuted the sentences of 70 others. Among those to whom Trump granted clemency was Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit. Kilpatrick was serving the eighth year of a 28-year prison sentence the longest for a convicted public official in US history for two dozen crimes he committed while in office from 2002 to 2008.
Less than 24-hours after Trump commuted his sentence, Kilpatrick walked out of the Federal Corrections Institution in Oakdale, Louisiana. Although his sentence was reduced to one quarter of its original length, Kilpatrick’s conviction on March 11, 2013 after a six-month jury trial on racketeering, extortion, mail fraud, and tax evasion charges remains on the books.