GMO

Protests Shut Down Monsanto in Davis CA

March 17, 2012
By

A coalition of activist organizations demonstrating at the Monsanto office in Davis CA. successfully caused a shutdown of the multinational chemical and biotech company offices there on on Saturday, March 16. The shutdown took place on the first day of a planned weekend of activities in Davis, intended to spotlight and oppose the activities...

Read more »

Eight Ways Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture

February 7, 2012
By

Monsanto Company is the dominant player in commercial genetically engineered (GE) crops, the biggest seed company in the world, and—to hear them tell it—a leader and innovator in sustainable agriculture. Monsanto aggressively touts its technology as vital to achieving laudable goals such as ensuring adequate food production, responding to the challenge of global warming,...

Read more »

Pushing back against Gates propaganda – Genetically Engineered Crops Will Not Feed The World

January 28, 2012
By

It is increasingly understood that poverty, inadequate access to land and food, and unfair trade policies are the major causes of hunger in the world, rather than absolute shortage of food.  Additional factors contributing to food insecurity include declining investments in infrastructure (storage facilities, roads to markets) and increased diversion of food crops for...

Read more »

Study raises new concerns about safety of genetically modified food

January 13, 2012
By

A study at Nanjing University in China found that ingested “microRNA” (very small pieces of ribonucleic acid, or RNA) from plants were able to survive digestion and influence the function of human cells. Food columnist Ari Levaux has a piece digging into the implications, in The Atlantic. The basic idea: if this research stands...

Read more »


Marxism -- Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition

"We have always distinguished the social kernel from the political form of bourgeois democracy; we have always revealed the hard kernel of social inequality and lack of freedom hidden under the sweet shell of formal equality and freedom – not in order to reject the latter but to spur the working class into not being satisfied with the shell, but rather, by conquering political power, to create a socialist democracy to replace bourgeois democracy – not to eliminate democracy altogether."

"But socialist democracy is not something which begins only in the promised land, after the foundations of socialist economy are created; it does not come as some sort of Christmas present for the worthy people who, in the interim, have loyally supported a handful of socialist dictators. Socialist democracy begins simultaneously with the beginnings of the destruction of class rule and of the construction of socialism. It begins at the very moment of the seizure of power by the socialist party. It is the same thing as the dictatorship of the proletariat. Yes, dictatorship! "

"But this dictatorship consists in the manner of applying democracy, not in its elimination, but in energetic, resolute attacks upon the well-entrenched rights and economic relationships of bourgeois society, without which a socialist transformation cannot be accomplished. But this dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class – that is, it must proceed step by step out of the active participation of the masses; it must be under their direct influence, subjected to the control of complete public activity; it must arise out of the growing political training of the mass of the people."


Rosa Luxemburg