Cincinnati Socialists

“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.”

John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

Climate change is not a novel idea. The hypothesis that rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could be correlated to rising global temperatures was documented by scientists as far back as the 1930s. In 1965, Lyndon B Johnson was the first American president warned of climate change by scientists. As early as the late 1950s, the oil industry began to understand the impact of fossil fuels on climate; internal memos from Exxon in the late 70’s showed that the company was well aware that their products would have “dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.”

Cop Cities are not about “public safety.” They are paramilitary training facilities, constructed not to protect communities, but to prepare for war against them — especially Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. These are domestic counterinsurgency bases designed to train police in urban warfare, crowd control, and repression tactics. They exist to crush uprising, suppress ecological resistance, and neutralize future rebellions against a dying capitalist order.

Trump’s defunding of the US Department of Education (DOE) is an attack on the entire working class, especially those who require the aid programs that the DOE has been able to provide under previous administrations. Free quality public education should be made available to every child no matter their race, disability, or socioeconomic status.

Around the US, pro-Palestine students, organizers, and protesters are being arrested on trumped up immigration charges and other related offenses. From Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University in New York to Rumeysa Ozturk at Tufts University in Massachusetts, student after student, teacher after teacher continues to stand up for the people of Palestine in the face of repression by the bourgeois police state. These arrests are being carried out in broad daylight by non uniformed officers.