Liberation News (Internationalist)

Liberation News (Internationalist) or usually just called Liberation News was first established in 1996 as a radio program on Free Radio Santa Cruz. Liberation News has since been transformed into a socialist / Luxembourgist print newspaper that appears irregularly as well as a regular online newsletter, edited by Steven Argue.

Steven Argue is a former leader of the socialist California Peace and Freedom Party. He split from that group citing opposition to their support for the capitalist Democratic Party (United States) and Green Party (United States) in local elections as well as differences on the issue of the UN in Iraq. Steven Argue said no to any kind of occupation of Iraq, putting forward the slogan “US Out, UN Stay Out”, while Peace and Freedom Party State Chair, Kevin Akin, argued that the issue was not so simple.

Liberation News describes itself as standing for “the liberation of humanity and a ravaged planet from the scourge of capitalism and its wars”. They explain the need for an alternative news source coming from the need to counter the propaganda of the mainstream corporate media.

Staunchly socialist the group rejects both the Democrat and Republican Parties as capitalist parties of war, racism, union busting, sexism, homophobia, environmental degradation and corporate exploitation. They instead seek to build a movement of revolutionary socialism as the working class alternative.

In explaining their opposition to the Democrats they state, “In contrast to the Democratic Party, including its most left wing, we stand in firm opposition to all US wars. We understand that the US wages wars for one reason: empire and arms sales that equal corporate profit. The working class interests we represent are those that do not want our sons and daughters to be sacrificed on the alter of war for corporate profit and who want our tax dollars to be spent on social programs at home. In addition we want the people of the world to live in freedom from the terror and exploitation of U.S. imperialism.”

To achieve these ends they call for a “socialist revolution in North America and the world to end the dictatorial power of the wealthy, for a redistribution of the wealth, and for a planned economy run to meet human and environmental needs.”

In addition to socialist revolution the group promotes the Trotskyist theories of Political Revolution and Permanent Revolution. While being in agreement with many Trotskyist-Leninist theories the group also agrees with Rosa Luxembourg's criticisms of Lenin and Trotsky on the question of the need to establish real workers democracy in a revolutionary socialist society.

External links

* [http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/liberation_news Liberation News (Internationalist)]
* [http://www.freakradio.org/ Free Radio Santa Cruz (FRSC) Official homepage]

References: Liberation News Articles

* [http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/77262.html Pro-War Hillary Clinton, What Are The Alternatives?]
* [http://www.freemumia.com/policecoercion.html Yet Another Witness Comes Forward and Refutes The Frame-Up Of Mumia Abu-Jamal!]
* [http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/1605582.php U.S. Troops Open Fire On Iraqi Protesters, Again]
* [http://trinicenter.com/cgi-bin/selfnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1018872795,254,.shtml U.S. Backed Coup Defeated In Venezuela!]
* [http://www.sbindymedia.org/newswire/display/3805/index.php Pro-War Diane Feinstein, What Are The Alternatives?]
* [http://www.okimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=297&condense_comments=false Bush Regime Maintains Power Through Electoral Fraud]
* [http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2005/07/the_letter_belo.html Emergency Protest, Stop U.N. Massacres In Haiti!]
* [http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/336679.shtml Women’s Rights Under Assault, Abortion Outlawed In South Dakota]
* [http://youngprogressives.tribe.net/thread/c112bbf9-ec02-458d-9aeb-64e77d60970e Homophobic Police Assault In Santa Cruz]
* [http://manifesto.tribe.net/thread/4a05addb-08f5-4da5-9d4c-7f41df62b14f On Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution]
* [http://people.tribe.net/steveargue2/blog/350b80f3-f04b-48af-9a0c-ec13bb70af76 Oakland Police Infiltrators Took Control Of Anti-War Group]
* [http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13092/index.php SEIU Rank and File Revolt]
* [http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/16652.php The million-dollar woman, Cuba refuses to hand over Assata Shakur]
* [http://www.free-voices.org/archives/issue13/stories/Stories.php?art=santacruz Armed Federal Agents Shut Down Free Radio Santa Cruz]
* [http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/m-fem/2003m03/msg00023.htm Resist The U.S. Invasion of Iraq!]
* [http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/m-fem/2003m04/msg00015.htm Is The Anti-War Movement Racist?]
* [http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2001/12/5085.shtml Green Party In Power Fails The Test In Santa Cruz, California]
* [http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13243/index.php On North Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam]
* [http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/13275/index.php Free Alaa Sarteel Khthee! U.S. Out of Iraq Now!]
* [http://projects.is.asu.edu/pipermail/hpn/2003-March/007283.html What Is Socialism, and Why We Oppose The Invasion of Iraq]
* [http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/12794/index.php EMPIRE OF OIL -- FOREVER? by Mumia Abu-Jamal]
* [http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/182062.php No to Angelides and Schwarzenegger! Yes to Janice Jordan!]
* [http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3666/i18/i18a11.html Protest Hits Schwarzenegger's Proposed Cuts In Services to the Elderly and Disabled]
* [http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8978/index.php Schwarzenegger and Democrats Gut Workers’ Compensation in California]
* [http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/m-fem/2003m04/msg00006.htm Santa Cruz Union Leaders Arrested Without Cause]
* [http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2003/07/412.shtml Nepal: Bush Supports Human Rights Violations]
* [http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/07/1629742.php A Closer Look At The “Anti-War” Candidates Of the Democrat Party]
* [http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3666/i17/i17a15.html Free Speech Fight in Santa Cruz]
* [http://thedagger.com/thedagger/anderson/argue.html Death Row Artist James P. Anderson -A Case Of Reasonable Doubt]
* [http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/17166.php GENERAL STRIKE AND WORKER’S INSURRECTION IN BOLIVIA]
* [http://www.aljazeerah.info/Letters%20to%20the%20Editor/2004%20letters/Jan/Letters%20to%20the%20Editor,%20January%2022,%202004.htm Longshoremen To Strike Against The War on March 20]
* [http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8132/index.php Santa Cruz Law Limiting Free Speech Ruled Unconstitutional]
* [http://www.iacboston.org/golive_pages/minnesota110101.html Ventura attacks the right to strike]
* [http://www.friheten.no/uriks/2001/11/indy.html Stopp USAs terrorbombing av Afghanistan! (in Norwegian)]
* [http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/13/18280591.php Trotskyism in America: The U.S. Workers Party of the 1930s]
* [http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/13/18320171.php PUK Puppet Government In Iraqi Kurdistan Murders Opposition]
* [http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/11/18319618.php Iraq Death Toll Reaches 655,000]
* [http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/02/18317331.php Cops brutally attack Human Rights Fest in uptown Charlotte, NC]
* [http://indybay.org/newsitems/2004/12/29/17119141.php The Israeli Slaughter at Sabra and Shatila]
* [http://indybay.org/newsitems/2004/10/28/17019311.php Liberation News 2004 Voter Recommendations]