Paul Phillips

LATEST ARTICLES ( 506 )

• Criticizing Israel Does Not Make You A White Supremacist!

  The ugly head that conflates the criticism of Israel’s actions towards the dislodged people of Palestine with anti-Semitism, has risen again. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Media Post: Why Flee El Salvador, and The French ‘Yellow Vests.”

  

  A short post today with two important video reports from The Guardian and The New York Times showing why Salvadoran migrants are leaving their homes to apply fo... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gramsci, Cultural Hegemony, and Why It’s So Vital for Our Liberation

  

  Antonio Gramsci is one of the most influential Marxist thinkers of the twentieth-century (born Jan. 23, 1891, Ales, Sardinia, Italy—died April 27, 1937, Rome). Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Expert on Venezuela Stand-off Says Attempted Aid Delivery: “It Was a Farce, and...

  

  Mark Weisbrot, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who advocates a negotiated end to the political crisis (said), ”The... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Maduro Critic Even Argues A U.S. Coup Attempt is Occurring in Venezuela

  A great Democracy Now! interview with a Caracas professor who, though being a Maduro critic, explains how U.S. aid is an attempt to incite the Venezuelan public... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gaza Medic Murder Investigation: STL Stands Against Israeli Crimes

  As in agreement with our far-leftist brothers, Sparking The Left supports the persecuted Palestinians in their battle against the occupying and murderous state... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Save Far Left Ideologies from the Trash Heap of History!

  Ancient Athens is revered as the birthplace of both democracy and all of Western civilization. During its democratic period of the 5th and 4th century B.C.... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Expanding the Mainstream Media Spectrum to the Far Left

  I watch and read a lot of mainstream news right now because that is what the public consumes. Now there are great leftist media sources out there I like to... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Yes, Ms. Burns, Let’s Tax the Hell Out of the Rich!

  The headline reads above an article from the leftist publication “In These Times”, published on February 8th, 2019, by Rebecca Burns, “Tax the Hell Out of the... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Slaves for Fashion “Prison-Made Brand Carcel Reimagines Fashion From The Inside...

  Brand CEO Veronica D’Souza on creating a ‘different ecosystem’ in fashion and the launch of a new Thai silk collection made in a maximum-security prison — Read... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• New Angle on STL

  I am aware that many users on FB and Twitter with our brand of politics are being deleted on a nearly arbitrary basis . Therefore, I will be uploading articles... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “AP Explains: Venezuela’s Humanitarian Aid Standoff”: Where’s the Sanctions Part?

  From the AP: https://apnews.com/6c66de0a22944b58b276d43eef91c093 The suffering of the Venezuelan people is heartbreaking. But: A) This is not a result of a... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Leftist Revolution: How to Run The Initial Days

  In my previous post, I expressed the opinion that a major mistake made by Communist nations, both past and present, is that they moved too fast to make radical... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Communism: Learning from the Past and Present

  As I have put forth in my previous posts, a socialist government is the best political system to be realized today in the interests of the 99%. Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Strong Moves Needed During Transition to Socialism

  In my previous post, I argued that a socialist system is the best form of government we can live under at this stage in history, and that we must smash the... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The New POV of Sparking The Left!

  Over the past few months, I have been publishing a podcast on working class issues. Yet I returned to Sparking The Left because the number of listens were very... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sparking The Left Is Back!!!

  Hello Everyone! Sparking The Left is back! It’s been over 3 years since our last post and we are going to start up again. Essays, commentary, etc., will be... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Sorry For The Absence

  

  Hello readers, We here at STL have been absent from blogging for quite some time (as you can tell) for various changes have occurred in our lives that have... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2015 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Social Protest Lit.: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  

  A quote from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Goethe was a German poet and natural philosopher, 1749-1832. This quote is an excerpt is from Book VI called “Martyrdom. Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2015 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Social Protest Lit.: Three Quotes On Revolt

  

  Today I have three short quotes for a social protest literature post. They all are an excerpt is from Book V called “Revolt.” This chapter pertains to “The... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2015 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY