Adam Marletta, Author at The West End News

A Win for Labor in “Trump Country”

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: March 18, 2018In: Cause Blog, Commentary, UncategorizedNo Comments

By Adam Marletta The successful teachers strike in West Virginia that resulted in a five percent pay increase for all of the state’s public workers is a major victory for the labor mo... Read more

Solidarity with Parkland Student Activists

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: March 05, 2018In: Commentary, UncategorizedNo Comments

By Adam Marletta The activism of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the wake of gunman Nikolas Cruz’s February 14 murder of 17 students is truly inspiring. Wa... Read more

Tilting at Russian Windmills

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: February 19, 2018In: Cause Blog, CommentaryNo Comments

By Adam Marletta If the left is serious about resisting not just Donald Trump, but the entire racist, misogynist, nativist, capitalist system that spawned him in the first place, then... Read more

… As the War Machine Keeps Turning

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: February 12, 2018In: Cause Blog, CommentaryNo Comments

By Adam Marletta The latest round of Congressional budget negotiations — which seem to have become a routine feature of the U.S. capitalist government — ended with both Republicans and Democ... Read more

The Perils of Ultra-Leftism

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: January 29, 2018In: Cause Blog, CommentaryNo Comments

By Adam Marletta Last weekend’s Women’s Marches, while nowhere near the size and magnitude of last year’s historic Women’s March on Washington which drew four million people, w... Read more

Notes From a S!#@hole Country

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: January 22, 2018In: Cause Blog, CommentaryNo Comments

By Adam Marletta One year into Donald Trump’s nightmarish presidency the United States government has shut down. It is, indeed, an ironic — and highly fitting —symbol to mark t... Read more

Let’s Bury the Myth: Black Voters ARE Feeling the Bern

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: January 07, 2018In: Commentary, UncategorizedNo Comments

By Adam Marletta It is time to bury the pernicious myth that African Americans do not support Bernie Sanders, and that their lack of support cost him the 2016 presidential primary. Liberal,... Read more

The Year in Resistance

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: January 01, 2018In: Commentary, UncategorizedNo Comments

By Adam Marletta The entry for Friday, December 29 in my Grumpy Cat 2017 office calendar reads, “This year is almost over? Finally.” It is, no doubt, a widely shared sentiment for a profound... Read more

In God We Rust: Musings on the Alabama Senate Election

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: December 19, 2017In: Commentary, UncategorizedNo Comments

By Adam Marletta Republican U.S. Senate candidate and alleged pedophile, Roy Moore, literally rode out of town on the horse he came in on after he lost the Alabama special election to Democr... Read more

Resist the GOP’s Tax Heist!

Posted By: Adam Marlettaon: December 13, 2017In: Commentary, UncategorizedNo Comments

By Adam Marletta Is the Republican Party actively trying to commit suicide? On the surface, this certainly seems to be the case. Last week, the U.S. Senate rushed through its version of a de... Read more

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