Joseph G. Kaye has participated in a variety of social justice organizations and causes for over half a century. His writings have appeared in Haiti Progress, The National Guardian, and numerous other periodicals over the years.

Currently, he is working on Elements of Dialectics for the Political Activist while continuing his daily focus on the history of African-Americans & the Centrality of Racism.

  • The Holocaust & Israel

    After the mounds of bones at Auschwitz, the incinerators and gas chambers, we understood those who said, “Never Again!“ We thought we understood. Except while saying, “Never Again!” they told the Palestinians they could not become citizens of the state called Israel, explaining to the world that the Jews, a chosen race of people, had…

  • Two Lines of Thought on the Middle East Peace Process

    The debate around the peace process essentially rages around two lines of thought. The first line, pragmatic, considers that it is basing itself on realities, very harsh and painful realities. They see that the US has won a huge victory in the Gulf War, that the war has had disastrous economic effects on the Palestinians,…

  • Racism as “Phenomenon” – Letter Excerpt, July 1989

    That the elaborate and all-pervasive system of racism has been vital to the economic and political well-being of the masters of society is a truism in all progressive sectors of society, among all left groupings. That racism is of such strategic importance that no democratic movement of any kind can generate the necessary power to…

  • Struggling Against Racism & Class Interests – Letter Excerpt, June 1989

    In discussing the question of racism, I think the emphasis shifts, depending upon the audience. When speaking to a predominantly white audience, it is necessary to stress that the struggle against racism is a key and indispensable aspect of the class struggle. Without the struggle against racism, one cannot pursue a class struggle, but rather…

  • Political Disenfranchisement – Letter Excerpt, March 1989

    Sometimes one can find truths in ruling class literature entirely missed by the Left, or at least a good portion of it. In this quarter’s issue of Foreign Policy, a prestigious think tank publication of the Establishment, Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine, the leading foreign policy publication in the United States, says…

  • Open Letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

    New York, New York – 1989 It is undoubtedly naive on my part to believe that members of such a highly responsible body as yours would take the time to read a letter from an individual, a foreign individual at that, who has no important organizational ties nor public reputation, one who, moreover, is presumptuous…

  • A Word About the Liberals – Letter Excerpt, October 1988

    A word about the liberals. WE need to wage an all-out ideological war against them. We need to expose every vacillation, every instance of cowardice, opportunism, etc. But this does not preclude entering into agreements with them around specific issues or actions. There are times when tangible benefits for the masses and better conditions for…

  • National Liberation and Class Struggle

    The success of national-liberation movements is intimately linked to its social content. The more the national revolution adopts a social program that embraces the burning needs of the masses, the more the masses become part of that movement, the stronger that movement, the more rapid its victory and the greater the assurance against national betrayal…

  • Excerpt from: “Iran Contragate” (1987)

    But the fact that the White House basement apparatus could have been created in spite of all the Congressional “reforms” instituted after the Watergate affair and designed to prevent just such things as occurred in Iran/Contragate proves conclusively, if proof were still needed, that only a powerful, organized popular movement can really stand in the…

  • Observations of the Movement

    The worst thing for people with our viewpoint to do is to act on an ad hoc basis, to merely respond to crises or opportunities, without having some plan, without being mindful of the strategic goals of the period and fitting one’s activities into that plan and subordinating one’s activities to those strategic goals. One…

  • Speech of an Imaginary Palestinian

    My name is _____. I am a Palestinian. I live in the village of ____ in the ___ part of Palestine now called Israel. It is funny that I say I live there. Actually, my family, my relatives, my friends – all the people of the village were driven out by the Israelis about fifteen…