SocialistWorker.org invites you to join us at Socialism 2009 conference in San Francisco on July 2-5--for three full days of political meetings, entertainment and discussion.
We'll be hosting a session featuring John Pilger, Rose Aguilar and Alan Maass on Media as a Weapon: Speaking Truth to Power (Saturday, 7 p.m., Women's Building auditorium). Please stay afterward to meet the SocialistWorker.org staff. For details, check out the Socialism 2009 Web site.
: Chris Williams New climate legislation relies on free-market solutions to preserve the environment, but the only thing it will preserve are corporate profits.
The military officers and right-wing forces who ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya have longstanding ties to the U.S. government.
: Lee Sustar Delegates at the UNITE HERE convention in Chicago plan to counter SEIU raids with greater union democracy and membership involvement.
An off-duty Chicago police officer whose senseless assault on a 5-foot-3, 115-pound woman was caught on security tape won't serve a day in jail.
SocialistWorker.org is asking our readers to help us send a reporter to Gaza in order to continue to get the word out about life under siege.
: Lee Sustar Is a radical change possible in Iran? Answering that question requires a look at Iranian history, politics and society beyond the disputed June 12 election.
: Alison McKenna Today is the day when a new fiscal year begins in Illinois--and the state government's "doomsday budget" could become a reality.
Striking union workers at Bell Helicopter and their supporters are walking the picket line in Fort Worth.
A lively picket in Chicago June 27 marked the expiration of another union agreement at AT&T, with 130,000 union members now working without a contract.
Join us at Socialism 2009 in San Francisco on July 2-5. We'll be hosting a session featuring John Pilger, David Barsamian and Rose Aguilar on the independent media (Saturday, 7 p.m., Women's Building).
In the name of finding "middle ground," Barack Obama and the Democrats are making compromises that the health care industry can be happy with.
Some of Barack Obama's most ardent supporters are unsettled by the administration's failure to pursue a bold agenda for reform.
: Jeremy Scahill Under the presidency of Barack Obama, the U.S. has already bombed Pakistan numerous times, using Predator drones.
: David Lloyd In the wake of Israel's Gaza onslaught earlier this year, a group of U.S. academics has called for the academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions.
: Phil Aliff The once-forgotten "good war" in Afghanistan now captures headlines daily as NATO forces face intensified fighting and further instability.
Two leading civil rights and immigrant rights activists have been charged with felonies in separate cases, and face possible prison time.
On a bright, warm afternoon, Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott finally walked out of a Texas jail after a judge ordered them released.
: Renee Collins I was horrified but not surprised by the deadly collision on the Red Line in Washington, D.C.--regular riders know it wasn't a question of if, but when.
More than 75 supporters of UE Local 1174 members at Quad City Die Casting in Iowa protested Wells Fargo Bank in Chicago.
Millions of people turned out in cities across the country in June for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pride celebrations.
The drive by California politicians to balance their budget on the backs of the most vulnerable continues to touch off dissent.
British antiwar activist George Galloway gave a rousing speech in Chicago to raise funds for an aid convoy from the U.S. to Gaza.
San Diego activists gathered in front of a CVS Pharmacy as part of a national campaign against the company's unethical and racist sales practices.
: Leonard Peltier One of America's longest-serving political prisoners reflects on his 34 years in prison, and his hopes for a better world.
Who will be the next to die because our cities spend money on sports stadiums instead of basic infrastructure?
: Mohammed Omer A Palestinian journalist describes the day he was detained, interrogated, strip-searched and tortured by Israel security forces--and what happened afterward.
: Ronnie Kasrils A leading figure in the South African freedom struggle draws comparisons between the former apartheid regime and the Israeli state today.
An attack on baseball star Sammy Sosa's supposed steroid use neglects to place any responsibility on the front office, ownership or management.
: Sherry Wolf Forty years ago, a police raid on a New York City gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, sparked nights of rioting--and the start of a new LGBT movement.
: Robert Meeropol A son remembers Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed at the height of the 1950s Red Scare for allegedly stealing atomic secrets.
: Alexander Billet Beginning at age of 11 with the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson's decades-long career played an important role in transforming the shape of music.
Liberal democrats and antiwar groups were exposed by their recent silence on the supplemental war funding bill.
I am running for the 10th District in California because the Democratic and Republican parties have shown themselves unwilling to address the issues that matter.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy took time out from waging war on the working class to set his sights on a favorite target: French Muslims.
Recent events in Iran, dubbed the "Twitter Revolution" by some, have been unprecedented in the way the Internet has been used.
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