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President Obama delivers his State of the Union address

Obama the populist?

Barack Obama is portraying himself as a crusader against Wall Street on behalf of ordinary people--but you have to separate rhetoric from reality.

A cold-blooded creature

Newt Gingrich and his toxic brew of bigotry and reaction are back in the limelight--and his South Carolina victory says a lot about U.S. mainstream politics.

Standing up to Indiana's attack

Thousands of workers have mobilized again and again to challenge an anti-labor bill pending in Indiana's legislature.

Ready to protest Brown's cuts

California Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing harsh budget cuts, but activists are preparing to resist a new round of attacks.

Occupy Wall Street West

A day of action for "Occupy Wall Street West" shows the resilience of the Occupy movement in the face of repression.

A system of organized violence

The threat--and use--of violence, has always been a crucial way in which states promote the economic interests of their rulers.

Other top articles of the week

Witness to ethnic cleansing

A delegation of U.S. academics traveled to Palestine last year to learn about the challenges of education under Israeli occupation.

A decade of kids left behind

The No Child Left Behind law ushered in a new era in our schools—an era of high-stakes testing, school closures and attacks on teachers’ unions.

Closing the classroom door

Tucson schools are shutting down Mexican-American Studies classes after threats from state officials--but students are stepping up their protests.

Power and wealth to the people

Egyptians fill Tahrir Square July 8 in protest against the military's threats against protesters (Lorenz Khazaleh)

Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists describe the challenges ahead as the Egyptian revolution begins its second year.

In defense of Egypt's revolution

An international campaign has been launched to oppose acts repression in Egypt and to stand with the Egyptian people.

A freedom ride for immigrants

For two weeks in the fall of 2003, activists from across the country boarded buses in a demonstration for immigrant workers' rights.

¿Obama, el populista?

Escuchando a Barack Obama en estos días, pareciera que él fuera un paladín del pueblo contra Wall Street--pero al separar la paja del trigo en lo que dice, otra realidad se sobrepone.

Support Our Friends

Appeal from Haymarket

The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher of Haymarket Books and the International Socialist Review, is appealing for support.

ILWU's stand in Longview

A struggle that will shape the future for dockworkers around the world is coming to a head at the Port of Longview in Washington.

Mill strikers hold out

Striking Teamsters Local 657 members at the C.H. Guenther & Sons flour mill in San Antonio, Texas, are seeking support.

Find out about the activities of the International Socialist Organization

Emanuel gets his clampdown

Protesters crowd City Hall as the Chicago City Council votes for repression (Brit Schulte | SW)

The Chicago City Council passed Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposals to give police new powers to criminalize protest.

The right to protest in peril

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt to criminalize protest is no exception in a society where the state is prepared to turn to repression.

The United States of Islamophobia

Muslims in the U.S. are facing a sustained assault on their most basic rights--and it has had significant social and economic consequences.

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International Socialist Review

Latino Immigrants and the Labor Movement | Author and Democracy Now! cohost Juan Gonzalez talks to Anthony Arnove about the upsurge of the immigrant rights movement in the past decade. Read more at ISReview.org.

Facing a nightmare every day

A Bangladeshi immigrant is finally out of a New Jersey detention center and back with his family, thanks to an activist campaign.

Students marching to defend public education on the March 4 2010 national day of action

In this three-part series, Leela Yellesetty looks at what Marxists have said about the vision of socialism--and what past struggles tell us about getting there.

A crying need for change

Capitalism has no answers for the vast majority of people who don't enjoy its tremendous wealth. But what would an alternative look like?

Workers power in action

The best way to see the potential of a future society is to look at the mass movements of the past that have shaken capitalism.

Dreaming of our future

Imagine growing up in a world where you've never known war or poverty or exploitation, and where people's needs, not profits, have always come first.

The Marx Matters Collection

Marx Matters: Articles on the Marxist tradition from SocialistWorker.org

SocialistWorker.org has collected our articles about Marxism and the Marxist tradition on one page. Take a look to learn more about the ideas of revolutionary socialism.

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Pennsylvania tortures Mumia Abu-Jamal

Wrongfully convicted political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is facing inhumane conditions in a Pennsylvania prison.

The fall of a football god

How could Penn State's Joe Paterno, known far and wide as a man of moral integrity, have been content with silence?

Litmus test for democracy

A Thai dissident looks at the failure of the Peua Thai Party to deliver on its promises of pro-democracy reforms.

Experimenting on Guatemalans

In a sickening echo of the infamous Tuskegee study, U.S. doctors injected unsuspecting Guatemalans with syphilis.

Canadian labor at a crossroads?

A lockout at an Ontario locomotive factory owned by U.S.-based Caterpillar is putting Canadian unions to the test.

Journalism and occupation

Journalists should go where the silences are. In Kashmir, that means reporting on the Indian military's human rights violations.

Who shaped the struggle?

The real history of the Irish hunger strikers in 1981 isn't about a few political figures, but masses of people moved to act.

Is the ruling class too strong?

History provides several examples that show how, even in the face of immense repression, workers' revolution is possible.

Hope and the Hunger Games

The Hunger Games trilogy

Suzanne Collins' wildly popular trilogy of novels The Hunger Games is young adult fiction for the 99 percent.

Nuestra Opinión

Un asalto al derecho a protestar

La criminalización de la protesta--por parte del alcalde de Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, y del Concejo Municipal--no es una excepción en una sociedad donde el Estado está siempre listo a reprimir.

The biggest subway rats

Working on a subway platform in New York City (Jean-Pierre Martineau)

A new report on the New York City subway system's finances shows how taxpayers got legally bilked out of billions by the banksters.

The solidarity we need to build

The solidarity movement with longshore workers has been unnecessarily fractured as a shipping giant prepares to move grain from a scab terminal.

The Old Gray Lazy

My jaw dropped when I read an article by a New York Times editor that asked "Should the Times Be a Truth Vigilante?"

A law to censor the Internet

Major corporations have teamed up with politicians to push for a law that would place new restrictions on the Internet.

A campaign by and for the rich

There are many things the 99 percent can do to affect this corrupt society, but very few of them center around the ballot box.

Building an electoral alternative

It makes no sense to shy away from challenging corporate power in the electoral arena, while calling for such challenges in other ways.

Democrats and censorship

Sen. Dick Durbin, who has taken millions from the entertainment industry, is a cosponsor of legislation to restrict Internet freedom.

Don't give ILWU officials a pass

A SocialistWorker.org article about the controversy following a Seattle labor solidarity meeting missed the mark.

How to take Occupy forward

Occupy has diagnosed the ailments of the American political system, but it hasn't yet prescribed any cures.

They have money for repression

The same mayor and city council pushing austerity on Chicagoans are also planning to prevent people from speaking out.