: Lee Sustar The long war on unions is escalating in the public sector as the recession wipes out tax revenue and triggers deep budget cuts in states, large and small.
There are two wrong interpretations of the November 3 election results circulating in the political establishment and among its chatterers.
The streets of Philadelphia have been overrun by cars, bikers and pedestrians after SEPTA workers struck for a fair contract.
Workers at SK Hand Tools in Chicago prevailed in a strike that forced the company to restore health care and pensions.
Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a history of workers' struggle against the self-described Communist regimes of Eastern Europe.
: Sherry Wolf In contrast to the surge of pro-LGBT activism and legislative progress, Maine voters overturned equal marriage rights by a narrow margin.
The Democrats' proposal for a "public option" is so scaled back that it's barely public--and it can hardly be called much of an option.
: Elizabeth Schulte A study on female 'happiness' is being used to fuel claims--once again--that the women's movement of the 1960s and '70s made life worse for women.
However well-intentioned, a moralistic approach can have profound implications for how adherents of animal rights politics view human oppression.
Other species don't need political rights like the vote, but they absolutely deserve the ability to live out life according to their instincts.
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: Dave Zirin If Tuesday's elections reveal nothing else, it's that the time for swooning over photo ops is past. We need action, not words.
: Solomon Hughes The leading corporate lobbyist against a "public option" in the U.S. helped waste billions on "market reforms" of Britain's National Health Service.
: Petrino DiLeo Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms are looking forward to a bonus orgy for executives this year--supposedly for a job well done.
: Eric Ruder Afghanistan's election farce came to a laughable end when Hamid Karzai was declared the winner after his rival dropped out of a run-off vote.
: Martin Smith Tens of thousands of veterans are struggling to stay in school because of a bureaucratic snafu involving GI Bill education benefits.
Three Puerto Rican activists discuss the dynamics of the mass mobilization against the layoffs of more than 25,000 public-sector workers.
: Oscar Estrada With a deal that would restore Manuel Zelaya still in the balance, an opponent of the coup regime discusses the resistance's next move.
: Shaun Joseph A deal that is supposed to reinstate Manuel Zelaya as president forced concessions from the coup regime, but they were highly conditional.
Two labor and community activists in Mexico describe the fight for justice at an auto parts factory in the northern maquila zone.
Nearly 500 people rallied against the death penalty in Texas as the issue of wrongful convictions and state killing of innocent people has come center stage.
: Keith Rosenthal The pharmaceutical industry is already highly profitable, but this year, it's licking its lips at the prospect of producing vaccines for the swine flu.
About 150 workers and activists rallied October 28 in solidarity with workers in several Indianapolis hotels fighting for union recognition.
Candidates of a rank-and-file reform group in the Chicago Teachers Union won a vote for trustees of the teachers' pension fund.
: Mariano Silva New owners have shut down the Stella D'oro cookie factory in the Bronx where workers won an 11-month strike, but efforts to get full severance continue.
A group of 30 Michigan State University students and faculty picketed the state capitol October 30 to combat recent budget cuts and tuition hikes.
Some 400 activists marched in Portland for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender equal rights and to protest anti-gay violence.
University of North Texas activists marched to demand that same-sex couples be allowed to participate in the Homecoming Court.
Following the killing of Kiwane Carrington by a police officer, the Champaign, Ill., community has found ways to express its outrage.
Thirty years after he visited Pol Pot's Cambodia, John Pilger describes the holocaust he witnessed there.
: Malalai Joya A courageous Afghan opponent of the U.S. occupation of her country and the tyrants in power today makes the case that U.S. troops must be withdrawn now.
Building a stadium during a crisis to house a team that doesn't exist is bonkers. Selling it as a cure for the crisis is even worse.
: Adam Sanchez The Obama administration's so-called "Race to the Top" funds for schools will further the agenda of school "reform" and privatization.
There must be millions who managed to forget about Tony Blair for the last two years, and now this dreadful man might be ruling us again?
: John Green Despite the loss of thousands of teachers' jobs, the California Teachers Association has failed to put resources into organizing for action.
: Eamonn McCann The UK refuses to assert a women's right to choose in Northern Ireland, while advocating safer and more accessible abortions in far-flung places.
: Patrick Bond With a new international climate summit coming in December, the Obama White House is supporting legislation that will lock in catastrophe.
The regimes of Eastern Europe that collapsed 20 years after a series of mass rebellions were the opposite of what we mean by socialism.
: Ian Steinman Socialism is a system in which people democratically come together to determine how to structure our society so everyone can reach their real potential.
: Helen Redmond A new exhibit for the Day of the Dead at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago speaks to the experiences of immigrants in the U.S.
: Leela Yellesetty What sets Glee apart is that it understands high school is an alienating experience for countless kids, where gender and sexual norms are vigorously policed.
Forty years since Stonewall, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities have again had enough. It's time to throw down the glove.
The American people made history in electing Barack Obama--and they expected big reforms instead of the same old America Obama represents.
While I often agree with the criticisms made in articles at SocialistWorker.org, I think this is not the period for polemics.
Socialists can say more about the ties between people and animals, and can improve our dialogue with those who see animal cruelty as a motivating issue.
Animals are an oppressed group whose oppression is intertwined with capitalism. And they deserve our recognition of their rights.
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