A Homeland Security bus loaded with detainees leaves the Agriprocessors Inc. plant where ICE agents arrested more than 300 people in May 2008 (Mark Hirsch | Rapport)

Treated like cattle by ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on an Iowa slaughterhouse in the largest raid in the state's history.

The strikes of the sans-papiers

A growing movement of immigrant workers in France is challenging President Nicolas Sarkozy with strikes and occupations.

Television's buffoons and bigots

With few exceptions, white working-class people are presented on TV via the same stereotypes that pervade American culture.

When innocence doesn't seem to matter

The sister of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis explains why the courts aren't letting evidence of his innocence be heard.

Destroying the best of Britain

Britain's "New Labour" government is gutting one of the longstanding features of "communal decency"--the local post office.


Election 2008

Seeing the forest through the sleaze

If you look beyond the battles among the candidates, Election 2008 is bringing into focus a political shift to the left that runs deeper than the presidential campaign.

The beginning of her end?

A SocialistWorker.org columnist examines the conventional wisdom about the Democratic campaign during an election night that may have finished Hillary Clinton.

The myth of the reactionary working class

The "working class" and its much debated "bitterness" are at the forefront of the 2008 election, but with this has come a reprise of longstanding stereotypes.

Crisis in Myanmar

Washington's "humanitarian" hypocrisy

Whenever you hear a U.S. official criticize the Myanmar junta for failing to react to the cyclone tragedy, remember the shameful federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

Labor struggles

Rallying for the Freightliner Five

Supporters of the Freightliner Five rally in Cleveland, N.C. (SW)

Supporters of the Freightliner Five turned out in Cleveland, N.C. and other cities for actions to protest their illegal termination.

Jobs with Justice national conference

Hundreds of labor activists and organizers met in Providence, R.I., to discuss strategies for the movement.


War and antiwar

Making Iraq pay to be occupied

An Iraqi mother and her son sit amid the rubble

Prominent Democratic lawmakers are demanding that Iraqis pay for reconstructing their country from the damage inflicted by the U.S. occupation.

The deadly scramble for the world's oil

The growing global demand for energy is driving the world's military powers into confrontations to control the earth's dwindling resources.

Suicide epidemic under VA care

A recent class-action lawsuit has exposed the failure of the Veterans Administration to provide adequate mental health treatment to former soldiers.

National news

Philadelphia police rampage caught on tape

The brutality of Philadelphia police is on display for the world to see in a video showing a dozen officers descending on three African American men.

International news

Why is Berlusconi back in Italy?

The left suffered an unprecedented defeat in Italy's elections, allowing right-winger Silvio Berlusconi to take over for a third term as prime minister.

The U.S. and the making of Pakistan’s crisis

It's important to talk about U.S. involvement in Pakistan, because that explains a lot about why the country is the way it is today.

Labor news

A victory at Outback Steakhouse

Immigrant restaurant workers win their four-month fight against a manager's sexual harassment.

Activist News

May Day protest against cuts at SFSU

San Francisco State University students are linking the fight against state budget cuts with the struggle for immigrant rights.

Opinion

No humane way to kill

The debate about lethal injection and the death penalty won't be over as long as we have a government that is in the business of killing.

Rockefeller family fables

The media that praise a new generation of Rockefellers for promoting alternative energy are ignoring the cruel history of the robber-baron family.

History and traditions

Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Frederick Engels provides a materialist analysis of the rise of class society and, with it, the roots of women's oppression.

Independent of the political status quo

Without its own political party, leaders and political representatives, the working class will remain subordinated to the Republicans and Democrats.

Books and Entertainment

Iron Man seeks redemption

A movie based on a right-wing Marvel Comic book series makes a bitter critique of the war profiteers.

Readers' Views

Arrested over the Sean Bell verdict

Protesters block the Triborough Bridge to protest the not-guilty verdicts in the Sean Bell trial (Brian Jones | SW)

Two activists arrested at the May 7 protests over the not-guilty verdicts for the police who killed Sean Bell describe their experience.

Too hard on Reverend Wright

Highlighting Socialist Worker's disagreements with some of Wright's views seemed off point in your editorial.

Iron Man's pro-military message

The first 45 minutes of Iron Man were so horribly racist, sexist and pro-military that I nearly walked out.