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President Barack Obama

The thanks they get for voting for Barack Obama

Barack Obama's willingness to give ground to Republicans while kicking the Democrats' base in the teeth has come into particularly sharp focus.

It's not Plan B if you can't get it

Why is Barack Obama's Justice Department appealing a judge's order that would make the morning-after pill more accessible to all women?

Obama's false promises

Barack Obama has had more than four years to close Guantánamo--but it's taken a hunger strike by prisoners to get even another promise.

Picking his favorite billionaire

The president's nominee for commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker, is involved in a constellation of ugly bourgeois misdoings.

Holding the line for teachers

The leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union, now running for re-election, deserve credit for resisting the school reform juggernaut.

Targeting teachers in Portland

The Portland school board's contract offer to teachers is more about union-busting than providing students a quality education.

Legalizing exploitation

The president of Day Laborers United explains why he's fed up with the politicians' promises of "immigration reform."

Confronting the backlash

Activists are organizing to defend day laborers in New Jersey from harassment by anti-immigrant groups.

A new plunder of Native lands

The resistance to environmental destruction must be connected with the struggle to defend the rights and sovereignty of Native peoples.

Selling off Wounded Knee

The site of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890--land considered sacred by the Lakota tribe--just went up for sale.

More top articles of the week

What the U.S. wants in Syria

The U.S. and Israel have been reluctant to lend any concrete support to the rebels trying to overthrow the Assad regime.

Who they serve and protect

Michael Bloomberg's increasingly strange statements about stop-and-frisk rest on an assertion that cops are there to stop crime.

They owe women an apology

Breast cancer is no laughing matter--but that didn't stop the editors of CounterPunch from guffawing about Angelina Jolie.

The creators and the creation

A new book on Chávez's Venezuela casts light on the relationship between the radical president and the struggle from below.

Under indefinite occupation

France's parliament voted to extend military intervention in Mali, as the UN Security Council readies a policing force.

Socialism 2013 | Chicago | June 27-30

The February Revolution

The barbarism of war and the tyranny of Tsarist rule inspired the Russian working class to rebellion in February 1917.

Speaking with Karl Marx

In 1879, a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune sat down with the "cornerstone of modern socialism" for an interview.

Taking back Pride for Bradley Manning

LGBT veteran and whistleblower Bradley Manning belongs at the head of San Francisco's LGBT Pride parade.

We made MORE of an impact in the UFT

The opposition Movement of Rank and File Educators made advances in recent teachers union elections in New York City.

Which way for the WEA?

A Seattle educator looks at the urgent issues facing the teachers union as the corporate school "reform" campaign rolls on.

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A conversation with Richard Seymour

A catastrophe for 65 years

Palestinians in Gaza march to mark Nakba Day  (Joe Catron)

Every year, Palestinians mark Nakba Day on May 15 to commemorate the 1948 dispossession of the Palestinian people.

Double standards at Berkeley

UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau was quick to condemn a student senate vote calling for divestment from Israeli apartheid.

Leaving women with no options

Whatever the outcome of the trial of a Philadelphia doctor, the bigger crime is what women seeking abortions had to endure.

Attacked for addressing sexism

When she pointed out sexism at her campus, a University of Connecticut student became the target of abuse.

Taking on anti-abortion lies

Seattle Clinic Defense picketed a talk by a right-wing physician who aimed to spread lies about abortion and its impact.

In depth feature on Karl Marx and the Marxist Tradition

Here are some of SocialistWorker.org's expanded articles explaining the ideas of Karl marx and the Marxist tradition

Marx's theory of working-class revolution

Marx's view of the world is built around the centrality of the struggle between exploiter and exploited--ultimately over whether society will go forward or not.

Why Karl Marx was right

When mainstream economists start citing capitalism's greatest critic, you know the crisis of the free market is severe.

Can the working class unite?

For the working class to create a socialist society, it must achieve unity in its ranks--and that means championing all struggles against oppression.

Towards a revolutionary socialist party

An organized layer of workers with a shared consciousness of the necessity for socialism and how to achieve it has to be created.

The lies they tell about Lenin

Any honest look at the life of the Russian revolutionary Lenin quickly puts to rest the idea that he wanted an elite to seize power and impose socialism.

Marxism, feminism and women

Marxists must not minimize the degree of oppression faced by women inside the working class, but rather make a serious effort on every front to combat it.

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.

A step toward a union at Bethesda

Workers at Bethesda Lutheran Communities have successfully filed for a union election, despite intimidation from management.

Airlines cashing in on bankruptcy

What happens after bankruptcy? For multimillion-dollar airlines, it means mergers and profiting at workers' expense.

Only you can prevent fracking

An environmental artist is being threatened with fines and jail time for using Smokey the Bear in an anti-fracking campaign.

What's the problem with youth sports?

Youth sports are tragically lacking in the very quality that they are supposed to promote: good sportsmanship. But why?

Find out about the activities of the International Socialist Organization

Exerting U.S. power in Bolivia

The U.S. government's Cold War-era response to the 1952 Bolivian revolution has lessons for today.

Will Israeli bombs spark war?

Israeli air strikes hit their targets near Damascus

Israeli jets carried out assaults in Syria in early May with the full backing of the Obama administration.

ALEC is not OK

Hundreds of union members turned out to protest the American Legislative Exchange Council on May 2 in Oklahoma City.

Raleigh stands up to the cuts

A May Day demonstration in Raleigh brought out students and other activists to fight austerity and attacks on labor.

RGIII and Muhammad Ali

NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III recently spent an electrifying day at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky.

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Una desigualdad diseñada

El capitalismo está organizado para hacer más ricos a los súper-ricos. Pero, ¿hay una alternativa?

One injustice follows another

A victim of California's cruel "three strikes" law finally won his freedom--only to have another injustice heaped on him.

Taking sides on Harrington

The discussion continues about the late Michael Harrington and the relevance of his legacy for rebuilding the left today.

The real disability myth

An episode of This American Life repeated smears about government disability programs usually mouthed by right-wingers.

Russia: How the stage was set

This first installment in a series on the Russian Revolution explains the events and factors leading up to the 1917 uprising.

Memories of the Commune

A leader of the Paris Commune of 1871 describes the scenes of workers seizing power and creating a new order.

The poverty of Proudhon

In a short book critiquing an anarchist thinker, Marx clarified his understanding that there could be no individual or partial solution to exploitation.

Lowering a flag at Hampshire

A fake e-mail sent to the Hampshire College community raised issues about what the American flag means to international students.

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