Readers’ View Slumdog extraterrestrial District 9's critique of the brutality meted out to the refugees certainly is relevant, as nearly 2 billion people worldwide are crowded into slums.
Readers’ View When workers run the state The state has existed to enforce the rule of an exploiting minority over an exploited majority, but what happens if the working class is in power?
Shaun Joseph What’s at stake in the fight against the coup? The popular struggle in Honduras is to defeat the coup makers, but the roots of the fight lie in 30 years of neoliberal policies pursued by the elite.
Julien Ball Police torture victim finally free After 28 years in prison serving time for a crime he always maintained he did not commit, Mark Clements has finally won his freedom.
Eric Seitz Justice denied for Peltier The government has denied parole for Native American activist Leonard Peltier--one of the country's longest-serving political prisoners.
Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf The idiocy of sex testing Eighteen-year-old Caster Semenya, a track and field star, is being subjected to a shameful circus of public scrutiny over questions about her sex.
Michele Showman Contract fight at Manhattan School of Music Some 150 recently unionized teachers face a fight for decent wages and health care at the Manhattan School of Music's Pre-college Division.
Interview: Anand Gopal The warlord election The outcome of Afghanistan's presidential elections will depend on deals Hamid Karzai made with some of the country's most notorious warlords.
Adam Turl An injury to one is an injury to all The Industrial Workers of the World based itself on the idea of industrial unionism--of organizing all workers together, regardless of skills, craft, sex, nationality or race.
Dennis Kosuth Profit and health care don’t mix A registered nurse describes how, by including insurance companies in the White House health care reform plan, Obama has included the main problem in the solution.
