National One major reason for Barack Obama's popularity is the belief that he's antiwar. But the men and women he's gathered around him as advisers are veteran war-makers.
July 2, 2008 : Alan Maass With his campaign moves since clinching the nomination, Barack Obama seems more and more like a car whose steering wheel is stuck in one direction.
June 27, 2008 : Rob Will A Texas prisoner describes the struggle against repression and the death penalty organized inside the belly of the beast.
June 25, 2008 : Candace Cohn New federal legislation on domestic surveillance sets back hard-fought free speech, civil rights and privacy protections--with bipartisan support.
June 24, 2008 : Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Barack Obama's Father's Day speech ignored the underlying and decades-old sources of the problems facing Black neighborhoods.
June 24, 2008 Two Illinois women describe how callous treatment by the health insurance industry wreaked havoc on their lives.
June 17, 2008 : Sabulal Vijayan An Indian worker talks about the brutal conditions he and his coworkers faced at the Signal shipyards in Mississippi--and the struggle they organized for justice.
June 16, 2008 : Michele Bollinger Hillary Clinton began her campaign as the "inevitable" candidate. The question of women's rights didn't come up until it became politically expedient.
June 13, 2008 : Nicole Colson Trying a 14-year-old as an adult will do nothing to stop other crimes like the one he committed--the murder of a fellow student who was gay.
June 12, 2008 By appeasing the Israeli and U.S. right at the AIPAC conference, Obama was signaling that he wouldn't change the course set by George Bush.
June 11, 2008 : Randy Childs Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget would force poor and working Californians to pay for nearly every penny of a $15.2 billion state shortfall.
June 10, 2008 : Helen Redmond Unlike most people, Ted Kennedy didn't have to worry for one minute that he wouldn't get the care he needed for his life-threatening cancer.
June 5, 2008 A law set to take effect in Oklahoma this November will force women to submit to an ultrasound before terminating a pregnancy.
June 3, 2008 : Steven Miller Behind the rhetoric about improving education, the goal of privatization is to undercut and destroy a system of public control over schools.
June 2, 2008 : Alan Bean Alvin Clay has dedicated his life to defending those accused of crimes, but vindictive federal officials are carrying out a campaign to bring him down.
June 2, 2008 Videos of a Wal-Mart managers’ meeting have provided a seldom-seen glimpse into how big corporations buy political power and influence.
May 30, 2008 : Michael Molina The worst damage to New Orleans schools came after Hurricane Katrina--inflicted by conservative ideologues and private education companies.
May 28, 2008 Four-year-old Isabella Griggs won the fight of her life when an insurance giant caved to pressure and agreed to cover necessary rehabilitative training.
May 26, 2008 : Sandy Boyer and Shaun Harkin Half a lifetime ago, Pol Brennan was a political prisoner of the British government in Northern Ireland. Today, he sits in a Texas immigration jail.
May 23, 2008 : Sherry Wolf Predictably, the right is angry about the California same-sex marriage decision. More alarming, though, is the evasive position of some on the left.
May 22, 2008 The California Supreme Court has opened the door to marriage equality for gays and lesbians in the biggest state in the country.
May 20, 2008 Fast-food giant Burger King was caught with its royal pants down when reports revealed the company was spying on farmworker rights activists.
May 16, 2008 : Helen Redmond The students arrested in the drug bust at San Diego State University could have their young lives damaged irrevocably.
May 16, 2008 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on an Iowa slaughterhouse in the largest raid in the state's history.
May 14, 2008 : Martina Correia The sister of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis explains why the courts aren't letting evidence of his innocence be heard.
May 14, 2008 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.
May 12, 2008 : Adam Turl 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.
May 9, 2008 : Kirstin Roberts An ingredient in most plastic baby bottles on the market may cause developmental disturbances--but the government isn't moving to ban it.
May 8, 2008 : Phil Gasper The Democratic presidential candidates say they will reduce crime by putting more police on the street. But the facts tell a different story.
May 7, 2008 : Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor While the acquittal of Sean Bell's police killers was greeted with pleas for calm, Jeremiah Wright was denounced from coast to coast as "racist" and "paranoid."
May 2, 2008 Outrage, disgust--and protest. That was the reaction of supporters of Sean Bell to the acquittal of three police officers who killed him in a hail of 50 bullets.
May 1, 2008 Sami Al-Arian is facing another extension of his incarceration--and has been forced to take desperate action in protest.
April 25, 2008 : Brian Jones I teach at an elementary school in East Harlem, where we recently learned that there are high levels of cancer-causing PCBs in our building.
April 25, 2008 After a seven-month halt on executions, death penalty opponents faced a setback when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection was constitutional.
April 25, 2008 In tomato fields in Florida, in a shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., in Los Angeles sweatshops, immigrant workers are enduring a form of modern-day slavery.
April 11, 2008 The country's largest corporation is trying to steal from a former employee who is now severely disabled.
April 4, 2008 Mumia Abu-Jamal suffered a setback in his struggle for justice when a federal court upheld his murder conviction and refused him a new trial.
April 4, 2008 PacifiCare's refusal to pay for his cancer treatment could have been the end of the story. Instead, Nick Colombo's brother was determined to fight.
April 4, 2008 José Luis Buenrostro-Gonzalez, 1992-2008 Police claim that 15-year-old José Luis Buenrostro-Gonzalez pointed a weapon at them. But eyewitnesses and his family tell a different story.
March 28, 2008 The Georgia Supreme Court isn't going to let the truth stop the state from executing an innocent man.
March 28, 2008 : Marlene Martin The number of Americans behind bars is equal to the combined populations of Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Pittsburgh.
March 21, 2008 Refusing to work in slave-like conditions, 100 immigrant guest workers from India walked out of a shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss.
March 21, 2008 Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's criticisms of the North American Free Trade Agreement make it seem like the U.S. is the biggest loser.
March 14, 2008 Health care in crisis: Health care reform has been at the center stage of the Democratic primaries. But both Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's proposals fall short.
March 7, 2008 Ralph Nader's critique of the Democrats remains true, but the political setting for the 2008 election is different from his previous campaigns.
March 7, 2008 The U.S. military has announced plans to shoot down a 5,000-pound spy satellite by firing a missile into space.
February 22, 2008 "Why?" was the question asked again and again last week in the wake of a deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University.
February 22, 2008 The debate about the torture of "war on terror" detainees was reopened when a White House spokesman asserted that waterboarding is legal.
February 15, 2008 : Lee Sustar The economic stimulus plan passed by Congress shafts the unemployed, the hungry and tax-paying undocumented immigrants.
February 15, 2008 The unidentified remains of at least six workers were recovered after an explosion at the Dixie Crystal sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Ga.
February 15, 2008 Millions voted on Super Tuesday with the hope that a Democratic president will end the war on Iraq. But the Democrats' history should give them pause.
February 8, 2008 George W. Bush's proposed budget for fiscal year 2009 is a perfect capstone to his administration's relentless service to the super-rich.
February 8, 2008 The U.S. Senate looks set to rubberstamp a Bush administration demand that its new spying powers be made permanent.
February 8, 2008 Abortion is harder to obtain for many women today than several decades ago, and support for the right to choose has declined.
February 8, 2008 More than 250 Massachusetts doctors issued an open letter warning against a "cure" that promotes the health--and wealth--of private insurers.
February 1, 2008 In another setback for the Bush administration's "terror" prosecutions, the Feds failed to win a life sentence for Jose Padilla.
February 1, 2008 The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights held its national conference with a weekend of education, debate and discussion.
February 1, 2008 Chicago activists are gearing up for a second round in their fight against deportations and the separation of families.
February 1, 2008 Race and racism have emerged at the heart of the Democratic presidential campaign. But they have always been beneath the surface of U.S. politics.
January 25, 2008 Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign electrified U.S. politics. But the prospects for an independent presidential challenge are very different this year.
January 25, 2008 : Jen Roesch Jamie Lynn Spears' statement that she was "shocked" she could become pregnant says a lot about the ignorance about sex forced on American teenagers.
January 25, 2008 : Donna Smith Donna Smith, a victim of the health care system featured in the film Sicko, talks to Socialist Worker about the struggle for health care rights for all.
January 25, 2008 Some 4,000 college students in Arizona have been denied in-state tuition because they didn't prove they were legal residents or U.S. citizens.
January 25, 2008 Would Hillary Clinton meet the expectations of many women that she will act on the issues that matter in their day-to-day lives?
January 18, 2008 Was Barack Obama robbed of victory in the New Hampshire primary by the racist fears of white voters? The evidence for this contention is thin.
January 18, 2008 In light of the tendency of some liberals to identify Bush's critics within the CIA as the "good guys," it's worth recalling the agency's real history.
January 18, 2008 The Chicago City Council approved a nearly $20 million settlement for four men who were tortured by police and railroaded onto death row.
January 18, 2008 Voters' desire to see political change has become the undisputed theme of Election 2008 following the strong surge of support for Barack Obama.
January 11, 2008 Supporting a candidate with right-wing views, even if he is against the war, is a disaster for anyone who wants to rebuild the left.
January 11, 2008 A bill that would criminalize dissent in frightening ways is working its way through Congress with virtually no opposition.
January 11, 2008 The super-rich are getting super-richer--while the rest of us struggle to get by. That's the reality that emerges from new government data tracking inequality.
January 11, 2008 A 17-year-old California woman died five days before Christmas after her parents' health insurance company denied her a life-saving liver transplant.
January 11, 2008 Obama's big win in Iowa: Voters' desire to see political change has become the undisputed theme of Election 2008 following the strong surge of support for Barack Obama.
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