Opinion

By shifting to the right on a range of issues, Obama is sending a signal to the ruling elite that he will be a loyal servant of their interests. July 18, 2008

The idea that Blacks need to focus on personal responsibility, echoed by Barack Obama, distracts from the question of social responsibility. July 18, 2008

Who needs evidence when you can identify suspects by the color of the skin? That seems to be the guiding principle of new rules for the FBI. July 17, 2008

The right-wing Sun newspaper in Britain has been exposed for fabricating stories that smear Muslims as hate-filled fanatics. July 16, 2008

Barack Obama is planning a visit to Iraq to help him "refine" the position on withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq that won him the Democratic nomination. July 15, 2008

The British military has created a wall of silence around its frequent resort to barbaric practices, including torture, and goes out of its way to avoid scrutiny. July 11, 2008

Since securing the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama has moved so far and fast to the right that even the Wall Street Journal approves. July 9, 2008

A closer look at a "small school" success story in New York City reveals the need for more staff, more funding and higher teachers' salaries. July 9, 2008

Returning to his home in Gaza from a trip to Britain, Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was seized by Israel's security services and brutalized. July 4, 2008

Corporate America is celebrating the Supreme Court decision in the Exxon Valdez case that shields the world's most profitable company against its victims. July 3, 2008

The federal government's never-ending persecution of Sami Al-Arian reached a new low when Al-Arian was charged with two counts of criminal contempt. July 2, 2008

Western oil companies are putting the finishing touches on contracts that would allow them to operate in Iraq for the first time in more than three decades. July 1, 2008

Muslims are alone as they watch the British government carry out repression against them that it would never attempt against those of other faiths. July 1, 2008

Hunger is on the rise, but rather than take any real action, the world's leaders can only think about making a profit off misery. June 26, 2008

There is nothing in Obama's record to suggest that he plans any radical departures from the mainstream of the American foreign policy establishment. June 18, 2008

George Bush ratcheted up the pressure on Iran with his announcement while in Britain that the European Union had agreed to a new round of sanctions. June 18, 2008

Barack Obama's motive in criticizing Black men as irresponsible was to appeal to conservative white voters by validating racist stereotypes. June 17, 2008

Half a century after the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional, they still exist--not on the fringe, but as the normal, accepted mode in U.S. schools. June 17, 2008

Understanding what Barack Obama would do as president isn't possible without understanding the essentially unchanged system of U.S. power. June 16, 2008

When war crimes like Haditha see the light of day, the myth of U.S. "success" in Iraq is exposed, as is the real face of occupation. June 10, 2008

According to the report of one think tank, there's a "lost generation" that despises mathematics because of the way it's taught in school. June 10, 2008

The reaction to former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's memoir speaks volumes about the crisis of the Republican Party. June 6, 2008

The Clintons were the key architects of a thinly veiled race-based campaign strategy that escalated as Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations disintegrated. June 5, 2008

For the world's governments, the priorities of the "war on terror" come before speaking out for Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma. June 4, 2008

The Republicans have gotten help from two hated opponents: Hillary and Bill Clinton have set out the most effective ways to attack Barack Obama. June 3, 2008

New reports show how British politicians pad their expense claims--but they're so out of touch, they don't understand why ordinary people are aghast. June 3, 2008

Obama offers a "new" and apparently progressive face for the Democrats, but he is as one with McCain in supporting America’s corporate oligarchs. June 2, 2008

If you look more closely at what the U.S. has done in Afghanistan, it's clear the rhetoric about upholding democracy is--as in Iraq--a smokescreen. May 28, 2008

A court case currently underway against antiwar activists in Belfast seems to show plainly that nothing makes any sense. May 26, 2008

The parallels between South Africa’s white minority regime and the apartheid state of Israel were striking as Israel celebrated its 60th anniversary. May 22, 2008

Barack Obama's success shows the American population has become more progressive, but it won't mean the end of racism and discrimination. May 21, 2008

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was designed to rerun the battles of the 1990s rather than face today's different political environment. May 20, 2008

The film War, Inc. tells us more about Iraq and U.S. politics than anything on offer from the media, with its 24/7 barrage of abuse of our intelligence. May 20, 2008

The excitement in the British football season wasn't found in the top-level Premier League, where teams almost always finish in order of how rich they are. May 19, 2008

Britain's "New Labour" government is gutting one of the longstanding features of "communal decency"--the local post office. May 14, 2008

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. May 13, 2008

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. May 13, 2008

A man who spent 14 years waiting to be Britain's prime minister doesn't seem to have any coherent reason for wanting the job. May 12, 2008

The media that praise a new generation of Rockefellers for promoting alternative energy are ignoring the cruel history of the robber-baron family. May 8, 2008

A SocialistWorker.org columnist examines the conventional wisdom about the Democratic campaign during an election night that may have finished Hillary Clinton. May 7, 2008

Barack Obama's decision to ditch his former pastor is part of a broader strategy of tilting right to appeal to supposedly conservative white voters. May 6, 2008

There was much more to the revolutionary year 1968 than the common appraisal today--that it was a frivolous episode involving a few hippies and students. May 5, 2008

A race for control of the planet's two polar regions is unfolding, with consequences that could hasten capitalism's destruction of the Earth. May 2, 2008

According to Judge Arthur Cooperman, the three New York City police officers who killed Sean Bell weren't guilty of anything. May 2, 2008

With the wholesale renovation of our Web site, Socialist Worker is entering a new era. May 1, 2008

The world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent--Latin America. May 1, 2008

The energy wasted on campaign nonsense should lead us to ask the question the media avoid: Who are the candidates actually in touch with? April 25, 2008

Ordinary people, whether they live in Pennsylvania or not, have many reasons to be bitter about the condition of their lives and the world. April 25, 2008

His history as a radical antiwar activist is the real heart of the "Are you now or have you ever been a dinner guest of Bill Ayers?" attack. April 25, 2008

For the 3 billion people who survive on less than $2 a day, the upward spiral in food prices has meant a struggle for the most basic of human rights. April 11, 2008

John McCain is proposing warmed-over supply-side economics--and there's less to the Democrats' criticisms of business than meets the eye. April 11, 2008

Whoever the Democratic nominee is will take a huge fundraising and business endorsement advantage into the November election. April 11, 2008

The crackup of the storied Wall Street firm Bear Stearns has provided an object lesson in the double standards of American capitalism. April 4, 2008

Despite the presence of hundreds of antiwar veterans telling their story, the U.S. corporate media chose to ignore Winter Soldier. April 4, 2008

The crackup of Bear Stearns ended with a bailout for Wall Street. But millions of homeowners will pay for the crisis Wall Street made. March 28, 2008

Barack Obama's speech has put the issue of racism back in the center of mainstream U.S. politics for the first time in decades. March 28, 2008

If Rev. Jeremiah Wright used angry rhetoric, perhaps it's because there's still a lot in American society to be angry about. March 28, 2008

The priority of government is to defend the interests of the rich and powerful in society, and that is why corruption and hypocrisy is endemic. March 21, 2008

The halls of Congress are filling up again with proposed legislation that scapegoats immigrants. March 21, 2008

A specter is haunting the Democrats in 2008--the specter of the party's 1968 convention. At least that's how some pundits are putting it. March 14, 2008

ExxonMobil's management team has cornered the market on corporate corruption while paying a minimum in compensation to its many victims. March 14, 2008

The media and political establishment are reselling the Iraq war, but a majority of people still want to see U.S. troops out. March 14, 2008

The "greatest democracy on Earth" undertook a secret operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of the Palestinians. March 14, 2008

Despite Hillary Clinton's March 4 wins, it's better-than-even money that her presidential bid is lost. But the same can't be said for Clintonism. March 7, 2008

The Bush administration's calls for Turkey to end its incursion into northern Iraq show the contradiction facing Washington in the region. March 7, 2008

Suddenly, the two Democrats vying for the party's presidential nomination are talking like hardened class warriors. February 22, 2008

Just because an organization has "democratic" in its name doesn't mean it functions according to the barest concepts of democracy. February 22, 2008

Over the coming couple months, Socialist Worker has some major changes planned for our paper and our Internet editions. February 22, 2008

Barack Obama has tapped into mass discontent with the status quo and the desire for a genuine and fundamental alternative. February 15, 2008

If current projections hold, 2008 has the potential of being equivalent for the Democrats what 1980 was for the Republicans. February 8, 2008

George Bush claims that the U.S. has never been doing better in Iraq. But the view is very different among Iraqis. February 8, 2008

With the vote so close between Clinton and Obama, attention is finally being paid to the Democratic Party's superdelegates. February 8, 2008

The media guesswork about what will happen on Super Tuesday hides the bigger picture--what Election 2008 so far says about U.S. politics. February 1, 2008

The dueling of the candidates masks the awkward truth that the two Democratic frontrunners agree on much more than they disagree on. January 25, 2008

A collection of liberal antiwar groups has retreated from a campaign to get Congress to cut funding for the U.S. war on Iraq. January 25, 2008

The U.S. war on Iraq is grinding on--and yet the antiwar movement seems to have ground to a halt. January 18, 2008

Some writers on the left are sliding down the slippery slope of single-issue voting in their support for right-wing Republican Ron Paul. January 18, 2008

The image of George Bush as a peacemaker that was promoted in the media has little to do with the real purpose of his Middle East trip. January 18, 2008

After all the optimism that followed its 2006 election win, the new Democratic-controlled Congress failed to block the Bush agenda in any way. January 11, 2008

When you look beyond his inspirational rhetoric and profile as a candidate of "change," what does Barack Obama actually stand for? January 11, 2008