Opinion

  • Building a stronger Occupy movement

    A debate about strategy and tactics is taking place in the Occupy movement, with significant consequences for the next phase of the struggle.

  • Discussing the way forward for Occupy

    Debates over a general strike call for May Day and the tactics of a recent protest in Oakland highlight some key questions facing the movement today.

  • The racism of Equality

    The Equality Forum's plans to honor Israel for its purported advancement of LGBT civil rights amounts to pinkwashing.

  • Of the rich, by the rich, for the rich

    Republicans and Democrats are both committed to defending the wealth and power of the elite. And why not? The parties' leaders are part of it.

  • Obama the populist?

    Barack Obama is portraying himself as a crusader against Wall Street on behalf of ordinary people--but you have to separate rhetoric from reality.

  • The subway's biggest rats

    A new report on the New York City subway system's finances shows how taxpayers got legally bilked out of billions by the banksters.

  • The Old Gray Lady ain't what she used to be

    My jaw dropped when I read an article by a New York Times editor that asked "Should the Times Be a Truth Vigilante?"

  • The right to protest in peril

    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt to criminalize protest is no exception in a society where the state is prepared to turn to repression.

  • NYC's deadly deal with Israeli apartheid

    One of the primary developers of weapons for the Israeli military is a partner in a planned research campus in New York.

  • A dream of education equality

    The occasion of a day to honor Dr. King is an annual opportunity to remind ourselves that equity in education--and elsewhere--is possible.

  • The Twilight Zone election

    The Republican primaries have been a putrid showcase for racism and reaction--but the best Democrats have to offer is they're not Republicans.

  • Socialism in one dynasty

    Several left organizations in the U.S. wrote glowing tributes to North Korea's Kim Jong-il--and that reveals a lot about their vision of socialism.

  • An appeal from Haymarket Books

    The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher of Haymarket Books and the International Socialist Review, is appealing for support.

  • What's in a newspaper name?

    An Oakland activist tries to make sense of the complaints that he's been getting from a certain East Bay newspaper.

  • Obama versus civil liberties

    The U.S. military can indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without trial--that's the latest of our "inalienable rights" sacrificed by the Democrat in the White House.

  • Occupying against Pittston Coal

    The 1989 strike at Pittston Coal saw miners occupy company property in a long--and ultimately victorious--struggle.

  • The Republican bigotry contest

    The Republican primaries are getting underway--in a race in which the candidates have gone out of their way to take the most extreme right-wing positions.

  • The year of revolt

    From the Middle East and North Africa to Europe and the U.S., a worldwide resistance took shape in 2011 that will go down in history.

  • Resistiendo Juan Crow en Alabama

    A pesar de los devastadores efectos de la racista ley anti-inmigrante de Alabama, los activistas muestran su determinación de organizar y resistir.

  • The myth of the "conservative revolution"

    The Tea Party's appropriation of the rhetoric and imagery of the American Revolution is especially infuriating.

  • Occupy and women's rights

    A debate has arisen within the Occupy movement about gender equality and how it relates to the interests of the 99 percent.

  • The real aims of British unions

    Now we know why Britain's public-sector unions held a general strike on November 29--because they hate mothers.

  • Why I got arrested at the Capitol

    If I had any doubts about getting arrested for protesting education cuts, the response of my students took care of them.

  • Keeping Occupy independent

    The Occupy movement could reinvent what is possible in U.S. politics--if it remains unattached to mainstream parties.

  • Frank Miller's comically bad rant

    It's difficult to decide where to begin picking apart graphic novelist Frank Miller's "argument" against Occupy.