Readers' Views I was 12 years old when the Exxon Valdez tanker hit the Bligh Reef in 1989, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil in to Prince William Sound.
July 4, 2008 Military recruiters not only visit campuses and hover around malls; they also descend on the prison population, which is disproportionately poor.
July 4, 2008 Why are the real criminals free? | Privilege at the Columbia Secondary School | UTLA dues vote a good thing | Democrats’ record on Indonesia | Making sense of "voter apathy"
July 4, 2008 Barack Obama blamed Black men for social ills, but failed to mention the way that the justice system disproportionately targets African Americans.
July 1, 2008 Don White was an international revolutionary with a giant and compassionate heart, as well as relentless conviction to struggle.
July 1, 2008 While Western governments talk tough about "respect for democracy" in Zimbabwe, they turn a blind eye to companies that do business with Mugabe's regime.
July 1, 2008 I've worked hard, been creative, gotten an education and even tried to start a business, but at every turn, I have found nothing but hassle and hardship.
June 27, 2008 Two excellent now-cancelled shows available on DVD are worth checking out for the way they explore class in America.
June 27, 2008 We need facts about health care costs | Wealth is behind KennedyCare | More ways they don’t count inflation | The National Open Antiwar Conference
June 27, 2008 In early June, Washington, D.C., police set up checkpoints throughout the working-class neighborhood of Trinidad, in the name of curbing violence.
June 24, 2008 People with addictions to drugs face especially harsh oppression under the capitalist system.
June 24, 2008 How they prey on Generation Debt | Does the movement scare away vets? | The battle in SEIU in context | Hollow words from Bush on Memorial Day | Why we should fight to impeach Bush
June 24, 2008 Some clarification is needed in discussing the ways in which government statistics minimize the inflation rate.
June 18, 2008 Disability theorists who waver about abortion when a fetus with a disability is involved do a disservice to women by helping to roll back the right to choose.
June 18, 2008 Whether or not individuals emulate the values of "traditional patriarchal marriages," the nuclear family endures because of its usefulness to the ruling class.
June 18, 2008 Members of far-right parties have been voted into local and state assemblies in several recent European elections.
June 16, 2008 It is interesting to note a couple aspects of the recent Indiana Jones film that are somewhat progressive.
June 16, 2008 When it comes to the global food crisis, the mainstream media tends to reinforce the misconception that not enough food is produced in the world.
June 16, 2008 The murder of Curtis Osborne | Mistaking tactics for principles | Kennedy's health care hypocrisy | Gay marriage and “conformity” | An anti-choice law that violates women
June 16, 2008 All in the Family provided a concentrated look at many of the changes taking place in society in the 1970s.
June 11, 2008 Anyone who has read about the case of Greg Wright has to admit that he was wrongly convicted, yet he has been given an execution date of September 9.
June 11, 2008 Stern is leading SEIU over a cliff | Socialist Worker should support Sheehan | Why did Clinton pander to racism? | Marriage is a patriarchal institution | A cheap shot at Ted Kennedy
June 11, 2008 There are some issues that are complicated in politics, but whether to support the right to same-sex marriage isn't one of them.
June 9, 2008 The Georgia death machine is back up and in operation after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection is not cruel and unusual punishment.
June 9, 2008 Support Al-Jazeera English | Revolutionary responsibilities | Give Iron Man its due | Archaeology has come a long way
June 9, 2008 It's absolutely absurd that the prison system is structured in such a way as to make people worse after they enter prison.
June 5, 2008 While we should unequivocally support the right to marry, many gay couples reject marriage as an option for all sorts of valid reasons.
June 5, 2008 Consciousness has changed a great deal in the U.S. thanks to the struggles of the civil rights movement, but racism still has a strong effect.
June 5, 2008 The left should stand unapologetically in support of the right to same-sex marriage, regardless of any critiques of the state, religion and monogamy.
May 30, 2008 Students and teachers in a couple cities have begun to take a stand against time-consuming and wasteful high-stakes testing.
May 30, 2008 It would be a mistake to equate a defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright from the media attack on him with agreement on questions like the roots of racism.
May 30, 2008 Teaching Simcox a lesson | Time for a new health care system | Bush rejected aid for New Orleans
May 30, 2008 My little brother has been forced to endure disgusting racism for months, and the white administration at his school has decided to do absolutely nothing.
May 28, 2008 It's important to respect people's mistrust of marriage, even while agreeing that the struggle for same-sex marriage rights is important.
May 28, 2008 A new study has found that biological diversity has declined by 30 percent in just the last 35 years.
May 28, 2008 The media take certain partial demographic facts and spin them into a false myth of dominant working-class racism.
May 28, 2008 Workers at the Kingsbridge Heights Rehabilitation Center in the Bronx have been on strike for three months, with no end in sight.
May 23, 2008 As more people are put in desperate situations, we can expect more tragedies, with the media and politicians blaming them on "broken families" and "bad parenting."
May 21, 2008 For the most part, television shows portray African Americans in one of two ways: you're either the Cosbys or a drug dealer.
May 21, 2008 Troy Davis' innocence matters | Using the police to stop ICE | One show worth watching | The privatization of our schools
May 21, 2008 An Ohio death row prisoner speaks out against the recent court ruling rejecting Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new trial.
May 16, 2008 Better to spend your money on a couple gallons of gas than on the movie Iron Man.
May 16, 2008 As a lifelong supporter of Stalinism and Stalin's Russia, Paul Robeson engaged in some ugly behavior that shouldn't be ignored.
May 16, 2008 “Workaholics” or forced to work? | Don't let the CNA off the hook | Reverend Wright is right | Racist working-class whites | Why is BPA still on the market?
May 15, 2008 Two activists arrested at the May 7 protests over the not-guilty verdicts for the police who killed Sean Bell describe their experience.
May 13, 2008 Highlighting Socialist Worker's disagreements with some of Wright's views seemed off point in your editorial.
May 13, 2008 The first 45 minutes of Iron Man were so horribly racist, sexist and pro-military that I nearly walked out.
May 13, 2008 Tribal lines do exist in Iraq | Will Obama be better? | Massachusetts school budgets slashed | Shutting down debate about racism | Who owns the airwaves?
May 12, 2008 As budgets get cut, libraries are often first on the chopping block, but it's difficult to assign monetary value to the invaluable social goods that libraries provide.
May 9, 2008 Ford is restoring company profitability on the backs of its current and future workers.
May 8, 2008 Gordon Brown's continuation of Blairite policies further eroded Labour's base of support and set the stage for the party's worst election showing in 40 years.
May 7, 2008 The dynamics of tribal connections are sometimes crucial to understanding power relations in places where state authority is weak.
May 7, 2008 A lawsuit brought by Latino and African-American building trades workers details a litany of racist practices.
May 6, 2008 A recent survey of Washington, D.C., students showed that 80 percent are "highly exposed" to gun violence.
May 6, 2008 Austin activists are mourning the death of Riad Hamad, a friend and ally in the struggle for Palestinian rights.
May 5, 2008 If Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed 10 percent cut in California's education budget goes through, LA schools alone will lose $450 million.
May 5, 2008 Discrimination in Providence | Time for us to take a break | Obama doesn't offer a solution | Don't stereotype Iraqis
April 25, 2008 Campus Antiwar Network activists and supporters debate a Socialist Worker editorial on strategy of the antiwar movement.
April 11, 2008 Home buying is out of reach | Defending lawyers in Pakistan | How U.S. rulers use Tibet
April 11, 2008 Oregon a new lottery. A winning "ticket" means you will be one of 10,000 people to qualify for a state health care program for the poor.
April 4, 2008 Hillary Clinton's "antiwar" message includes the racist assertion that the U.S. has given Iraqis "the precious gift of freedom."
April 4, 2008 John McCain's "second job" | Slashing teachers' jobs in Calif.
April 4, 2008 In my 13 years as a human rights activist, the moment that has impacted me the most was five years ago while protesting the Iraq war.
March 28, 2008 Candidates discover workers | Socialists should vote Obama | Exploiting King for business | Sexism isn't "yesterday's news"
March 28, 2008 When I raised a resolution calling for solidarity with the Freightliner Five at my membership meeting, it passed unanimously.
March 21, 2008 A recent study by the Williams Institute at UCLA shatters many of the myths in the U.S. about gay couples and wealth.
March 21, 2008 Leaving U.S. children behind | Left out of Black history, too
March 21, 2008 The Party of Democratic Socialism, now known as the Left Party, is starting to change the political landscape of the entire country.
March 14, 2008 Another congressional insult | Missing the mark on No Country
March 14, 2008 At a recent Socialist Worker sale in Oakland, Calif., I had an interesting conversation with a woman who was tabling for Hillary Clinton.
March 7, 2008 Two hotel workers in San Francisco talk about the rotten conditions they face at work.
March 7, 2008 Abortion without guilt or apologies | Poverty poisons kids' brains
March 7, 2008 From the perspective of living in Arizona, there is only one conclusion you can draw about the Ron Paul campaign and the people he is attracting.
February 22, 2008 An uproar at our clinic exposed the injustice in the health care system and the readiness of administrators to let patients die for the sake of profit.
February 22, 2008 What can the left achieve today? | The experience of abortion
February 22, 2008 At the University of Vermont, the student body has grown by 30 percent in five years, but the number of professors has grown half as fast.
February 15, 2008 Can broad left parties succeed? | Immigrants driven by desperation
February 15, 2008 The anti-immigrant politics of the Ron Paul campaign align it with Bush's "war on terror" and the Minuteman-like hate groups.
February 8, 2008 Abortion in the movies | What faces a pregnant teenager?
February 8, 2008 One of the Lucasville Five describes how he was railroaded onto death row for a crime he didn't commit.
February 1, 2008 A lack of choices on the ballot | False hopes and the Democrats | Life without parole is not cruel
February 1, 2008 : Marlene Martin Gov. Jon Corzine signed legislation in December 17, 2007 making New Jersey the fourteenth state without the death penalty.
January 25, 2008 Turned down for health care | What kind of "change?" | Media and the elections
January 25, 2008 The new Seattle schools superintendent has hired a New York-based consulting firm with a track record of supporting school privatization.
January 18, 2008 The truth about Chávez and RCTV | The impact of welfare "reform" | Tom Hayden's real message
January 18, 2008 A national treasurer of Iraq Veterans Against the War speaks out on the struggle against racism and war.
January 11, 2008 Distortions about Respect | Hidden toll of the Iraq war | Stop apologizing for Chávez
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