Readers' Views

  • There's a ways to go to reach LGBT equality, but we can get there if we stand up together. A good place to start is the National Equality March. August 27, 2009

  • Progressive educators should fight against the privatization of our schools and the kind of education models that promote "banking-style" education. August 27, 2009

  • On August 16, over 1,500 people took to the streets of Mumbai for the largest LGBT pride march in India's history. August 25, 2009

  • 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. August 25, 2009

  • 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? August 25, 2009

  • BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger has continued to ignore the demands of community activists and BART workers. August 18, 2009

  • About 1,000 people turned out to a town hall meeting called by Congressman Adam Schiff to discuss health care reform. August 18, 2009

  • If anti-imperialists intend to wait around for a resistance movement that agrees with us on every issue, we'll be waiting a long time. August 18, 2009

  • A SocialistWorker.org article contained incorrect information regarding Marriage Equality USA. August 13, 2009

  • What is keeping people homeless? A system that makes the natural right to and human necessity of adequate housing a reckless gamble for profit. August 12, 2009

  • The Matthew Shepard Act would empower the federal government to prosecute when states are unable or unwilling. August 12, 2009

  • Banks ripping off the poor | Can we feed the world organically? | Protests for health care reform | Racism is alive and well in the U.S. August 12, 2009

  • Activists gathered at the University of Massachusetts at Boston graduation to voice their opposition to commencement speaker John Kerry. August 5, 2009

  • Liberation is a self-activity | An incorrect comparison | Vanguards and state power | Prisoner education saves lives August 5, 2009

  • Socialists should refuse to sacrifice the independence of social movements in the interest of any politician's election. July 30, 2009

  • I was on the front lines of the peaceful protest when the Honduran military opened fire on the crowd, killing several and injuring 30 more. July 28, 2009

  • Despite its local status as a liberal haven, Cambridge is no exception to racism in America. July 28, 2009

  • In spite of the milestone we have made with the election of the first African American president, it is sad that we have to witness the 1,000th lethal injection. July 23, 2009

  • Employees for non-profits do the work that produces the funds that pay the CEOs--and are often paid even less than employees at for-profit corporations. July 23, 2009

  • Standing up to Fred Phelps | Twisting what socialism means | Helping universities be competitive | A government that stoops low July 23, 2009

  • Those of us fighting for liberation must never demand that people reject religious beliefs to join the battle against sexism and racism. July 21, 2009

  • We should be clear that the top-down strategies of most of the labor leadership in the U.S. have hit a dead end. July 21, 2009

  • In the spirit of charter school "reform," the college of education at the University of Toledo has appointed "business-oriented" Tom Brady as the school's dean. July 16, 2009

  • The trash is piling up in Toronto as sanitation workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, continue their walkout. July 16, 2009

  • The Venezuelan TV station Telesur has provided up-to-the-minute and on-the-ground reports of the coup in Honduras. July 16, 2009