Readers' Views

  • About 50 members and supporters UC staff workers stormed the offices of millionaire and UC Regent Richard Blum. January 28, 2009

  • A reminder of the need to safeguard the right to choose abortion came January 22 when a man drove his SUV into a Planned Parenthood clinic. January 28, 2009

  • As attacks on the Seattle LGBT community have escalated, young activists have begun making news with their energy and fresh ideas. January 23, 2009

  • Rising bills, fewer work hours | Ripped off by the Medicare system | Fighting for programs for youth | Harold Pinter’s truth | Turning a blind eye to Israel's destruction January 23, 2009

  • For knowing our rights and the law, we were ridiculed, manhandled, cuffed, tossed in cells and charged with disorderly conduct. January 21, 2009

  • Columnist Nicholas Kristof missed the memo that the economic crisis has exposed his neoliberal ideology as bankrupt. January 21, 2009

  • Students and community members in Pomona, Calif., recently organized against police checkpoints that unfairly target immigrants. January 16, 2009

  • I have worked in restaurants for seven years and have often been the victim of wage and benefit cuts. January 16, 2009

  • Secret ballots are red herring with EFCA | The oppression of the Quebecois | Time to tax New York's rich | Credit to the Germans who opposed Hitler | Marching for Gaza in Colorado January 16, 2009

  • New York City Labor Against the War joins millions around the world in condemning Israel's ongoing murder of Palestinians in Gaza. January 14, 2009

  • It is beyond dismaying that President-elect Barack Obama would choose CNN pundit Sanjay Gupta as the next surgeon general. January 14, 2009

  • On George Bush's last day in office, people will gather for a rally and march to the White House, with their footwear in hand. January 9, 2009

  • Abstinence-only programs continue to receive funding from the federal government, despite the fact that they're useless. January 9, 2009

  • Our job in the U.S. is to show solidarity for the Palestinian resistance and politically expose Zionism for its racist bankruptcy. January 8, 2009

  • For the first time since 1959, the state of New Hampshire has a prisoner on death row. January 8, 2009

  • Here in Philadelphia, we've seen a victory in the mini-movement that sprung up to organize against proposed budget cuts. December 19, 2008

  • It's going to be a lean Christmas in Wilmington, Ohio, for anyone connected to the shipping company DHL. December 17, 2008

  • The Republic Windows & Doors sit-in victory could turn into a clarion call for workers all over the U.S. December 17, 2008

  • Fighting the cuts in Tennessee | Thanks for the Republic sit-in coverage | Ron Carey's legacy | Quebec is not oppressed December 17, 2008

  • Local activists organized a spirited picket outside the Bank of America building in Baltimore to show solidarity with Republic workers in Chicago. December 12, 2008

  • The reasons for U.S. actions in the Congo can only be answered by looking at broader U.S. interests in the area. December 12, 2008

  • Chicago Campus Antiwar Network activists visited workers occupying the Republic Windows & Doors factory to show their solidarity. December 10, 2008

  • The notorious police torturer Jon Burge is finally being prosecuted for his crimes. But his victims remain in jail. December 10, 2008

  • A Providence company is trying to get millions in tax breaks for a development that will push residents out of their neighborhood. December 4, 2008

  • While election losses for Hugo Chávez’s party should not be dismissed, implying that there was a resurgence of the right may be misleading. December 4, 2008