Readers' Views 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 An LGBT-union alliance | Marriage shouldn't determine our rights | What is the U.S. doing in Congo? | Secrecy needed for Employee Free Choice
December 4, 2008 : Laura Lising Being a socialist is why I fight against the death penalty and the war--and why the Maryland State Police placed me in a federal database with the label of "terrorist."
December 2, 2008 A recent forum at UC-Santa Cruz boasted a panel of experts in economics...who couldn't explain what went wrong with the economy.
November 25, 2008 Barack Obama's choice of Madeleine Albright and Jim Leach to represent him at the Group of 20 summit should send a worrying signal.
November 25, 2008 What should be in an auto bailout | Not an isolated movement | Teamsters at Oak Harbor Freight | Pushing Obama to deliver
November 25, 2008 Top executives at Goldman Sachs are foregoing bonuses--but that doesn't mean the company has changed its greedy ways.
November 20, 2008 The conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo are dire for millions of its people.
November 20, 2008 Obama's record on immigration | What would true democracy look like? | McCain's racist supporters
November 20, 2008 I strongly sympathize with all of those who are victims of injustice at the hands of the police and our current system.
November 14, 2008 The only way that movements will be rebuilt is by fighting around immediate questions, whether troops out of Iraq now or an end to foreclosures.
November 14, 2008 Stop scapegoating Blacks for Prop 8 | The narrow margin on Prop 8 | Bloomberg sidesteps the voters | A view of the election from the UK
November 14, 2008 Jocelyn Voltaire found out her home would be foreclosed on because she was unable to pay rising mortgage payments when her son was killed in Iraq.
November 7, 2008 The desperate actions of veterans are an unavoidable consequence not only of a disastrous war, but also of repeated snubbing by the media.
November 7, 2008 The fight for union democracy | Time for Andy Stern to go | Priorities of the system | Engaging Obama supporters
November 7, 2008 Black people in America continue to face an unbelievable amount of repression and bondage, approaching the darkest hour of Southern slavery.
October 31, 2008 We shouldn’t be shy about being atheists or insisting on rational, scientific thought to guide human society.
October 31, 2008 Cutting services and stealing our money | Vote for Obama and build the movements | No more "lesser-evilism" | Boeing engineers facing a struggle
October 31, 2008 Bill Maher's film is the latest in what is becoming a long line of neo-atheist literature and documentaries that attack Islam.
October 28, 2008 Since Barack Obama became a serious contender for Democratic Party nomination, rappers have lent their voices in support of his campaign.
October 28, 2008 A closer look at the Electoral College, particularly regarding the 2000 election, illustrates how it functions to limit democracy in the U.S.
October 28, 2008 If any more evidence is needed that the U.S. health care system is failing, consider that the U.S. recently placed 29th in infant mortality out of 37 industrial nations surveyed.
October 23, 2008 In spite of the numerous arguments in favor of affirmative action, its proponents have mostly suffered defeat in recent years.
October 23, 2008 A businessman in plumber’s clothing | We have no illusions about Obama | A message to the banks | Safeguarding the right to vote | Is Obama less threatening to the elite?
October 23, 2008 The world of super-max prisons is one in which isolation and segregation is used to inflict psychological brutality.
October 17, 2008 Barney Frank sells the bailout | The failure of corporate unionism | Turning their backs on abortion rights | Building opposition to war in Afghanistan
October 17, 2008 : Leela Yellesetty The average undergraduate today will finish school with more than twice as as much debt as their counterpart a decade ago.
October 13, 2008 The presidential debates are most notable for what they lack--accountability, impartiality and third-party voices.
October 13, 2008 The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses several sleight-of-hand tactics to undercount the unemployed.
October 13, 2008 SEIU President Andy Stern's strategy for unionism flies in the face of why unions were formed in the first place.
October 9, 2008 Obama's timidity in the debates stems partly from the judgment of advisers who believe the country "won't elect an angry Black man."
October 9, 2008 A 60-minute version of the anti-Islam documentary, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, is being distributed for free here in Ohio.
October 9, 2008 On the day they were scheduled to be evicted, Frances Louis and her family worked with activists to organize a blockade.
September 30, 2008 McCain and Palin are mining the depths of the legitimate anger working people feel and pinning it on people of color.
September 30, 2008 Forced to quit after an abortion | "Guarding" New Orleans | Obama is a chance for change | What they mean by "change" | Facts about the EPA and atrazine
September 30, 2008 Activists are challenging the Israeli siege on Gaza, which continues while 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza face extreme shortages of food, water and electricity.
September 25, 2008 New reports are detailing the horrendous abuse of immigrant workers at meat-processing plants in the Cincinnati area.
September 25, 2008 Breadlines for us, billions for Wall Street | Adding insult to injury for Troy Davis | Big government is not the answer | Tension rising in the U.S. “backyard"
September 25, 2008 As California politicians pass the buck for the budget crisis, many of the state's most vulnerable are losing the meager services on which their lives depend.
September 24, 2008 The New Orleans residents who evacuated because of Hurricane Gustav are returning to destruction and neglect still left from Hurricane Katrina.
September 18, 2008 Troy Davis is a kindred spirit in a different part of this country, yet we are experiencing damn near the same things.
September 18, 2008 Antiwar activists from the University of Iowa traveled to Minnesota to participate in street blockades during the Republican convention.
September 17, 2008 A mural unveiled in Brooklyn was created by young women as an artistic response to military recruitment and the issues women face in the military.
September 17, 2008 Fire and brimstone for Palin | Going in the right direction | Sexism in the college classroom | Standing up in the stands | Repression not only a Republican tool
September 17, 2008 Want to play golf on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour? You'd better speak English.
September 11, 2008 City developers have come up with a plan that will likely force the current community out of San Diego's Barrio Logan.
September 11, 2008 : Rebekah Ward Marion McGauley was sentenced to five to 10 years in a Georgia prison for a crime that never took place.
September 9, 2008 A recent spate of crimes in Oakland, Calif., has led to the city teaming up with the vigilante group Guardian Angels.
September 8, 2008 Slaughtering civilians in Afghanistan | Workers did take part in the Cuban Revolution | Why can't the left unify? | A failing mental health care system | The Republicans' transparent ploy
September 8, 2008 The idea that higher oil prices create incentives to conserve that are necessary for a clean-energy revolution is wrong.
September 4, 2008 Amid city programs being slashed and an increasingly tough job market, there's one institution in New Haven that's hiring--the police.
September 4, 2008 Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention was crafted to dispel racist stereotypes and prove she's no radical.
September 4, 2008 : Courtney Cenname I'm supposed to start school next week, but my hopes for finishing college have just been destroyed.
September 3, 2008 A new reform caucus in the Chicago Teachers Union kicked off its effort to develop solidarity with community organizations.
September 2, 2008 I found the Socialism 2008 conference to be amazing, and my experience there filled me with hope for the future.
September 2, 2008 Not indifferent, but rightly critical | Protesting "free trade" in Peru | A cheap shot from SocialistWorker.org | The Olympics and human potential
September 2, 2008 It's a fact that the U.S. invades, bombs, occupies and interferes in the internal affairs of other countries far more than any other country on the planet.
August 28, 2008 More to the Olympics than George Bush | What really happened in Ohio? | SW was right about The Dark Knight | No kindness in the House of Corrections | Don't fight for cheaper oil
August 28, 2008 A recent experience at work illustrates the way capitalism pushes workers into struggle, and shows how we can win if we stick together.
August 20, 2008 I've learned a great deal about how the for-profit mental health care industry treats the workers who dedicate their lives to helping people.
August 20, 2008 Refusing to be indifferent to Obama | History according to Bush | Nothing golden about the Olympics | Forced to depend on bad food
August 20, 2008 The murder of an unarmed African American man by police is exposing the deep flaws in Oakland's recent police hiring spree.
August 14, 2008 Freedom of speech is being threatened in the "progressive" town of Madison, Wis.
August 14, 2008 ExxonMobil posted the highest quarterly profits in U.S. history, even as unemployment rose to a four-year high.
August 8, 2008 On the evening of July 7, a reverend who runs a homeless shelter for gay and transgender teens in Astoria, Queens, was brutally assaulted.
August 8, 2008 Thrown away by the system | Something to applaud in The Dark Knight | Batman's never-ending fight | The Dark Knight is just a movie | Blaming the victims of racism
August 8, 2008 Gabriel Gonzalez is an innocent man who has spent 14 years on Texas' death row.
August 6, 2008 Obama and the U.S. ruling class are trying to salvage the credibility of American military interventions by refocusing on Afghanistan.
August 6, 2008 Saying that The Dark Knight justifies right-wing vigilantism creates an inaccurate caricature of a more interesting film.
August 6, 2008 On June 10, radio personality Bob Lonsberry made racist, sexist and classist remarks on the air targeting children of color.
July 29, 2008 When we used a SocialistWorker.org article to build solidarity for the Seattle sprinkler fitters' strike, dozens of dockworkers found out about the struggle.
July 29, 2008 Don't blame AFTRA for actors' talks | U.S. hand in Colombia's hostage crisis | Baiting the homeless in New Orleans | Israel's apartheid continues | Is "inspiration" really what’s important?
July 29, 2008 My job at a New York HIV clinic isn't psychotherapy so much as shoring up the ruins of what was once a semi-functional system.
July 25, 2008 The one and only objective any business or employer seems to have is to cut away at the paycheck.
July 25, 2008 Readers will be happy to learn of the principled stand against the bigoted career of Jesse Helms made by a white 51-year-old North Carolina man.
July 18, 2008 Should juvenile offenders in Illinois be sentenced to natural life sentences and given no opportunity for parole, even if it is their first offense?
July 18, 2008 You know things must be going badly in Afghanistan if George W. Bush is forced to admit that "it's been a tough month" for the occupiers.
July 15, 2008 Cleveland police officer Jim Simone, whose nickname is "Supercop," has been involved in 10 shootings in his career, and three of the victims have died.
July 15, 2008 The Department of Veterans Affairs has been exposed not only to Congress, but also to the national and international media, for its deplorable treatment of veterans.
July 10, 2008 It was unfortunate that the UTLA members voted "no" on a recent proposed dues increase.
July 10, 2008 It's not fair to make smokers pay for handouts to insurance companies, nor is it fair to penalize people suffering from an addiction.
July 10, 2008 As in just about every city, the police in Boston are flooding into neighborhoods and increasing surveillance, all in the name of cracking down on violence.
July 8, 2008 The education programs sponsored by Obama adviser David Boren say a lot about the priorities a future Democratic administration would pursue.
July 8, 2008 UTLA dues vote not surprising | SW got the Seattle strike right | Democrats are part of the problem | Farewell to a racist | Keep up the good work
July 8, 2008 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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