Issue 669 | April 11, 2008
: Elizabeth Schulte In tomato fields in Florida, in a shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., in Los Angeles sweatshops, immigrant workers are enduring a form of modern-day slavery.
Iraqi security forces may have carried out summary executions, according to revelations that once again expose the scale of brutality in "liberated" Iraq.
How did the Sadrist movement arise, and what are its conflict with other Shia forces? A book by Patrick Cockburn provides answers.
: Lee Sustar The discussion of Venezuela's future is heating up--including a clash between the left and right wings of the "revolutionary process" itself.
A defiant outpouring of opposition during elections in Zimbabwe has pushed Robert Mugabe's dictatorship to the brink of defeat.
Egyptian activists are calling for solidarity with victims of repression in Egypt following a renewed crackdown.
Whoever the Democratic nominee is will take a huge fundraising and business endorsement advantage into the November election.
For the 3 billion people who survive on less than $2 a day, the upward spiral in food prices has meant a struggle for the most basic of human rights.
John McCain is proposing warmed-over supply-side economics--and there's less to the Democrats' criticisms of business than meets the eye.
Frederick Engels' pamphlet provided a popular account of the origin of socialist ideas and the Marxist view of history.
: Jerry Tucker Labor activist Jerry Tucker talks to Socialist Worker about the state of organized labor three years after the split in the AFL-CIO.
The coming contract fight at Verizon embodies many of the key issues facing a struggling labor movement.
Public education activists from Canada, Mexico and the U.S. will gather in Los Angeles at the Trinational Conference in Defense of Public Education.
A leader of the group United Workers of Van Nuys talks about the struggle to defend victims of a February ICE raid.
West Coast longshore workers are gathering support for their decision to stop work May 1 to protest the U.S. war in Iraq.
Tope Awe's friends and activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are determined to fight her deportation order.
A torrent of protest broke out in Rhode Island after the Republican governor issued an anti-immigrant executive order.
Campus Antiwar Network activists and supporters debate a Socialist Worker editorial on strategy of the antiwar movement.
Home buying is out of reach | Defending lawyers in Pakistan | How U.S. rulers use Tibet
: Steve Earle One of the most explicitly political musicians around talks about his views on music, politics and the struggle for justice.
In the film Under the Same Moon, director Patricia Riggen gives a human face to the immigration issue.
White Light Black Rain reveals a far darker portrait of the August 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki than the conventional one.
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