Issue 682 | October 10, 2008
: Michael Schwartz The mainstream media insist that conditions in Iraq have improved under a "fragile peace." But the reality is fraught with conflict and complications.
: Alan Maass The financial disaster shaking the world today is the result of a free-market system that protects the wealth of a few, while the rest of us pay the price.
: Lee Sustar For everyone who can't make heads or tails of the media's account, SocialistWorker.org explains the causes and consequences of the financial crisis.
: Adam Turl Economists may be quibbling over whether a recession has officially begun, but the standard of living for workers has already taken a deep cut.
The next president will inherit a devastating economic crisis. So what impact would that have on the agenda of a future Obama administration?
The bankers will soon begin collecting their $700 billion ransom. And they can thank Barack Obama for helping them get away with it.
The old saying of the Industrial Workers of the World, "An injury to one is an injury to all," is a crucial slogan for the labor movement.
: Darrin Hoop The world's second-biggest aircraft maker is out to starve 27,500 strikers back to work, but workers are holding the line.
: Larry Bradshaw and Brian Cruz Thousands of members of SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West turned out to protest the international union's attempt to take control of their local.
Full-time faculty, members of United Academics-AFT/AAUP win an important contract victory at the University of Vermont.
Activists are taking the testimonies of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans on the road with a series of Winter Soldier events in several cities.
As anger builds over Congress' bailout for the banks, activists gathered in several cities to say "No blank check for Wall Street."
People in Washington, D.C., protested the closure of a homeless shelter as Congress debated Wall Street's $700 billion bailout.
More than 100 people packed a church to remember Tony Randolph Hunter, who was beaten to death in an antigay attack.
On the day they were scheduled to be evicted, Frances Louis and her family worked with activists to organize a blockade.
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.
Battle in Seattle uses video footage of the 1999 protests and an all-star cast to recall a high point in the anti-globalization struggle.
Spike Lee's new epic film Miracle at St. Anna puts Black soldiers back into the story of the Second World War.
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