Issue 684 | November 7, 2008
: Lee Sustar The U.S. economy is slipping deeper into the worst crisis since the Great Depression--and the rest of the world is tumbling down after it.
: Alan Maass John McCain and the Republicans are irate about Barack Obama's alleged determination to "spread the wealth around." What's so bad about that?
SocialistWorker.org asks leading voices on the left--Howard Zinn, Mike Davis, Sharon Smith and others--about the prospects for our struggles in a new era.
Analysis and commentary from our writers and columnists as the results rolled in on a historic Election Night.
The right thinks he's a socialist. But many supporters have a parallel belief--that Barack Obama will reveal his true progressive nature in the White House.
The sweeping victory of Barack Obama shows that change is coming--but what kind, and in whose interest, depends on how working people organize.
Anyone who has ever gotten involved in even the smallest struggle knows that without organization, little can be accomplished.
: Brian Cruz Puerto Rico public school teachers voted to reject a pro-management union backed by the Service Employees International Union.
Arbitrators in the Freightliner Five case have overturned the firing of two workers, but let stand the termination of three others.
: Darrin Hoop Members of the International Association of Machinists voted overwhelmingly to approve a contract that held off management's worst demands.
Providers and recipients of Seattle's social services came out in full force to oppose budget cuts proposed by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.
More than 200 students and community members attended a rally to protest the University of Vermont's investment in war profiteers, military contractors and mercenary firms.
Some 120 people turned out to hear the testimonies of soldiers and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars at Winter Soldier hearings in Baltimore.
A counter-recruitment action at the Rochester Institute of Technology led to Marine recruiters packing up and leaving ahead of schedule.
Thousands of supporters of equal marriage rights flooded the streets of San Diego's Hillcrest neighborhood in defense of gay marriage.
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.
In spite of the numerous arguments in favor of affirmative action, its proponents have mostly suffered defeat in recent years.
: Anthony Arnove Studs Terkel, who died last week at the age of 96, used his interviews to amplify working-class voices that some preferred not to hear.
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