The war on public-sector unions

Lee Sustar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The long war on unions is escalating in the public sector as the recession wipes out tax revenue and triggers deep budget cuts in states, large and small.

What happened on November 3?

Lance Selfa — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

There are two wrong interpretations of the November 3 election results circulating in the political establishment and among its chatterers.

Transit workers strike in Philadelphia

John Coursey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The streets of Philadelphia have been overrun by cars, bikers and pedestrians after SEPTA workers struck for a fair contract.

SK workers claim strike victory

Lee Sustar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Workers at SK Hand Tools in Chicago prevailed in a strike that forced the company to restore health care and pensions.

Revolts behind the "iron curtain"

Dennis Kosuth — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a history of workers' struggle against the self-described Communist regimes of Eastern Europe.

Animal rights and self-determination

Ben Dalbey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

However well-intentioned, a moralistic approach can have profound implications for how adherents of animal rights politics view human oppression.

Socialism and the lives of animals

Amy Muldoon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Other species don't need political rights like the vote, but they absolutely deserve the ability to live out life according to their instincts.

Views in brief

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

We need a real public option | Puerto Rican workers show the way | The end of an era in music | Why our words matter | Liberation and the disabled

What does Maine tell us?

Sherry Wolf — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

In contrast to the surge of pro-LGBT activism and legislative progress, Maine voters overturned equal marriage rights by a narrow margin.

We need more than rhetoric

Dave Zirin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

If Tuesday's elections reveal nothing else, it's that the time for swooning over photo ops is past. We need action, not words.

The horror in Cambodia remembered

John Pilger — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Thirty years after he visited Pol Pot's Cambodia, John Pilger describes the holocaust he witnessed there.

Walking with the dead

Helen Redmond — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

A new exhibit for the Day of the Dead at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago speaks to the experiences of immigrants in the U.S.

Class struggle in Puerto Rico

Héctor Tarrido-Picart — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Three Puerto Rican activists discuss the dynamics of the mass mobilization against the layoffs of more than 25,000 public-sector workers.

Michigan tuition hike protest

Kevin Lynch — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

A group of 30 Michigan State University students and faculty picketed the state capitol October 30 to combat recent budget cuts and tuition hikes.

The banksters plot their next robbery

Petrino DiLeo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms are looking forward to a bonus orgy for executives this year--supposedly for a job well done.

The warlords' president

Eric Ruder — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Afghanistan's election farce came to a laughable end when Hamid Karzai was declared the winner after his rival dropped out of a run-off vote.

Screwing up health care on two continents

Solomon Hughes — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The leading corporate lobbyist against a "public option" in the U.S. helped waste billions on "market reforms" of Britain's National Health Service.

What comes next in Honduras?

Oscar Estrada — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

With a deal that would restore Manuel Zelaya still in the balance, an opponent of the coup regime discusses the resistance's next move.

The audacity of Obama

Gregory Morse — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The American people made history in electing Barack Obama--and they expected big reforms instead of the same old America Obama represents.

Not the time for polemics

Jason Farbman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

While I often agree with the criticisms made in articles at SocialistWorker.org, I think this is not the period for polemics.

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