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June 6, 2013

  • Recommended at Left Forum

    SocialistWorker.org contributors and supporters will be speaking at sessions at the Left Forum on June 7-9 in New York.

  • Turkish protesters demand their rights

    The Gezi Park protests resemble the Occupy Wall Street movement with its resilience, passion and creativity.

  • Views in brief

    Smith delivered the Counterpunch | The fight for justice for my brother | Stopping the war on teachers | Why trauma centers are becoming scarce

June 5, 2013

  • Can teachers beat the Chicago bully again?

    People across Chicago are fed up with Rahm Emanuel's corporate agenda and bullying tactics. So what needs to be done to deal him another defeat?

  • On trial for exposing war crimes

    More than 1,000 people gathered at Fort Meade in Maryland to protest the court-martial of whistleblower Bradley Manning.

  • The role of the left in SYRIZA

    A Greek socialist explains how left-wing groups are dealing with new challenges in the Coalition of the Radical Left.

  • Seattle joins the Fight for 15

    Seattle became the seventh city--and the first on the West Coast--where low-wage workers organized strike action and protests.

  • She must be released now

    Supporters are continuing their fight to win Lynne Stewart's immediate release from prison so she can be treated for cancer.

  • Purging the educators

    Priests of Our Democracy chronicles the witch-hunts that purged radical teachers from public high schools and colleges.

June 4, 2013

  • Karl Marx, radical environmentalist

    Activists today have much to gain by engaging with the ecological critique of capitalism developed by Marx and Engels in the 19th century.

  • Immigrants need not apply for Obamacare

    The Obama health care law will discriminate against the undocumented and recent immigrants when it kicks in next year.

  • What we need to learn about Woolwich

    If it really cared about Lee Rigby's life, the British government should discuss the reasons behind the bloody attack on him.

  • A taste of Tahrir at Taksim

    Attention is turning toward upcoming actions that the labor movement had already planned before the wave of protest began.

  • Marian Price is free at last

    An Irish political prisoner is finally home after spending more than two years unjustly confined and enduring force-feedings.

  • On strike at Evergreen State

    Student support workers at Evergreen State College are walking the picket lines in a strike for a fair contract.

June 3, 2013

  • Spring comes to Turkey

    The potential for a new Turkey lies in Istanbul's Taksim Square, where a new generation is taking up the struggle for democracy despite bitter repression.

  • The roots of Turkey's rebellion

    While the ostensible issue sparking massive, Occupy-style protests in Istanbul is modest, the real causes run deeper.

  • Unions against Keystone XL

    One voice has been conspicuously absent from reports about the Keystone pipeline project: Canadian workers who oppose it.

  • Ways of (not) seeing

    CounterPunch's latest flailing defense against criticisms about sexism bizarrely invokes a 17th century Dutch painting.

  • Standing up to Monsanto

    Protests were held across California, from Eureka to San Diego, as a part of the international March Against Monsanto.

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