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Ten socialist classics

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg’s book was the first major work to take up a critical issue that divided the socialist movement—and does still to this day.
Two new victims of "Boston's finest"

As in just about every city, the police in Boston are flooding into neighborhoods and increasing surveillance, all in the name of cracking down on violence.
David Boren’s education plan

The education programs sponsored by Obama adviser David Boren say a lot about the priorities a future Democratic administration would pursue.
Views in brief

UTLA dues vote not surprising | SW got the Seattle strike right | Democrats are part of the problem | Farewell to a racist | Keep up the good work

Hidden casualties

Suicides among veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan now likely exceed combat deaths, but the government is trying to keep the crisis quiet.
Column: John Pilger

From triumph to torture

Returning to his home in Gaza from a trip to Britain, Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was seized by Israel's security services and brutalized.
Analysis: Todd Chretien

Behind the Colombia hostage rescue

Does anyone believe John McCain just happened to be visiting Colombia when the U.S.-backed military pulled off a high-profile hostage rescue?
Rising toll for U.S. in Afghanistan

June was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the war began and the second straight month that the toll was higher than in Iraq.
Strike shuts down Seattle building sites

A strike by 300 fire sprinkler installers has shut down construction at most large construction sites in Seattle and western Washington.
Exxon’s profits versus workers’ lives

I was 12 years old when the Exxon Valdez tanker hit the Bligh Reef in 1989, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil in to Prince William Sound.
Who is preying on Generation Debt?

Military recruiters not only visit campuses and hover around malls; they also descend on the prison population, which is disproportionately poor.
Views in brief

Why are the real criminals free? | Privilege at the Columbia Secondary School | UTLA dues vote a good thing | Democrats’ record on Indonesia | Making sense of "voter apathy"

Column: Sharon Smith

Exxon's legal guardians

Corporate America is celebrating the Supreme Court decision in the Exxon Valdez case that shields the world's most profitable company against its victims.
Analysis: Lee Sustar

Battered by two economic storms

Workers are enduring a sharp cut in living standards caused by rising food and gas prices--while a credit crunch, caused by the housing crisis, drags on.
Comment: Mike Marqusee

Munch's very real phantoms

"The Scream," one of the world's best-known and widely reproduced painted images--is back on display at a museum in Norway.
Review: Charles Peterson

Weapon of mass destruction

The Incredible Hulk captures the amoral and villainous nature of the military's hierarchal food chain, while providing plenty of thrills.
Killings by Chicago cops stir anger

A rash of police-involved shootings that has left five people dead in Chicago in the past two weeks sparked a small, but resolute, protest.
Houston protest against ICE raids

The Houston immigrant rights community isn't allowing ICE to conduct raids on local workplaces without a response.

Obama's war room

One major reason for Barack Obama's popularity is the belief that he's antiwar. But the men and women he's gathered around him as advisers are veteran war-makers.
Editorials

The Feds' contempt for justice

The federal government's never-ending persecution of Sami Al-Arian reached a new low when Al-Arian was charged with two counts of criminal contempt.

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