This week
: Eric Ruder Prominent Democratic lawmakers are demanding that Iraqis pay for reconstructing their country from the damage inflicted by the U.S. occupation.
May 12, 2008 : Michael Klare The growing global demand for energy is driving the world's military powers into confrontations to control the earth's dwindling resources.
May 9, 2008
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on an Iowa slaughterhouse in the largest raid in the state's history.
May 14, 2008 : Martina Correia The sister of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis explains why the courts aren't letting evidence of his innocence be heard.
May 14, 2008 The brutality of Philadelphia police is on display for the world to see in a video showing a dozen officers descending on three African American men.
May 12, 2008 : Adam Turl The "working class" and its much debated "bitterness" are at the forefront of the 2008 election, but with this has come a reprise of longstanding stereotypes.
May 9, 2008
A growing movement of immigrant workers in France is challenging President Nicolas Sarkozy with strikes and occupations.
May 14, 2008 : Yurii Colombo The left suffered an unprecedented defeat in Italy's elections, allowing right-winger Silvio Berlusconi to take over for a third term as prime minister.
May 13, 2008 : David Barsamian It's important to talk about U.S. involvement in Pakistan, because that explains a lot about why the country is the way it is today.
May 13, 2008 Whenever you hear a U.S. official criticize the Myanmar junta for failing to react to the cyclone tragedy, remember the shameful federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
May 12, 2008
The debate about lethal injection and the death penalty won't be over as long as we have a government that is in the business of killing.
May 13, 2008
Britain's "New Labour" government is gutting one of the longstanding features of "communal decency"--the local post office.
May 14, 2008
A man who spent 14 years waiting to be Britain's prime minister doesn't seem to have any coherent reason for wanting the job.
May 12, 2008
If you look beyond the battles among the candidates, Election 2008 is bringing into focus a political shift to the left that runs deeper than the presidential campaign.
May 13, 2008
Frederick Engels provides a materialist analysis of the rise of class society and, with it, the roots of women's oppression.
May 12, 2008
Without its own political party, leaders and political representatives, the working class will remain subordinated to the Republicans and Democrats.
May 9, 2008
Supporters of the Freightliner Five turned out in Cleveland, N.C. and other cities for actions to protest their illegal termination.
May 14, 2008 Hundreds of labor activists and organizers met in Providence, R.I., to discuss strategies for the movement.
May 14, 2008 Immigrant restaurant workers win their four-month fight against a manager's sexual harassment.
May 12, 2008 Harvard workers and students rallied in front of the administrative offices to protest the unfair treatment of a university library worker.
May 12, 2008 UNITE HERE is organizing a boycott of Baltimore's Sheraton City Center Hotel in a fight for union rights.
May 9, 2008
San Francisco State University students are linking the fight against state budget cuts with the struggle for immigrant rights.
May 13, 2008
Two activists arrested at the May 7 protests over the not-guilty verdicts for the police who killed Sean Bell describe their experience.
May 13, 2008 Highlighting Socialist Worker's disagreements with some of Wright's views seemed off point in your editorial.
May 13, 2008 The first 45 minutes of Iron Man were so horribly racist, sexist and pro-military that I nearly walked out.
May 13, 2008 Tribal lines do exist in Iraq | Will Obama be better? | Massachusetts school budgets slashed | Shutting down debate about racism | Who owns the airwaves?
May 12, 2008 As budgets get cut, libraries are often first on the chopping block, but it's difficult to assign monetary value to the invaluable social goods that libraries provide.
May 9, 2008
A movie based on a right-wing Marvel Comic book series makes a bitter critique of the war profiteers.
May 9, 2008
With few exceptions, white working-class people are presented on TV via the same stereotypes that pervade American culture.
May 14, 2008
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