This week
: Martin Smith Tens of thousands of veterans are struggling to stay in school because of a bureaucratic snafu involving GI Bill education benefits.
October 30, 2009 : Eric Ruder 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.
November 4, 2009
: Petrino DiLeo Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms are looking forward to a bonus orgy for executives this year--supposedly for a job well done.
November 4, 2009
: Sherry Wolf In contrast to the surge of pro-LGBT activism and legislative progress, Maine voters overturned equal marriage rights by a narrow margin.
November 5, 2009 : Adam Sanchez The Obama administration's so-called "Race to the Top" funds for schools will further the agenda of school "reform" and privatization.
November 2, 2009 : Lee Sustar 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.
November 6, 2009 : Dave Zirin If Tuesday's elections reveal nothing else, it's that the time for swooning over photo ops is past. We need action, not words.
November 5, 2009 : Solomon Hughes The leading corporate lobbyist against a "public option" in the U.S. helped waste billions on "market reforms" of Britain's National Health Service.
November 4, 2009 Nearly 500 people rallied against the death penalty in Texas as the issue of wrongful convictions and state killing of innocent people has come center stage.
November 2, 2009
: Shaun Joseph A deal that is supposed to reinstate Manuel Zelaya as president forced concessions from the coup regime, but they were highly conditional.
November 2, 2009 : Malalai Joya A courageous Afghan opponent of the U.S. occupation of her country and the tyrants in power today makes the case that U.S. troops must be withdrawn now.
November 3, 2009 Two labor and community activists in Mexico describe the fight for justice at an auto parts factory in the northern maquila zone.
October 30, 2009 Three Puerto Rican activists discuss the dynamics of the mass mobilization against the layoffs of more than 25,000 public-sector workers.
November 5, 2009 : Oscar Estrada With a deal that would restore Manuel Zelaya still in the balance, an opponent of the coup regime discusses the resistance's next move.
November 4, 2009
Thirty years after he visited Pol Pot's Cambodia, John Pilger describes the holocaust he witnessed there.
November 5, 2009
There are two wrong interpretations of the November 3 election results circulating in the political establishment and among its chatterers.
November 6, 2009
There must be millions who managed to forget about Tony Blair for the last two years, and now this dreadful man might be ruling us again?
November 2, 2009
The Democrats' proposal for a "public option" is so scaled back that it's barely public--and it can hardly be called much of an option.
November 3, 2009
The regimes of Eastern Europe that collapsed 20 years after a series of mass rebellions were the opposite of what we mean by socialism.
November 3, 2009 Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a history of workers' struggle against the self-described Communist regimes of Eastern Europe.
November 6, 2009
The streets of Philadelphia have been overrun by cars, bikers and pedestrians after SEPTA workers struck for a fair contract.
November 6, 2009 Workers at SK Hand Tools in Chicago prevailed in a strike that forced the company to restore health care and pensions.
November 6, 2009 About 150 workers and activists rallied October 28 in solidarity with workers in several Indianapolis hotels fighting for union recognition.
November 2, 2009 Candidates of a rank-and-file reform group in the Chicago Teachers Union won a vote for trustees of the teachers' pension fund.
November 2, 2009
Some 400 activists marched in Portland for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender equal rights and to protest anti-gay violence.
November 3, 2009 A group of 30 Michigan State University students and faculty picketed the state capitol October 30 to combat recent budget cuts and tuition hikes.
November 5, 2009 University of North Texas activists marched to demand that same-sex couples be allowed to participate in the Homecoming Court.
November 3, 2009 Following the killing of Kiwane Carrington by a police officer, the Champaign, Ill., community has found ways to express its outrage.
November 3, 2009
However well-intentioned, a moralistic approach can have profound implications for how adherents of animal rights politics view human oppression.
November 6, 2009 Forty years since Stonewall, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities have again had enough. It's time to throw down the glove.
November 3, 2009 Other species don't need political rights like the vote, but they absolutely deserve the ability to live out life according to their instincts.
November 6, 2009 The American people made history in electing Barack Obama--and they expected big reforms instead of the same old America Obama represents.
November 4, 2009 While I often agree with the criticisms made in articles at SocialistWorker.org, I think this is not the period for polemics.
November 4, 2009 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
November 6, 2009
: Helen Redmond 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.
November 5, 2009
Building a stadium during a crisis to house a team that doesn't exist is bonkers. Selling it as a cure for the crisis is even worse.
November 3, 2009
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