ELECTION 2006

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
After the Republicans' humiliating defeat...
What's next?
The Democratic victory has led to a rise in expectations for an end to the Iraq war and more besides. But the Democrats have no plans to shake things up.

WHAT WE THINK
Antiwar activists can seize opportunities to organize
The election that said no to war
The central message of the 2006 election was so unmistakable that even George Bush couldn't miss it. Get. Out. Of. Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld gets the ax
Rise and fall of a war criminal
He was the architect of the war in Iraq, and like a condemned building, it all came tumbling down around Donald Rumsfeld's ears last week.

The unfortunate truth about Bernie Sanders
A socialist in the Senate?
The new senator from Vermont may have a portrait of Eugene Debs hanging in his office, but his politics have little in common with that great American socialist.

NO TO WAR AND OCCUPATION

Beit Hanoun massacre only the latest atrocity
Israel's endless killing in Gaza
Israel's massacre of 19 people in Beit Hanoun on November 8 is only the most deadly in four months of near-constant violence inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza.

Sara Rich on her daughter's struggle
Abused by the military she served
A mother talks to SW about the struggle of her daughter, a military resister who refused to return to Iraq after suffering sexual assaults.

OUR HISTORY AND TRADITION

The meaning of Marxism
Excerpts from a new book by Socialist Worker columnist Paul D'Amato that provides an introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx and the tradition he founded.

The struggle that toppled apartheid
The film Catch a Fire portrays one thread of one of the most inspiring struggles of the 20th century--the toppling of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Defying the government crackdown
Solidarity with the struggle in Oaxaca
Solidarity strikes and protest marches are highlighting the growing support for the five-month struggle in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

NATIONAL NEWS

Alan Newton on his 22 years of wrongful imprisonment
Half a lifetime stolen
Alan Newton talks about the injustice he endured, how he finally walked free, and the fight against wrongful convictions.

Prisoners' hunger strike spotlights...
Suffering on Texas' death row
A hunger strike has brought national attention to the cruel and unusual conditions faced by almost 400 death row prisoners housed in Texas' notorious Polunsky Unit.

Supreme Court to rule on abortion ban
In a case that could have wide-ranging consequences for a woman's right to choose, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about a federal ban on a late-term abortion procedure.

A new scandal for the Pentagon
Recruiters' lies caught on video
A recent media investigation found one way the military is able to attract new recruits, despite growing casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lie to them.

ON THE PICKET LINE

Bay Area hotel workers face anti-immigrant attack
Threatened for speaking out
Workers at the Woodfin Hotel in Emeryville, Calif., have been threatened with layoffs because they demanded that management respect a new living-wage ordinance.

November 15 day of action to support Houston strikers
Janitors raise the stakes
Chevron Texaco gas stations are the focus of a national day of action November 15 in support of striking janitors in Houston.

NEWS OF OUR STRUGGLE

Charting a course in the fight for abolition
More than 100 people from across the U.S. attended the sixth annual convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty in Chicago on November 11-12.

News and reports
Stand up for immigrant rights | Resisting borders from Mexico to Palestine | Stop the Nazis

VIEWS AND VOICES

The facts about Democrats and the Vietnam War
Cutting off funds for war?
Before it becomes as established as some other myths, let's review a quick timeline to see if Congress ended the Vietnam War by cutting off funding.

"What unemployment looks like"
The search for job openings at a new Mars candy store in midtown Manhattan laid bare the desperate reality of joblessness in a city whose mayor is a billionaire.

Views in brief
Confronting Zionism at UMass | Power in Oaxaca | Poor treatment by Kaiser

REVIEWS

Comin' to America
The real brilliance of the film Borat is that it takes aim at all of the undigested bits of barbarism in U.S. society--racism, sexism and homophobia.

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