Front page from November 16, 2012

Israeli forces assassinated a leader of Hamas and unleashed air strikes on Gaza--with the threat of more barbarism to come.

Voters in Election 2012 rejected the Republicans' slash-and-burn approach--but the cuts are coming anyway unless working people mount a resistance.

An SW writer explains how the Democrats' core voters sealed the Republicans' fate--but re-elected a president who will continue austerity.

In spite of our criticisms of Obama, it was a joy to watch the professional bigots of the Republicans slouching toward despair.

Unions in Portugal, Cyprus, Spain, Italy and other countries are planning coordinated strike action against austerity.

Women who are sexually assaulted on campus face a culture of silencing and victim-blaming from college administrators.

The civil rights movement's challenge to the Dixiecrats in Mississippi in 1964 paved the way for a new stage of the struggle.

A SocialistWorker.org contributor has a deal to offer Bill O'Reilly of Fox News on the basis of his Election Night comments.

Most of us will have breathed a sigh of relief at the trouncing of the Republicans, but our movements face new challenges ahead.

Barack Obama won re-election because of a strong turnout by Democratic voters, but it will take struggle to turn the right-wing tide in national politics.

SW contributors Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky were trapped in New Orleans by Katrina--their story, first told here, shocked the world.

In a 2005 interview, left-wing author Mike Davis described the consequences, natural and man-made, of the Katrina catastrophe.

Anger at New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is beginning to boil over after Hurricane Sandy--as thousands of people continue to need aid.

Decades of neoliberal intervention in Haiti created the conditions for catastrophe in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

Left-wing activists are asking supporters around the world to join International Days of Solidarity against repression in Russia.

When you got your power back after Hurricane Sandy depended not just on where you live, but on how wealthy you are.

San Francisco Giants star pitcher Sergio Romo helped show after the World Series how the shape of America has changed.

Two residents of the New York City borough provide a glimpse of the devastation that the media largely overlooked.

Supporters of women's rights deserve better than what Barack Obama has offered them for the last four years.

By the time Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech, the pitfalls of his nonviolent strategy were clear.

The CD Blair Pathways chronicles the faces of resistance at Blair Mountain, from miners to environmental activists.

Mary Thorson was a young teacher whose on-the-job bullying contributed to her suicide. She deserves justice.

At a recent meeting in Marysville, Wash., activists and community members gathered to register their opposition to a proposed coal terminal.

Organizing for Proposition 30 is a part of building a movement to resist concessions and redistribute wealth stolen by the 1 percent.

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