This week
: Richard Stacewicz Winter Soldiers brings together the voices of members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War to tell an often-neglected story from the antiwar movement.
October 10, 2008 : Michael Schwartz The mainstream media insist that conditions in Iraq have improved under a "fragile peace." But the reality is fraught with conflict and complications.
October 9, 2008
: Lee Sustar Wall Street's worst-ever week was part of a global stock market meltdown that could signal a far more devastating stage of the financial crisis.
October 11, 2008 : Alan Maass The financial disaster shaking the world today is the result of a free-market system that protects the wealth of a few, while the rest of us pay the price.
October 10, 2008 The bankers in Chicago are angry with--of all people--the county sheriff, who is refusing to forcibly remove residents from foreclosed properties.
October 10, 2008 : Eric Ruder SocialistWorker.org takes a graphical look at how Washington's bailout for Wall Street could be used to help working people.
October 10, 2008 : Eamonn McCann For a generation, the financial consultants and policymakers intoned a mantra celebrating the majesty of the free market.
October 8, 2008 : Lee Sustar World stock markets greeted Congress' passage of the so-called Troubled Assets Relief Program with an international meltdown.
October 7, 2008 : Lee Sustar For everyone who can't make heads or tails of the media's account, SocialistWorker.org explains the causes and consequences of the financial crisis.
October 6, 2008
: Jeff Bale Two far-right parties tapped frustration with the ruling social democrat-conservative coalition to make an electoral breakthrough.
October 6, 2008
Thabo Mbeki's downfall is no more than the downfall of a failed economic system that enriched the few and dumped the poor.
October 7, 2008
The next president will inherit a devastating economic crisis. So what impact would that have on the agenda of a future Obama administration?
October 9, 2008
Maybe we should let all the world's stockbrokers go bankrupt, and see if we can manage to carry on without them.
October 6, 2008
When all else fails, there's always bigotry. That sums up the direction of the McCain-Palin campaign as the final month of Election 2008 begins.
October 8, 2008 The bankers will soon begin collecting their $700 billion ransom. And they can thank Barack Obama for helping them get away with it.
October 7, 2008
The old saying of the Industrial Workers of the World, "An injury to one is an injury to all," is a crucial slogan for the labor movement.
October 8, 2008
Members of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra are on strike against unfair work expectations by the orchestra's board of directors.
October 10, 2008 Five weeks into an IAM strike, the profit-hungry airplane maker is trying to make workers hungry enough to settle for a bad contract.
October 7, 2008
Activists are taking the testimonies of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans on the road with a series of Winter Soldier events in several cities.
October 8, 2008 Immigrants rights activists clashed with the Minutemen vigilantes when they protested San Francisco’s sanctuary city status.
October 8, 2008 Some 1,500 people turned out to the recent Critical Resistance conference to discuss how to abolish the prison-industrial complex.
October 8, 2008 Some 1,157 people have been arrested in California by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in just three weeks.
October 6, 2008
SEIU President Andy Stern's strategy for unionism flies in the face of why unions were formed in the first place.
October 9, 2008 Obama's timidity in the debates stems partly from the judgment of advisers who believe the country "won't elect an angry Black man."
October 9, 2008 A 60-minute version of the anti-Islam documentary, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, is being distributed for free here in Ohio.
October 9, 2008
The book Illegal People explains how guest-worker programs help provide U.S. employers with a low-wage, flexible and largely silenced workforce.
October 9, 2008
Sports has become a foolproof way for politicians to show voters that they are "salt-of-the-turf" Americans.
October 9, 2008
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