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Editorials
The FCC’s Dec. 21 ruling on “net neutrality” attempts to put
into law the corporate monopolization of the Internet....
Posted Dec 22, 2010
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It’s easy to see that the tax deal is a bad deal for workers and all poor
and oppressed people....
Posted Dec 16, 2010
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The quarter-million U.S. diplomatic cables that are now no longer secret
undoubtedly contain enough information to expose the machinery of imperialist
foreign policy as a combination of lies, coercion, extortion and war....
Posted Dec 8, 2010
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President Barack Obama announced the newest attack on workers on Nov. 29 when he
proposed a two-year pay freeze for federal employees. Obama stated, “The
hard truth is that getting this deficit under control is going to require broad
sacrifice.”...
Posted Dec 2, 2010
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Most factory workers until recently earned wages and benefits that could
provide a family with a home, car, health care and retirement benefits....
Posted Nov 28, 2010
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Rep. Charles B. Rangel was convicted Nov. 16 by a House ethics panel of 12 of
the 13 ethics violations he faced. While ethics experts suggest that he will
likely be issued a letter of reprimand or a formal censure, rather than being
expelled, the trial and conviction cast a shadow over someone the Christian
Science Monitor calls “one of the most legendary Black politicians in
U.S. history and one whose venerable career contributed to the success of
generations of Black politicians.”...
Posted Nov 17, 2010
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If Congress does not move quickly to renew it, an emergency extension of
federal unemployment insurance will expire on Nov. 30. If this is allowed to
happen, reports the National Employment Law Project, 2 million workers will
lose their federal benefits in December alone....
Posted Nov 10, 2010
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This midterm election came as workers in the United States were trying to deal
with a third year of major job losses, foreclosures and evictions, and a
significant rise in poverty....
Posted Nov 3, 2010
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Nearly 20 years ago, a courageous Anita Hill testified during the Senate
Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing about persistent sexual
harassment by U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas, when she was
his aide....
Posted Oct 29, 2010
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The two wars of aggression begun by the Bush administration and continued by the
Democrats — with the support of the great bulk of the U.S. ruling class
— have turned into a net loss for all but the military-industrial
complex, the oil industry and a few top generals....
Posted Oct 22, 2010
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The recent spate of suicides by young people who are lesbian, gay, bi or
trans or perceived as such by their peers is heartbreaking. It is also a call
to action....
Posted Oct 14, 2010
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Two days before the huge jobs and justice rally in Washington, D.C., the House
on Sept. 29 threw a curve ball and called it a jobs bill. Republicans and Democrats finally got together and voted to expand the powers
of the Obama administration. But what for?...
Posted Oct 11, 2010
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U.S. imperialism is losing its attempt to occupy and control Afghanistan.
It is beginning to lose control of client state Pakistan. Now the Pentagon
— in collaboration with federal courts — has gotten a little piece
of revenge for its setbacks in the “Afghanistan-Pakistan” theater.
It has imposed a grotesque injustice on a Pakistani woman after the corporate
media demonized her....
Posted Oct 3, 2010
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As activists continue the fight to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” — the U.S. military’s bigoted policy against lesbian,
gay, bi, trans and queer service members — the law is being volleyed
about by the three branches of the U.S. capitalist government....
Posted Oct 1, 2010
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How should those in the United States who support Cuba in its struggle to remain
free of imperialist domination react to the news that the Cuban government has
made a painful decision to cut hundreds of thousands of state jobs?
Workers World says this should be a spur to greater solidarity with the
revolution and stronger efforts to end U.S. imperialism’s destructive
economic blockade of the island....
Posted Sep 22, 2010
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The thousands who united on Sept. 11 to say no to the Tea Party and its racist
allies have given a new impetus to the anti-racist and workers’ struggle.
They faced a right-wing opponent with a month’s head start, big funding
and enormous media publicity. But they stood strong to defend their Muslim
sisters and brothers and confront the hate-mongers, resisting pressure from the
government and corporate media. In the end, they outnumbered and out-shouted
the elements who follow Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich and their ilk. Even the
rightist New York Post had to admit that the anti-racists out-organized the
right-wing gang....
Posted Sep 19, 2010
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Anyone progressive is outraged by the Tea Party and its ultra-right
supporters’ poisonous attack against Muslims that is the essence of their
campaign to stop the building of an Islamic Community Center near the World
Trade Center site. An additional threat comes from these reactionaries’
ploy to rally on Sept. 11 at the site and exploit the grieving relatives of
9/11 victims....
Posted Sep 8, 2010
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From the point of view of the U.S. government and the Pentagon, the U.S. has
begun to wind down its military occupation of Iraq, now in the middle of its
eighth year....
Posted Sep 6, 2010
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Whatever happened to the “presumption of innocence” that every child
in this country gets told is a cornerstone of the U.S. judicial system?
A federal district judge in Savannah, Ga., ruled on Aug. 24 that Troy Davis had
failed to prove his innocence, thus giving Georgia prison authorities the
go-ahead to schedule his execution....
Posted Aug 25, 2010
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This August saw a happy birthday anniversary for Cuba, for Latin America and for
the world’s working and oppressed peoples. Fidel Castro is back. He is
back with vigor, as one can see from his return to the television screen with
appearances before the Cuban National Assembly....
Posted Aug 18, 2010
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The latest jobs report and economic growth numbers confirm that no recovery is
in store for the working class. On the contrary, mass unemployment is likely to
get worse, not better. The short-lived “jobless recovery” is on the
decline after less than a year, following a downturn lasting 19 months....
Posted Aug 11, 2010
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One of the first things the Bush-Cheney administration did on taking office in
2001 was to set up a super-secret energy task force. Oil and gas company
executives descended on the White House for hush-hush conclaves. Both Bush and Cheney owe their fortunes and their political careers to the
energy companies....
Posted Aug 4, 2010
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The crude arrogance of the Bush years has yet to be replaced with a kinder,
gentler form of imperialist diplomacy....
Posted Aug 1, 2010
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Suddenly this July 13 the British media was filled with stories of an Afghan
soldier or soldiers who opened fire on Britain’s Gurkha Rifles, killing
three, two of them British nationals. Given the increase in NATO forces in
Afghanistan with more combat, and especially with more U.S. troops in battle,
there will undoubtedly be more such incidents in the coming months involving
U.S. as well as other NATO troops....
Posted Jul 18, 2010
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There was justifiable outrage on
July 9 when a Los Angeles jury, stripped of all its potential African-American
jurors, found white former Bay Area Rapid Transit cop Johannes Mehserle guilty
of only the lightest of the charges against him — that of involuntary
manslaughter. That's the charge used when an intoxicated person
accidentally kills someone with his/her car, for example. But Mehserle hadn't been in an
accident. He had shot and killed young African-American Oscar Grant while
kneeling on Grant’s back in a BART station in Oakland, Calif....
Posted Jul 11, 2010
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The employment figures for June confirmed the negative trend of earlier months
for the U.S. economy and sent the stock markets down for the following few
days....
Posted Jul 9, 2010
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It wasn’t England that eliminated the U.S. team from the quarter-finals on
June 27 during the 2010 World Cup Soccer games in South Africa ... or Germany
or France or Spain or any other European team. It was the West African country
of Ghana that vanquished the team representing the world’s most powerful
imperialist country....
Posted Jun 30, 2010
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Like with “man bites dog,” when imperialists admit a crime it is big
news....
Posted Jun 25, 2010
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Activists in the lesbian, gay, bi and transgender communities are
continuing to push for a repeal of the reactionary “don’t ask,
don’t tell” law, which dictates the discharge of LGBT members of
the U.S. military if they reveal their sexuality or if it is otherwise
exposed....
Posted Jun 23, 2010
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You can’t get any from the top dogs at BP. Not a word of truth
comes out of Tel Aviv. And when anyone actually tells the truth, they get in
trouble for it....
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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While the capitalist economic crisis has severely hit millions of workers in the
U.S., low-wage women workers, especially mothers, face an extra set of
problems....
Posted Jun 7, 2010
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Capitalism just doesn’t work. A recent Pew Research Center poll
illustrated this reality when the results showed that fewer and fewer people in
the U.S. view capitalism in a positive light, especially among the younger
generation. Consider the following facts: Workers by the tens of millions are
being downsized out of their jobs or never have had a job to begin with; they
cannot afford health care and nutritious food; they are losing their pensions;
and they are being foreclosed and evicted out of their homes, all while global
warming and pollution, as the BP oil disaster reflects, run amok....
Posted May 26, 2010
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With 30 million under- and unemployed, cops shooting Black children in Detroit,
Arizona persecuting immigrants, all states and cities cutting education,
pensions and health care, and an oil slick destroying one of the most beautiful
and fecund bodies of water on earth, it’s understandable if people lose
track of U.S. imperialism’s foreign adventures. But it’s necessary
to constantly bring the struggle against war and occupation back to the front
burners....
Posted May 23, 2010
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We never trust what the state authorities say regarding someone held completely
in their power. Nor do we trust what the corporate media spreads about the
prisoner, his or her history or alleged motives. Even less would we trust what
they say about someone charged with “terrorism.”...
Posted May 6, 2010
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It is a time to act. Now. One action is already on the front burner: Boycott
Arizona....
Posted May 6, 2010
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The May Day demonstrations this year, from Los Angeles to New York and
many points in between, are breathing new life into the working-class struggle
in the United States....
Posted Apr 28, 2010
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It is now of utmost priority for all class-conscious workers to show solidarity
with immigrants, documented and undocumented.
The Arizona State Legislature has passed an anti-immigrant law that surpasses
all past ones in viciousness — the most repressive action since the 1920s
Palmer raids and the 1940s internment of Japanese-origin people. Few
immigration laws could be more destructive of class solidarity than
Arizona’s....
Posted Apr 25, 2010
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The U.S. presides over the Nuclear Security Summit held April 12-13 in
Washington. U.S. spokespeople keep repeating that its purpose is to keep
nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists. But U.S. imperialism is the one
that has wielded its nuclear arsenal as a terror threat, both against the
Soviet Union in the days it existed and against all sorts of states that had no
nuclear weapons. U.S. imperialism is the only power to actually use nuclear
weapons — against the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Japan, in the last days of World War II. And the Pentagon is still
“improving” its nuclear weapons....
Posted Apr 18, 2010
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News of the detention of Haitian earthquake survivors in prison-like detention
facilities in the U.S. have exposed, once again, just how little the U.S.
relief effort in Haiti is about actual relief for the suffering Haitian
people....
Posted Apr 11, 2010
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in Memphis on April 4, 1968, at the
height of the civil rights movement that he led. He did not live to see the end
of segregation, even in the schools. This year, there was little media attention on the anniversary of Dr.
King’s assassination. It is more acceptable to the ruling class to
celebrate his birthday and minimize the enormous struggles he helped unleash.
In the myth created by the corporate media, the ugly days of racism are behind
us, except for a right-wing “lunatic fringe” movement....
Posted Apr 7, 2010
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May Day went by uncelebrated publicly for three decades in the U.S. before 2005,
when the Million Worker March and others made a first effort to revive the
international workers’ holiday in New York City’s Union Square. In
2006 a mighty immigrant upsurge and general strike of millions on May Day put
it back on the entire U.S. map....
Posted Apr 5, 2010
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We haven’t heard that the FBI is investigating the Tea Party gangsters who
attacked Black and gay members of the House of Representatives this March. We
haven’t heard that this arm of the capitalist state is probing into the
loan agreements between the big banks and the universities that offer loans to
students and turn them into indentured servants.
What we did hear about was that FBI agents have started to harass U.S.
residents who visited Cuba in the summer of 2009....
Posted Mar 28, 2010
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There can no longer be any doubt about the character of the wars being waged by
the U.S. government in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They are not just Bush-Cheney wars, although these mass murderers should not be
left off the hook.
They represent more than a mistaken policy or a particularly brutal group of
politicians in the pockets of the oil companies.
These wars flow from the economic system that prevails in the United States.
The class that sits atop this vast capitalist economy is never satisfied.
Millionaires have become billionaires largely on the super-profits wrung from
their worldwide empire....
Posted Mar 18, 2010
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There are nearly 100,000 U.S. troops in Iraq seven years after the
illegal aggression, plus an equal number of “contractors” —
mercenaries. The U.S. occupation has left more than 1 million dead and created
5 million refugees. Anyone who opposes this war should join the protests in
Washington or other regional centers on March 20....
Posted Mar 11, 2010
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The March 4 national action for education rights was a massive student and youth
outpouring that brought hope to many. But it was not only an upsurge of
university students, as welcome as that alone would be. Representative sectors
of the working class and of people of color joined the struggle and broadened
its meaning....
Posted Mar 10, 2010
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Crookedness in U.S. ruling-class politics is the rule, not the exception. To win
the game, politicians often have to play by the same rule book as their peers
— a book that’s filled with corrupt tricks. So why is it that some
politicians get singled out for exposure, if they’re all playing the game?...
Posted Mar 10, 2010
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The images have been embedded in people’s consciousnesses forever:
thousands of Katrina survivors — the vast majority African-American and
indigent — languishing in front of the Convention Center in New Orleans
waiting for food, clean water and other humanitarian needs to be met in
devastating heat....
Posted Mar 3, 2010
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, credited with organizing the fighting force of the
Palestinian liberation group Hamas, was assassinated in Dubai by Israeli Mossad
agents, perhaps working together with other professional killers. That, at
least, is what everyone believes and is the most reasonable explanation of his
murder....
Posted Feb 28, 2010
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Shockwaves rippled through California when Anthem Blue Cross, the largest
for-profit health insurance company in the state, announced increases in
premiums of up to 39 percent. This would affect 800,000 individual
policyholders....
Posted Feb 24, 2010
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Many people think it is human nature to be greedy, to put the interests of the
individual before the common good — in a word, to live in a dog-eat-dog
society. At the same time, they may be moved by suffering and want to help
others but usually find themselves stymied. Hey, that’s capitalism, what
can you do about it?...
Posted Feb 17, 2010
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In the year since President Barack Obama became commander in chief of the U.S.
armed forces, several assumptions made earlier by millions of people who wanted
no more wars — in the Middle East or elsewhere — have fallen....
Posted Feb 10, 2010
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A 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision on Jan. 21 removed restrictions
on corporate funding for campaign advertisements in federal elections,
handing the capitalists an unrestricted right to buy elections....
Posted Feb 3, 2010
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It is the height of racism that allows government figures and their talking
heads in the corporate media to even mention looting in reports on Haiti....
Posted Jan 27, 2010
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With most media focusing on Haiti and people here in the U.S. gripped by the
humanitarian crisis, they may have missed the dramatic news out of Afghanistan.
Even as thousands of U.S. troops were landing in Port-au-Prince, Afghan
resistance fighters carried out a coordinated attack in the heart of occupied
Kabul, the Afghan capital....
Posted Jan 24, 2010
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Looking for terrorists?...
Posted Jan 13, 2010
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The imperialists have always used catchy phrases to sell their predatory wars.
World War I was “the war to end all wars.” The modern war for economic subjugation of oppressed nations by the small class
of super-rich capitalists is labeled “the war on terrorism.”...
Posted Jan 6, 2010
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