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Editorials
They — the Pentagon, the administration, the U.S. ruling class — fear and hate the truth....
Posted Dec 23, 2011
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If anybody was unconvinced that the Democratic and Republican parties are two sides of the same coin, the recent blockage of over-the-counter emergency contraception by the Obama administration should put such fantasies to rest.
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Posted Dec 14, 2011
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It is a myth that food scarcity exists here....
Posted Dec 12, 2011
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The NATO imperialists, chief among them the U.S., showed their desperation when they attacked Pakistani soldiers on Nov. 26, killing more than two dozen.
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Posted Dec 5, 2011
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The threat of a new imperialist intervention in Western Asia, aimed at seizing and controlling the resources of this energy-rich region, grows daily. The newest target of this land and resource grab is the Syrian Arab Republic....
Posted Nov 28, 2011
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The so-called “Thanksgiving”holiday will mark the 42nd commemoration by Native peoples of the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Mass. The event is once again dedicated to Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
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Posted Nov 23, 2011
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A secret Star Chamber is meeting right now in Washington, D.C. Like those of Medieval English monarchies, this assembly flouts its abuse of power. Its sessions are held behind closed doors, far from members of the public whose fate they are deciding....
Posted Nov 14, 2011
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The Occupy Wall Street protests are right. The richest 1 percent get richer and richer — and the top 1 percent of that 1 percent get richer still. Meanwhile the lower 99 percent — probably, based on certain statistics, really the lower 90 percent — get poorer or stagnate.
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Posted Nov 7, 2011
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The chain reaction of protest occupations that has swept the United States has already reinvigorated the struggle for equality and for participation in decisions that affect the lives of the 300 million people the demonstrators call the 99 percent....
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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That the U.S. Senate took four years to endorse the “free trade” accords between U.S. imperialism and its vassals in Panama, Colombia and south Korea is no sign there was anything good about these agreements for working people in any of the countries. ...
Posted Oct 23, 2011
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Washington’s slanderous campaign against Iran for an alleged assassination plot lacks evidence and fails every test of logic. Many people have raised questions as to its truth. But there’s an even more important question to ask: Why is the U.S. government desperate to use an unbelievable pretext to begin a campaign of sanctions and possible war against Iran?...
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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The banks are exerting heavy pressure on Greece again, demanding more austerity and privatization before they will come through with any credit....
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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In his groundbreaking book “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State,” Frederick Engels explained the evolution of the state...
Posted Oct 5, 2011
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As people in the U.S. and around the world watched in horror and protested the racist execution of 42-year-old African-American Troy Davis, with much less publicity another execution had taken place hours before Davis died on Sept. 21. ...
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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The heroic struggle to save the life of death-row prisoner Troy Davis from a legal lynching in Georgia is not an isolated one....
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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On Sept. 9 Interpol announced it was issuing a “Red Notice” to its
188-member countries telling them to arrest Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his
son Saif Al-Islam Gadhafi and former director of military intelligence Abdullah
Al-Senussi....
Posted Sep 18, 2011
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Here is the U.S. dripping blood from its bombing of Libya. It sends drones to
kill villagers in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It keeps five Cubans in prison for
13 years now for the “crime” of trying to thwart U.S.-based
terrorist attacks on their homeland....
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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Prisoners in Georgia and California are carrying forth the legacy of the
heroic Attica rebellion, which occurred 40 years ago in upstate New York....
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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Capitalism is an economic system that is driven not by human needs but by the
need of capitalists to grow their profits. Keep that in mind when thinking
about the situation we find ourselves in today....
Posted Aug 31, 2011
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The NATO powers of Europe and the U.S. are declaring victory after having pounded the small country of Libya for five brutal months. They are claiming that the “rebel” forces they command, whose road to Tripoli was paved by NATO air strikes that knocked out much of Libya’s civil and military capability, now control the capital....
Posted Aug 22, 2011
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On Aug. 13, the corporate media in imperialist Germany used the 50th
anniversary of the Berlin Wall to propagandize against communism and the German
Democratic Republic....
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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Excerpts from a talk to a July 28 Workers World Party
forum in New York by WWP Secretariat member Larry Holmes....
Posted Aug 12, 2011
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U.S. and French imperialism have flagrantly intervened in the Syrian crisis and
made it obvious that they will act to overthrow and replace President Bashir
Assad....
Posted Jul 31, 2011
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State employees in New York and Connecticut, as in so many other states, are
being told they have to make painful concessions in order to prevent mass
layoffs. But it’s not just the politicians who are telling them this.
It’s their own union leaders....
Posted Jul 22, 2011
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The heroism of now more than 6,600 California prisoners have put home-grown
prison torture, clear evidence of U.S. cruelty and depravity, before the
world....
Posted Jul 20, 2011
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A fraudulent and dangerous collusion of the two big capitalist parties in the
U.S. has put Social Security at risk. The excuse for attacking Social Security
is the phony crisis over the federal debt ceiling....
Posted Jul 14, 2011
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Given the oppressive and criminal role of Western imperialism in the world
today, it is no compliment to call Greece the “cradle of Western
civilization.” But it is true that this summer Greece is the cradle of
the class struggle against that same imperialist ruling class. In the past two
years the unions there — those in the union federation called PAME
— have held 20 general strikes, the last one for two consecutive days on
June 28-29...
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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Right now — that is, on June 28 — in the strike-closed harbor of
Athens, Greece, there are 350 courageous individuals ready to sail on a dozen
ships to deliver aid and solidarity to the people of Gaza...
Posted Jun 29, 2011
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Every worker knows that the “economic recovery” has been jobless....
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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The economic crisis facing Detroit is inseparable from the precipitous decline
of employment in the auto industry. The crisis is tied to the weakening of the
United Auto Workers, which was the primary force in winning a decent standard
of living for workers. This standard of living was the reason Detroit once had
the highest rate of homeownership in the U.S....
Posted Jun 20, 2011
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Forty years. That’s how long the “war on drugs,” first
declared on June 17, 1971, by President Richard M. Nixon, has lasted....
Posted Jun 20, 2011
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More and more in this period of prolonged, unprecedented stagnation of the
capitalist system, the rulers are resorting to war. War abroad and war at home.
War against the nations they want to plunder and war against the workers they
want to own lock, stock and barrel....
Posted Jun 13, 2011
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Politicians running the powerful imperialist countries in Europe and North
America and their corporate media have unanimously hailed the arrest of
Yugoslav/Serbian Gen. Ratko Mladic as a triumph of democracy. Even if you knew
nothing about the civil war in Bosnia, you would have to be suspicious of these
declarations. Why? Because the first thing the imperialists tried to do is use
the arrest to justify the current war against Libya....
Posted Jun 2, 2011
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When Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote the “Communist Manifesto,”
they derided the capitalist class for accusing communists of advocating
“a community of women.” In fact, it was these same moralizing
bourgeois moneybags who, “not content with having wives and daughters of
their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take
the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.”
What communists want, they explained, is to “do away with the status of
women as mere instruments of production.”...
Posted May 25, 2011
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Over the course of the last 20 years NATO has been revealed as the top criminal
conspiracy of the world. It’s the mob boss of all mobsters....
Posted May 19, 2011
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The fact is that this crisis goes much deeper than the capitalist political
parties will ever admit. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. Look at it
this way: Permanent, full-time jobs for most of the 30 million people in the
U.S. who are either unemployed or underemployed are not coming back. Even big
business media like the Wall Street Journal are talking about that....
Posted May 12, 2011
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Why did the U.S. government do it this way? Since the beginning of organized deadly warfare, when one side finally wins by capturing the leader of the other side, it has been the custom for the victor to display the captive for everyone to see.
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Posted May 3, 2011
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The politicians and media here want to convince us that our taxes should be
spent on “regime change” through acts of war. They want to send our
youth to kill and die there. So they demonize first and then attack.
The money it costs for each bomb, each missile of the thousands launched at the
people there could be used to hire scores of teachers or nurses here. The arms
dealers, the oil corporations and the banks share the plunder, but the workers
here and the people being bombed are forced to pay the costs....
Posted May 1, 2011
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This year, increased attacks on both immigrant and non-immigrant workers show
the need for the most united, militant action possible on May Day in the U.S....
Posted Apr 24, 2011
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U.S., British and French imperialism have escalated their military
intervention in Libya. And it is just beginning....
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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The Wall Street Journal has found out where the budget problem comes from: too
many taxes on the rich. Surprised?...
Posted Apr 14, 2011
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Whenever people around the world are being bombed, shot or having their land
occupied just because rich imperialists want what their country has, it’s
the right time to get out in the streets and protest....
Posted Apr 8, 2011
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It’s beyond time to stop the ruling class in both the U.S. and Japan from
dumping human and financial costs onto the backs of the workers and poor of the
world....
Posted Apr 5, 2011
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March 25 is the 100th anniversary of the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
fire, which took the lives of 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women and
girls in New York City....
Posted Mar 25, 2011
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The imperialist states with the greatest economic stakes in North Africa and the Middle East – the U.S., Britain and France – have once again used the United Nations Security Council as a political cover to endorse their naked aggression against a developing country struggling to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity....
Posted Mar 17, 2011
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We join with the people of Japan in condemning the Japanese government for its
lack of transparency in its response to the earthquake and tsunami — for
not telling people what is happening and for not preparing people for
evacuation if needed. At the same time, we solidarize ourselves with
Japan’s heroic public service and nuclear energy workers, who have been
working round the clock and, in many cases, risking their lives in order to
protect the lives of others. The country’s nuclear workers are especially
being made to bear the brunt of the dangers of the situation without any relief
and without enough care for their safety....
Posted Mar 16, 2011
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The U.S. has imposed sanctions on President Gadhafi and his family’s bank
accounts; by contrast, the U.S. did not impose similar sanctions on Mubarak and
his reported $70 billion in bank accounts. While President Barack Obama has
publicly called for Gadhafi to step down from office, he treated Mubarak with
kid gloves before the resolve of the Egyptian masses forced Mubarak to leave
office....
Posted Mar 2, 2011
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Of all the struggles going on in North Africa and the Middle East right now, the
most difficult to unravel is the one in Libya.
What is the character of the opposition to the Gadhafi regime, which reportedly
now controls the eastern city of Benghazi?
Is it just coincidence that the rebellion started in Benghazi, which is north
of Libya’s richest oil fields as well as close to most of its oil and gas
pipelines, refineries and its LNG port? Is there a plan to partition the
country?...
Posted Feb 23, 2011
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Workers World Party rejoices in the historic achievement of the
Egyptian people.
After 18 days of struggle they have achieved the goal that united the country
— a goal that was unthinkable 19 days ago. ...
Posted Feb 11, 2011
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Leonard Peltier, a leader of the heroic Wounded Knee uprising of Native
peoples in the mid-1970s, has been held in federal prisons in the U.S. for more
than 35 years....
Posted Feb 11, 2011
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The visit of the president of the People’s Republic of China, Hu Jintao,
to Washington has been played up as marking a shift in U.S.-Chinese relations
in the direction of new cooperation....
Posted Jan 29, 2011
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The 25 million to 30 million unemployed and underemployed workers in the U.S.
who might have listened to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union
address could not have found a single word in it to relieve them of their
plight. The same can be said for the millions facing foreclosure as well as the
47 million people officially living in poverty....
Posted Jan 26, 2011
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In the midst of unspeakable suffering of the Haitian people and just days after
the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, one of the figures most reviled by the
Haitian masses has returned to the country....
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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Workers World newspaper places its full support behind
the proposal from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression for everyone who can to
join the day of action set for Jan. 25....
Posted Jan 9, 2011
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