Mayday! Mayday!
A year ago, the corporate media was echoing
Bush, saying that Iraq had been "liberated" and the war was
over. Workers World's headline was: "Colonial occupation in
trouble--U.S. moves to disarm Iraqis, but it's easier said than
done."
A year ago, Wall Street analysts and their media friends
were saying that the economy was on the rebound. But Workers
World wrote about "More Black children mired in poverty" and
"It's a fact: wages are falling."
Two years ago the commercial newspapers and television
stations here depicted the Palestinians as nothing but
"terrorists." But Workers World's front-page headline reported
that "100,000 in D.C., 35,000 in San Francisco say: 'Free, free
Palestine.'"
Two years ago the mouthpieces for U.S. imperialism were
writing that the Venezuelan people were against President Hugo
Chávez. But Workers World's headline reported: "Mass
uprising defeats CIA coup in Venezuela." Chávez is still
there and the Bolivarian Revolution is moving forward.
Workers World doesn't invent the news. Nor does it have a
crystal ball. But it does look for what the big business media
suppresses. For 45 years, it has reported on popular struggles
and analyzed them from a socialist perspective. It finds the
chinks in the armor of the ruling class, and shows how the
world working class and the oppressed nations have the capacity
to bring down imperialism, scrap the profit system, and create
a just world order that runs on cooperation, not
exploitation.
You won't find that on prime time.
And we don't find checks in the mail from rich foundations
or government agencies. No surprise there.
We rely on you, our readers, to be able to keep telling the
truth that hits hard at not just war criminal Bush but at the
whole capitalist establishment. Your support keeps us
going.
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Deirdre Griswold
Editor
Reprinted from the May 13, 2004, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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