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Editorials
Partisans of China’s revolutionary transformation and its rise from
colonial slavery to the status of a rapidly developing, independent nation are
justifiably wary of imperialist-inspired criticisms. No matter whether China
pursues a left course, as it did in the days of Mao Zedong, or turns to the
right and allows capitalist market mechanisms to operate inside the
workers’ state, as it has done for the last three decades, the
imperialists will never be satisfied until they can thoroughly penetrate
China’s economic arteries and bend it to their will....
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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Posted Dec 15, 2005
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As another World AIDS Day passes on Dec. 1, efforts to prevent the spread of
HIV/AIDS and treat those infected continue to come up against poverty, racism,
lack of accessible medical care and assaults on women’s right to control
their own bodies....
Posted Dec 1, 2005
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General Motors, the largest auto manufacturer in the world and the pillar of
U.S. industrial capi ta l ism, has announced that it will increase its layoffs
planned for this year by 5,000, making a total of 30,000 jobs to be eliminated
and 12 plants to be closed....
Posted Nov 27, 2005
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French president Jacques Chirac, shaken to the core by the massive rebellion
of immigrant youth, has proposed to extend emergency law for three months. He is
trying to belatedly demonstrate his “law and order” position. But he
has also declared, reluctantly, that “we can build nothing lasting if we
allow racism, intolerance and abuse.”...
Posted Nov 17, 2005
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Remember the end of history? Once the USSR fell in 1990, there
wasn’t supposed to be anything but capitalism forever
after....
Posted Nov 10, 2005
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How arrogant can they get? Even while submerged in a major crisis over
lies they told to justify the dirty colonial war against Iraq, the U.S. and
British imperialists are demanding that the world take their word for good coin
when it comes to Iraq’s neighbors, Syria and Iran....
Posted Nov 3, 2005
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Engineers at Stanford University have made a big breakthrough in laser-beam
technology. Their discovery of how to switch a laser beam on and off up to 100
billion times a second is reported in the Oct. 27 issue of Nature....
Posted Oct 30, 2005
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Refco, a giant Wall Street brokerage firm, declared bankruptcy the week of
Oct. 12. On that day it was revealed that the head of the company had embezzled
$430 million in company funds....
Posted Oct 21, 2005
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The devastation in Pakistan and Kashmir after the massive earthquake there is
being called the biggest humanitarian disaster of recent times. Considering that
last year’s tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed 270,000 people, according
to Wikipedia, this means that the death toll for the recent earthquake will go
much, much higher than the official figure now, which rose to 79,000 as of Oct.
19....
Posted Oct 20, 2005
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None of it
can be hidden any more, not after Katrina. Not the blatant racism, not the
failure of the richest county in the world to have a plan to save people in a
major disaster, not the feeding frenzy of big corporations when they smell blood
in the water.
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Posted Oct 13, 2005
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Most
shocking about the current musings in the West on the situation in Indonesia is the total absence of memory about what happened on Oct. 1,
1965—exactly 40 years before the explosions in Bali....
Posted Oct 6, 2005
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The devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
has revealed in stark terms that there must be two fronts in the anti-war
movement: the fight to get the U.S. out of Iraq and the fight against
poverty, racism and national oppression at home.
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Posted Sep 22, 2005
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The last of the Israeli occupying army has left Gaza for the first time in 38
years....
Posted Sep 18, 2005
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There’s a saying that if something looks like a duck, walks like a duck
and talks like a duck, it probably IS a duck. ...
Posted Sep 17, 2005
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It is a requirement of capitalist custom in the U.S. that when a Supreme
Court justice dies, it is necessary for the entire establishment to genuflect,
praise and admire them. It does not matter if he was a racist, misogynous
reactionary, like William Rehnquist, or a liberal....
Posted Sep 10, 2005
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When the Bush administration ordered the U.S. military into Iraq, the
would-be conquerors in Washington were enveloped in an extravagant fantasy-the
vision of U.S. forces joyously being greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people....
Posted Aug 25, 2005
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Fundamentalist evangelist Pat Robertson’s call for the murder of
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is not just the impulsive mouthing off
of a right-wing crack-pot. It is a serious matter, not just for what was said,
but for who said it....
Posted Aug 25, 2005
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Horse trading is as common in Washington today as it once was in Cheyenne.
Deals are made between Democrats and Repub licans to add this provision to that
bill, or let a nomination to a powerful post go through, in exchange for some
quid pro quo.
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Posted Aug 19, 2005
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Nothing is more dangerous for the working class of the United States than the
rise of neo-fascist and KKK-type groupings. ...
Posted Aug 10, 2005
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The AFL-CIO passed a resolution on July 26 that calls for a rapid end to the
Iraq war. The resolution, put forward by the General Executive Council, is being
called a “major change of course” for the labor federation by U.S.
Labor Against the War....
Posted Aug 3, 2005
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After three months of inner struggle and delay, the Pentagon has issued a
belligerent report on China. The report, which raises the prospect of the
so-called “China threat,” is itself a threat—to China....
Posted Jul 28, 2005
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On July 15, Judge John Roberts gave the Bush administration a judicial
victory, joining a unanimous three-judge panel to rule that the prisoners of war
being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have no rights under the Geneva Conventions.
On July 19, the former lawyer, who once represented Fox Television, became
Bush’s choice for the Supreme Court....
Posted Jul 20, 2005
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The image and the message should be perfectly clear. The image is of New York
Times reporter Judith Miller being put in jail. The message? Just what is
the message when the government starts throwing journalists into prison?...
Posted Jul 14, 2005
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In the space of a few days at the end of June, the
legislatures in both Spain and Canada legalized same-sex marriage. In Spain
particularly—historically a Catholic country and one where the church
campaigned vigorously against the bill—the vote was greeted with elation
by the progressive community...
Posted Jul 10, 2005
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Sandra Day O’Connor is leaving the Supreme Court, which means the
abominable Bush will be able to pick another “justice for life.”
This has many progressive organizations horribly worried....
Posted Jul 7, 2005
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With the Bush administration threatening war on Iran, that country’s
presidential election got world attention, more than any election since the
1979 revolution that overthrew the shah and ousted the U.S. neocolonial
regime....
Posted Jul 1, 2005
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Now—exactly 41 years later to the
day that Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were brutally beaten and
executed—KKK member Edgar Ray Killen, 80 years old, was found guilty of
manslaughter for the murders. He is the only KKK member ever convicted for these
deaths, since the Mississippi courts did not bother to arrest anyone at the
time....
Posted Jun 22, 2005
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Michael
Jackson faced two trials: one in the court room and the other in the news room....
Posted Jun 14, 2005
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld journeyed to Singapore to deliver a
blunt attack on China for having the audacity, as a sovereign nation
representing one-fifth of the world’s population, to try to defend itself
against U.S. and Japanese imperialism—two of its former colonial
oppressors....
Posted Jun 9, 2005
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The Indigenous, the poor, the working people of Bolivia are speaking out
loudly for themselves, for Latin America and for much of the world when they
confront the richest 1 percent of the population, their police and army, and
their international backer: U.S. imperialism....
Posted Jun 8, 2005
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Before history is completely rewritten, it's time to review what happened in the coup that toppled Richard Nixon....
Posted Jun 1, 2005
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Well before the U.S. torture and killing of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan
became worldwide news, George W. Bush was the admitted master of prison abuse in
Texas....
Posted May 28, 2005
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The Senate’s Permanent Subcom mit tee on Investigations—a
collection of warmongers from both parties—is not looking into crime and
graft involving the U.S. government and its favorite monopolies. Instead it has
been poking around in the so-called Oil-for-Food Program, begun in
1996....
Posted May 19, 2005
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Each week the truth about Iraq comes through more clearly for those who choose to look. The U.S. occupation is brutal, criminal, killing civilians as much as combatants. The Iraqi resistance is growing and gathering more support from a population that may be war-weary but is determined to free itself from foreign rule. The equally vicious imperialist occupation of Afghanistan, which Washington tried to justify with the pretext of the post-9/11 “war on terror,” is also arousing mass opposition....
Posted May 12, 2005
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Social Security and Medicaid are under attack. These are two government
programs vital for the working class. They have one important difference. But
the defense of both programs should be at the top of the list for the entire
working class....
Posted May 4, 2005
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Across the world, progressive people stand in solidarity with Assata Shakur.
This revolutionary, a
former member of the Black Liberation Army, was shot
twice by New Jersey police officers in 1973, and then sent to prison for the
death of one of the officers....
Posted May 4, 2005
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‘Vietnam belongs to the workers.’ That was the Workers World
front-page headline following the liberation of Saigon—that electric
moment on the morning of April 30, 1975, when a tank carrying the liberation
soldiers crashed through the front gates of the Saigon presidential palace, and
the remaining occupants of the U.S. Embassy scampered onto military helicopters
to flee the Vietnamese people....
Posted Apr 27, 2005
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Two important verdicts announced within one day of each other in mid-April
expose the class injustice of the Pentagon’s legal machinery regarding the
horrific war and occupation of Iraq. ...
Posted Apr 27, 2005
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Historical forces work in mysterious ways their wonders to perform. In the
very same week and in the very same city where Cardinal Ratzinger caught the
brass ring and ascended to supreme leader of the Catholic Church, horrifying
Catholics who had hoped for a kinder, gentler figure, an equally reactionary
figure who had risen to head the Italian government after building a media
empire and fortune, Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi, was forced to resign
and prepare to submit to a new election....
Posted Apr 20, 2005
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‘Human rights abuses.’ The Carter administration raised this
phrase from a vague, demagogic political generality to a battle cry against any
government that didn’t knuckle under to the demands of the world’s
greatest violator of human rights: U.S. finance capital and its military
might.
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Posted Apr 14, 2005
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All over the world workers and oppressed peoples will scan the horizon of the
United States for signs of struggle on May Day.
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Posted Apr 14, 2005
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The pro-Pentagon propaganda machine here usually celebrates war
anniversaries, especially wars with few U.S. casualties. Yet take a look at
Google News for March 24: Yugoslavia turned up only 38 independent hits.
Thirty-four of them involved chess champion Bobby Fischer’s asylum in
Iceland. The war was almost ignored....
Posted Apr 6, 2005
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Indonesians on tiny Nias Island are suffering the brunt of another great
earthquake, an “aftershock” of the even greater one last Dec. 26
that impelled a tsunami that killed 280,000 people in the Indian Ocean region.
This one’s damage was apparently limited to Nias, as there was no major
tidal wave....
Posted Mar 30, 2005
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The tragedy that befell Terri Schiavo, her husband and her parents when, 15
years ago, she suffered brain damage that left her in a persistent vegetative
state, is real enough. According to her doctors, there can be no happy
resolution of her condition....
Posted Mar 23, 2005
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The Bush administration has shamelessly propagandized its recent wars on
Afghanistan and Iraq as “liberation”—and boasted that these
brutal acts of aggression would free the women there....
Posted Mar 23, 2005
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There is a growing anti-China undercurrent in the big-business media focusing
on the increase in Chinese exports to the U.S. These increases follow the
removal of 40-year-old textile quotas by the World Trade Organization at the end
of 2004. This anti-China campaign aims to pit workers in the U.S. against China,
based upon the alleged concern over job losses....
Posted Mar 16, 2005
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Most people on the planet are aware of the U.S. war and occupation
against Iraq. And the vast majority of the world's population are against this
brutal, illegal war. But a war of a different kind is getting very little media
attention, even though it is just as brutal. ...
Posted Mar 9, 2005
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It's the same approach the slicker money-grubbing corporations have. Hire a
few women executives and PR spokespeople at fancy salaries and then you can
better put over rapacious policies that hurt, underpay and degrade women and
workers in general. The tobacco companies did it. The drug companies followed
suit. Women, it seems, are more believable, even when they're just reading the
scripts of the sexist ruling class....
Posted Mar 9, 2005
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Has the U.S. Supreme Court suddenly decided to embrace justice? There had been no
"moral values" preachings from the White House pulpit before this ruling against
the execution of children. Fox News hadn't put their screamers on the
case. So what happened?...
Posted Mar 2, 2005
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South Africa saw a 57-percent jump in reported deaths between 1997 and 2003,
with AIDS-related deaths contributing hugely to the increase, according to a
recently issued report by a group called Statistics SA. One in five adults in
the country is living with HIV/AIDS....
Posted Feb 23, 2005
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The duplicity of Washington's position on nuclear weapons was recently
underscored by a report that, a decade and a half after the end of the Cold
War, the U.S. still deploys approximately 480 nuclear warheads in
Europe....
Posted Feb 17, 2005
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JP Morgan Chase, the second-biggest bank in the U.S., put it ever so
delicately: "[The bank] had predecessors that had customers that appear to have
used enslaved individuals."
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Posted Feb 13, 2005
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