Obama

Prisoner hunger strikes help to win major victory to end solitary confinement

Oakland, Calif. -- The Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSSC) held a press conference Sept. 1 to announce that a…

September 4, 2015

Obama’s Alaska trip motivated by Big Oil and war threats

With great fanfare, while making an unprecedented presidential trip to Alaska on Aug. 31, President Barack Obama “renamed” the tallest…

September 3, 2015

Why U.S. ruling class wants an Iran deal

Since the 18-month season of bourgeois national elections in the United States has already started, it’s not surprising that an…

September 2, 2015

New Orleans protest: ‘Not one more deportation!’

Chanting “Sin papeles, sin miedo/Without papers, without fear,” 800 people rallied behind calls to “End detention” and “Ni una más…

July 15, 2015

Casualties mount in U.S. proxy war in Yemen

Despite daily airstrikes by Saudi Arabia since March 26, the Ansurallah (Houthis) fighters seized the presidential palace in the southern…

April 12, 2015

ISIS, Netanyahu, Iran – U.S. imperialist plans unravel

Two deeply related issues that are of concern to anti-imperialists have been stirring U.S. capitalist politics. The first is the…

March 26, 2015

Lo que Obama omitió

Editorial Workers World-Mundo Obrero del 26 de enero El "Estado de la Unión" es el discurso presidencial anual que supuestamente…

February 3, 2015

What Obama left out

The “State of the Union” is the annual presidential speech that is supposed to report on how things are going…

January 26, 2015

U.S. to double troops in Iraq

President Barack Obama more than doubled U.S. participation in the new war on Iraq on Nov. 7 by ordering an…

November 16, 2014

Why Obama’s ‘war on ISIS’ must be opposed

President Barack Obama announced Sept.10 that the U.S. military would build an international coalition to make “war on the Islamic…

September 16, 2014