Tea Party

Why the New York Times is worried

Most progressive activists in the United States probably know about the reactionary, racist Koch brothers. But one has to wonder…

February 7, 2014

Southern Workers Assembly vs. Tea Party

From a 2013 WWP Conference talk by Ben C. While the Democratic National Convention was unfolding in Charlotte, N.C., during…

December 19, 2013

Shutdown crisis set back Tea Party, but mass struggle crucial to fight reaction and austerity

The government shutdown/debt-ceiling crisis evolved out of a civil war within the Republican Party between right-wing conservatives and the ultra-right…

October 23, 2013

Political roots of the shutdown/debt-ceiling crisis

Oct. 15 — Articles in the capitalist press say that big business is losing its sway with the Republican Party.…

October 16, 2013

Gov’t shutdown a workers’ lockout

The following is excerpted from a talk given by Steve Millies at a Oct. 4 Workers World Party meeting in…

October 9, 2013

Shutdown. Who suffers?

Unable or unwilling to reach an agreement to extend government spending, the U.S. Congress has provoked a government shutdown. It…

October 2, 2013

Workers’ solidarity with immigrants

While many powerful economic and political issues are currently driving immigration policy in this country, an outstanding one is racism.…

August 21, 2013

IRS: the real scandal

Republican politicians and reactionary media outlets have joined the ultrarightist Tea Party types in an all-out attack on the Internal…

May 23, 2013

Student gathering to declare: ‘Retaking our schools, remaking our society!’

The North Carolina Student Power Union will convene a statewide organizing conference in Raleigh, N.C., Feb. 16 under the banner…

February 11, 2013