Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HEARSE Phil
In the late 1990s McDonalds was a basket case among major transnational corporations. Sales slumped as people in Europe and the US tired of burgers and turned to the multitude of fast food alternatives, especially Tex-Mex style food in the US. The company was hit by a wave of criticism of the (…)
, by FEELEY Dianne
IT’S CLEAR THAT women can make intelligent decisions for their lives when they are supported in their goals and encouraged to consider their full range of options. This begins with reproductive freedom, but needs to include access to education and health care, the right to a decent and (…)
, by FINKEL David
THE DEMOCRATS ARE taking over Congress with what we might generously call a “minimalist reform” program. That’s not fundamentally why they were elected; the dominant political question in America, as discussed in the “Letter from the Editors” in this issue, will be Iraq and related imperial (…)
, by PALMER Bryan D.
Bryan D. Palmer, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890–1928 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007).
This is a long book about a relatively short span of time, the decade 1928–38. In the history of United States class relations, in general, (…)
, by Louis Proyect
(Second in a series of posts on “Does Socialism Have a Future?”)
Gabriel Kolko’s “After Socialism” is a bitter diatribe against socialism drawn from ideas that were at one time much more fashionable among liberal intellectuals. In his acknowledgements, he singles out Bertrand Russell, Charles (…)
, by BELLO Walden
The recent US election was a redemptive election. At a time that many throughout the world had written off the American electorate as lifeless putty in the hands of Karl Rove, it woke up to deliver the Republican Party its worse blow in the last quarter of a century. Not only independents and (…)
, by FINKEL David
It’s clear that the November 2006 election was a national referendum on the Iraq war and the Bush regime. Although Green Party candidates ran as antiwar candidates there was no “major” antiwar party. Nonetheless, voters made it clear that they repudiate the war and Bush’s leadership, which also (…)
, by BIDDLE Jennifer
Caroline Lund, a long time socialist and union activist, died on October 14, 2006 from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She was 62 years old. Jennifer Biddle met Caroline in 1995 when they did solidarity work together in San Francisco for striking Staley workers. (…)
, by WILLS Garry
The right wing in America likes to think that the United States government was, at its inception, highly religious, specifically highly Christian, and even more specifically highly biblical. That was not true of that government or any later government—until 2000, when the fiction of the past (…)
, by PERCY John
Caroline Lund, a lifelong fighter for socialism, workers’ rights and women’s liberation, died at her home in Oakland, California, on October 14, aged 62. She will be sorely missed by her friends and comrades in the US and around the world, especially her lifelong partner and comrade Barry (…)
, by SOLOMON Norman
Moments after hearing about North Korea’s nuclear test, I thought of Albert Einstein’s statement that “there is no secret and there is no defence; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world”.
San Francisco,
During (…)
, by BRENNER “Bob” Robert P. , SLAUGHTER Jane
As politicians in Washington debate the future of the U.S. auto industry, we are reposting this article from the September 2006 issue of Labor Notes. It spells out how the Big 3 got into the mess they are in today, and what the UAW—together with the rest of the labor movement—needs to do to get (…)
, by FEELEY Dianne
It’s clear that women can make intelligent decisions for their lives when they are supported in their goals and encouraged to consider their full range of options. This begins with reproductive freedom, but needs to include access to education and health care, the right to a decent and (…)
, by NESS Immanuel
Testifying before the Senate immigration hearings in early July, Mayor Michael Bloomberg affirmed that undocumented immigrants have become indispensable to the economy of New York City: “Although they broke the law by illegally crossing our borders or overstaying their visas, and our businesses (…)
, by DUBINSKY Joanna
It is no exaggeration to call the ongoing situation in New Orleans a war. When I drive around the city, I see mile after mile after mile of flooded houses—with hardly a sign of life—their brown flood lines still clearly visible, many with windows and doors ajar, some with mounds of gutted walls (…)
, by DAVIS Mike, WEISSMAN Suzi
Suzi Weissman: On tonight’s program we continue looking at Katrina’s catastrophe—on the ground and in the larger implications for the ’state of the state.’ The disaster exposed extreme cynicism, incompetence and sheer racism previously hidden or ignored.
We begin with Mike Davis, who returned (…)
, by DUBINSKY Joanna, GRIFFIN Shana
“I’M NOT INTERESTED in developing an action plan to rebuild/organize a people’s agenda in New Orleans without a gender analysis and a demand for community accountability.”
It had been two weeks since Katrina’s floodwaters and the government’s indifference was unleashed on the city of New (…)
, by MIAH Malik
IT TURNS OUT that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
The August 29 hurricane showed the world that the Bush administration’s so-called (…)
, by CALDWELL Robert Jr
Most residents of metro New Orleans were unaware of the potential destruction of Katrina until Saturday August 28, less than 48 hours before it struck. In New Orleans violent tropical storms are routine and hurricanes are a seasonal reminder of the power of “mother nature.” As a resident of the (…)
, by Against the Current
The Editors
ARE THERE WORDS to describe the racism, the stupidity, the sheer overwhelming cynicism of the Bush gang’s “response” to the Gulf Coast holocaust? We can’t think of any, and we won’t even try to find them. Suffice it to say that four years after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and, in (…)
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