Perspectives
The Nobel War Prize
By Bill Van Auken, October 10, 2009
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, an American president who is presiding over two wars and preparing to escalate the US intervention in Afghanistan, has provoked astonishment arou...
The socialist answer to unemployment and poverty
By Jerry White, October 9, 2009
Wednesday’s lineup of tens of thousands of people seeking housing assistance in Detroit is one of those events that suddenly reveals the social reality in America that is ignored and concealed by th...
Obama rules out troop drawdown in Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, October 8, 2009
President Barack Obama will not consider any reduction in the US military commitment in Afghanistan, White House and congressional officials declared after a three-hour meeting at the White House on T...
Eight years after invasion
Washington faces deepening debacle in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, October 7, 2009
Eight years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, the Obama White House sand the Pentagon are engaged in a heated debate over whether to send another 40,000 troops in an attempt to salvage an interven...
White House-military tensions over Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, October 6, 2009
Growing tensions between sections of the military brass and the Obama administration have emerged openly in the conflict between the top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, and the W...
As US jobless toll tops 15 million
Unemployment crisis shows the failure of capitalism
By Patrick Martin, October 5, 2009
The staggering figures released Friday on the US labor market demonstrate that what has developed since the Wall Street crash one year ago is not a conjunctural downturn, but an historic assault on wo...
One year since the US bank bailout
By Barry Grey, October 3, 2009
One year ago today, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and authorizing the use of $700 billion in...
Imperialist interests drive US focus on Iran, Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, October 2, 2009
For three decades, under Democratic and Republican administrations, American imperialism has plunged ever more deeply into the Middle East and the region west, south and east of the Caspian Sea.
Sixty years after the Chinese Revolution: Lessons for the working class
By John Chan, October 1, 2009
Communist Party bureaucrats today will join hands with the representatives of global capitalism in toasting the formation of the Peoples Republic of China. These celebrations are not at variance with ...
“Cheats and Deceivers”
By Bill Van Auken, September 30, 2009
In an editorial published Sunday, the Financial Times of London joined the media onslaught against Iran, calling its rulers “cheats and deceivers” who “cannot be remotely trusted” in relation ...
The political significance of the Balmoral Estate Action Committee
By Wije Dias, September 29, 2009
The courageous step taken by tea plantation workers on the Balmoral Estate in Sri Lanka in establishing their own action committee, independent of the trade unions, has broad political significance fo...
Obama follows Bush’s modus operandi on Iran
By Peter Symonds, September 28, 2009
In a manner chillingly reminiscent of the Bush administration’s buildup to the Iraq war, top White House officials yesterday intensified the US propaganda offensive against Iran.
