US Elections & Politics
Evasions, half-truths and lies
Bush demands passage of Wall Street bailout
By Socialist Equality Party, September 25, 2008
The Socialist Equality Party emphatically rejects President George Bush’s call, in his televised speech Wednesday night, for a massive bailout of Wall Street.
Obama’s embrace of bailout wins favor on Wall Street
By Patrick Martin, September 25, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has seized upon the financial crisis to increase his support within the US financial elite by giving all-out backing to a federal bailout of Wall Street ...
SEP election meetings
The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
September 24, 2008
Between now and Election Day, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White and vice presidential candidate Bill Van Auken will speak at a series of meetings throughout the country.
Obama says bailout will postpone spending plans
By Patrick Martin, September 24, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said that the $700 billion bailout of US financial institutions now moving through Congress would force a delay in additional spending by an incoming Dem...
Obama demands deep cutbacks to pay for Wall Street bailout
By Bill Van Auken, September 23, 2008
As the Bush administration and Congress continued negotiations Monday on a trillion-dollar bailout package for Wall Street, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama delivered a speech in...
Letters from our readers
September 23, 2008
The following is a selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
No to Wall Street bailout! The socialist answer to the financial crisis
By Socialist Equality Party National Committee, September 22, 2008
The Socialist Equality Party and its presidential and vice presidential candidates, Jerome White and Bill Van Auken, unequivocally oppose the plan to bail out Wall Street with hundreds of billions of ...
Obama’s response to financial meltdown: Deception and subservience to Wall Street
By Bill Van Auken, SEP vice presidential candidate, September 19, 2008
As hundreds of millions of people in the US and around the world confront the onset of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, with all of its implications for their jobs, ...
Socialist Equality Party launches new election web site
By our reporter, September 18, 2008
The Socialist Equality Party in the United States is launching a new web site that will coordinate its election campaign and serve as a center for organizing other party activities. The web site addre...
Letters from our readers
September 18, 2008
The following is a selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
No return to the 1930s! For the public ownership of the banks!
By SEP presidential candidate Jerome White, September 17, 2008
The bankruptcy of Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers and the forced take over of Merrill Lynch are the latest demonstrations of the collapse of American capitalism. All the lies and propaganda about the...
The Palin interviews: Ignorance in the service of the ultra-right
By Bill Van Auken, September 15, 2008
ABC’s broadcast over three nights of the interview between the network’s anchorman Charles Gibson and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin served to expose the candidate&rsqu...
