US Elections & Politics
Reject Obama and McCain! Support the socialist alternative in 2008! Build the Socialist Equality Party!
By the Socialist Equality Party, September 13, 2008
The Socialist Equality Party announces today that it has selected Jerome White and Bill Van Auken as president and vice president in the 2008 US elections. White, 49, and Van Auken, 58, have decades o...
Letters from our readers
September 13, 2008
The following is a selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
National service forum at Columbia University
Obama calls for US military mobilization
By Patrick Martin, September 13, 2008
In remarks that clearly pointed toward the restoration of the military draft under an Obama administration, the Democratic candidate said Thursday night that his job as president would include demandi...
Obama denounces Bush for sending too few troops to Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, September 11, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama blasted as too little and too late the decision announced by President Bush Tuesday to withdraw 8,000 US troops from Iraq and divert combat units to Afgh...
Obama in Michigan: economic nationalism and “reformism” without reforms
By Jerry White, September 10, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama campaigned in Michigan Monday, appearing in Flint and suburban Detroit. This reporter covered the latter event at North Farmington High School, which att...
Nader in Detroit: watered-down reformism and an appeal to the Democrats
By Tom Eley, September 10, 2008
Ralph Nader brought his independent presidential campaign to Detroit Sunday night, taking questions at a press conference and then addressing an audience of about 150 at a Unitarian Church near the ca...
Obama vows not to rescind tax cuts for the rich if recession deepens
By Bill Van Auken, September 9, 2008
Backing away from one more of his meager campaign promises, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said he would reconsider his proposal to rescind the Bush administration’s tax cuts...
Letters on the US presidential elections
September 9, 2008
The following is a selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site on the US presidential elections.
McCain launches fall campaign as Obama embraces Iraq “surge”
Obama on his knees
By Patrick Martin, September 6, 2008
The events of Thursday, September 4 demonstrate the two overriding political facts of the 2008 US presidential election campaign: a Republican Party in deep political crisis and widely hated for its p...
The Sarah Palin speech:
Democrats and media cower in face of Republicans’ right-wing demagogy
By Bill Van Auken, September 5, 2008
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s Wednesday night speech to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul was greeted with rapture by the mass media. Newspapers and broadcast n...
Mass arrests of protesters at Republican National Convention
By Jerry White, September 4, 2008
Authorities have carried out a massive mobilization of federal, state and local police and military forces to cordon off the Republican National Convention from protesters opposed to the party’s...
As Republicans unveil VP candidate
Democrats silent on threat from religious right
By Bill Van Auken, September 4, 2008
The Republican National Convention entered its third day Wednesday with the acceptance speech of the party’s vice presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, as the main event.
