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20 August 2008
On
eve of Democratic convention, Obama advances agenda of global
militarism
19 August 2008
Obama,
McCain vie for support of Christian right
15 August 2008
Gunman
murders Arkansas Democratic Party chairman
13 August 2008
After
jailing, Detroit mayor faces strong pressure to resign
5 August 2008
The
making and marketing of Barack Obama: Image and identity in US
politics
4 August 2008
Mounting
questions over US anthrax probe and scientist's alleged suicide
2 August 2008
Anthrax
scientist and suspect an apparent suicide
California: Schwarzenegger slashes wages and social
programs, fires state workers
29 July 2008
Obama
backs long-term US military presence in Iraq
25 July 2008
Obama
promotes wider war in Afghanistan: Another presidential race
between pro-war candidates
21 July 2008
The
Obama candidacy and the new consensus on Afghanistan
18 July 2008
"Equality is not good"
Barney Frank and the putrefaction of American liberalism
17 July 2008
US:
Amid surging prices, Fed raises specter of renewed class struggle
16 July 2008
Obama
outlines policy of endless war
12 July 2008
Jesse
Jackson's self-criticism and the state of American politics
10 July 2008
Obama
joins Senate vote to legitimize Bush's domestic spying operation
High-level panel urges new law to regulate how US
goes to war
9 July 2008
Obama's
swing to right sparks warnings from "left" backers
7 July 2008
Racist,
reactionary and defender of dictatorships: Former Senator Jesse
Helms dead at 86
4 July 2008
Obama
continues lurch to the right on Iraq war and militarism
Letters on Obama's "patriotism tour"
3 July 2008
Bush
administration settles Hatfill suit, buries anthrax investigation
2 July 2008
Obama's
patriotism tour: the last refuge of a Democratic scoundrel
30 June 2008
The need for socialist politics in the film and television
industry
Screen Actors Guild negotiations continue in secret on eve of
contract expiration
28 June 2008
European
press leaks US military reports on nuclear weapons safety
27 June 2008
Bush
administration stacked Justice Department with right-wingers
26 June 2008
Obama
attacks US Supreme Court decision barring death penalty for child
rape
25 June 2008
McCain
adviser suggests that Republican campaign would benefit from
another 9/11 attack
23 June 2008
Obama
backs House Democrats' cave-in on Bush spying bill
21 June 2008
US:
Democratic Congress approves war funding, legalizes domestic
spying
20 June 2008
Obama
speaks in Detroit: rhetoric versus reality
19 June 2008
Populism and plutocracy: Obama speaks to the Wall
Street Journal
18 June 2008
McCain
and Vietnam: Revising history to pave the way for new wars
14 June 2008
Antonin
Scalia and police-state rule
Kucinich, the Democrats and the impeachment of Bush
13 June 2008
Obama
campaign aide controversies underscore big business control of
Democratic Party
12 June 2008
House
Democrats kill resolution to impeach Bush
11 June 2008
At
AIPAC, Obama outlines policy shift to defend US, Israeli interests
9 June 2008
Obama,
Clinton and identity politics
7 June 2008
US
Air Force purge: Growing tensions within a militarized state
Senate report on Bush war lies: Another cover-up of
war crimes
5 June 2008
Obama
clinches Democratic presidential nomination
4 June 2008
US:
Republicans prepare to play terror card in 2008 election
2 June 2008
Decision on Michigan, Florida delegates Democratic Party establishment lines up behind Obama
31 May 2008
The
political lessons of the American Axle strike
30 May 2008
Ex-Bush
spokesman: White House fed war propaganda to a "complicit"
media
29 May 2008
Ex-Bush
spokesman: White House fed war propaganda to a "complicit"
media
28 May 2008
The
politics of provocation: Clinton, Obama and the American media
26 May 2008
Criminal investigation of Halliburton's Nigerian operation
widens
Evidence of corruption during Cheney's tenure
24 May 2008
US
Secretary of State Rice defends torture at Google event
23 May 2008
FBI
files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
22 May 2008
Obama
gains majority of elected Democratic Party delegates
Reject UAW sellout at American Axle! Mobilize auto
workers against attacks on jobs and wages!
17 May 2008
Calling
Pelosi's bluff, Republicans temporarily block war-funding bill
16 May 2008
Empty
rhetoric from Obama on American Axle strike
15 May 2008
Bush
Middle East trip highlights crisis of US policy
Republicans lose Mississippi House seat despite anti-Obama
campaign
Clinton wins West Virginia primary but Obama nears
nomination
13 May 2008
Congressional
Democrats plan three-stage charade to pass Iraq war funds
12 May 2008
ISSE
meeting in Delaware: The financial crisis and the threat of another
Great Depression
10 May 2008
Tensions
rise in Democratic contest as Obama nears nomination
8 May 2008
SEP meeting in New York City
The world crisis and the 2008 elections: a socialist perspective
7 May 2008
Obama
builds lead over Clinton after North Carolina, Indiana primaries
6 May 2008
Bush,
Democrats seek to fund Iraq war into next administration
5 May 2008
Democratic
candidates agree on expanded US military aggression in the Middle
East
2 May 2008
US
dockworkers' union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest
Iraq war
San Diego State University ISSE to show Tsar to
Lenin
1 May 2008
Obama
repudiates Reverend Wright in bid for support from the political
establishment
30 April 2008
As
gas prices and oil profits soar, Bush promotes giveaways to corporations
29 April 2008
Obama
vows to back Bush's war commander
26 April 2008
The
Pennsylvania primary and the crisis of the Democratic Party
23 April 2008
Clinton
extends Democratic presidential contest with victory in Pennsylvania
primary
22 April 2008
In run-up to Democratic Party primary
Western Pennsylvania workers speak on struggling economy
18 April 2008
Obama-Clinton
debate: A whiff of McCarthyism as media pushes Democratic campaign
to the right
17 April 2008
The
Obama "mistake": Breaking the taboo on discussing class
in America
14 April 2008
US
media, Clinton assail Obama for "bitter" truth
12 April 2008
Top
Bush aides directed torture from the White House
Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton and the corporate domination
of the Democratic Party
WSWS writer Jerry White speaks on American Axle strike
8 April 2008
The
Clintons cash in: Wealth and American politics
7 April 2008
Forty
years on, some lessons from the life--and death--of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
1 April 2008
Bush
housing secretary resigns amid mounting corruption charges
29 March 2008
Presidential candidates speak on housing and credit
crises
Clinton, Obama, McCain defer to Wall Street
28 March 2008
Why
the Clintons' profiting off near-slavery is not a campaign issue
25 March 2008
Detroit
mayor charged on eight criminal counts
ISSE meetings in US
Five years since the invasion of Iraq: War, the economic crisis,
and the 2008 elections
24 March 2008
NY Times article questions
official explanation of sex probe that forced New York governor
to resign
22 March 2008
Bush
administration illegally examined Obama passport file
Bush, McCain "gaffes" on Iran echo Iraq
war lies
20 March 2008
Race,
class and the politics of the Obama campaign
Mobilize auto workers behind the American Axle strike
19 March 2008
Five
years after the invasion of Iraq: A debacle for US imperialism
15 March 2008
House
Democrats pass new spy bill without telecom immunity
14 March 2008
Democratic
Party divisions deepen as Obama parades military support
13 March 2008
New
York Governor Eliot Spitzer forced to resign in sex scandal
12 March 2008
Politically
directed dragnet snares New York Governor Spitzer
11 March 2008
New
York City Democratic politician and "labor" leader
pleads guilty to corruption charges
10 March 2008
Clinton's
national security campaign and Obama's political dilemma
Democrats win congressional seat of former House Speaker
Hastert
8 March 2008
Democratic
politicians rage against US Air Force contract with Airbus
6 March 2008
Clinton
victories in Ohio, Texas intensify divisions in Democratic Party
5 March 2008
New
Jersey Governor demands draconian budget cuts
28 February 2008
Obama,
Clinton debate in Ohio: What accounts for the bitter struggle
within the Democratic Party?
27 February 2008
The New York Times and the 2008 elections:
What the McCain "exposé" reveals
25 February 2008
Ralph
Nader announces 2008 presidential campaign
US trade unions shift behind Obama
22 February 2008
In
Texas debate, Obama counters Clinton attack by asserting his
readiness to use military force
US satellite strike escalates military space race
21 February 2008
Obama's
Texas speech: Populist appeals with reassurances to big business
20 February 2008
Obama
defeats Clinton by wide margin in Wisconsin primary
19 February 2008
Washington Post criticizes populist rhetoric
A shot across the bow against Barack Obama
18 February 2008
Obama,
Clinton admit primaries may not settle nomination fight
16 February 2008
Bush
defends torture
Bush approves shoot-down of satellite by Navy missile
cruiser
15 February 2008
The "circularity" of hope: The Nation
endorses Barack Obama
Congress grills baseball star Roger Clemens
WSWS arts editor speaks in Los Angeles on implications
of screen writers' strike
14 February 2008
The
two faces of Barack Obama
US writers vote to end 100-day strike
13 February 2008
Obama
sweeps Potomac primaries, deepening Clinton's crisis
Militarism,
hypocrisy, and the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton speaks to
students in San Diego
12 February 2008
Clinton
campaign in crisis after Obama sweeps five weekend contests
11 February 2008
US
film and television writers to vote on end to strike
9 February 2008
Romney
withdraws, ensuring McCain the Republican presidential nomination
Democrats overwhelmingly vote to pass Bush's economic
stimulus bill
Film and television writers should reject the contract
deal
Striking writer speaks to the WSWS
7 February 2008
After
"Super Tuesday," dead heat in contest for Democratic
presidential nomination
6 February 2008
"Super
Tuesday" primaries leave Democratic presidential contest
unresolved
5 February 2008
Bush
budget: programs slashed to pay for tax cuts and war
On eve of "Super Tuesday" primaries, Wall
Street casts the money ballot
Grave dangers in the film and television writers strike
WSWS speaks to striking writers
4 February 2008
US
political establishment lines up behind Barack Obama
1 February 2008
Bush
rejects congressional ban on permanent bases in Iraq
Five more Republicans join exodus from House of Representatives
31 January 2008
McCain
leads race for Republican presidential nomination after Florida
vote
30 January 2008
Once
again, the fundamental questions in the writers' strike
29 January 2008
Bush's
last State of the Union speech overshadowed by deepening crisis
28 January 2008
Obama
wins South Carolina Democratic presidential primary
25 January 2008
The
film and television writers' strike: the dead-end of the trade
union perspective
24 January 2008
NATO
must prepare for nuclear first strike, report urges
23 January 2008
Democrats
squabble but offer no solution to war and economic crisis
22 January 2008
Anti-war
"Lefts" embrace ultra-right Republican candidate Ron
Paul
21 January 2008
US
presidential nomination campaigns remain deadlocked after January
19 votes
Media, employers use Directors Guild deal as a battering
ram against striking writers
18 January 2008
As
Wall Street posts sharp losses, Washington promotes "stimulus
package"
17 January 2008
Michigan
primary vote shows political impact of US slide into recession
NBC excludes Kucinich from debate: a gross violation
of democratic rights
16 January 2008
A
comment: What will be the impact of the writers' strike on the
writers themselves?
15 January 2008
US
film studios and television networks announce layoffs and cutbacks
California: Schwarzenegger administration presents
austerity budget
14 January 2008
Nevada
teachers union challenges Democratic caucus rules
Film and television writers plan "Strike TV"
Internet programming
12 January 2008
US
Federal Reserve chairman warns of recession danger, promises
more rate cuts
Republican candidates deny recession, hail Iraq war
as "success"
11 January 2008
Notes on the political and economic crisis of the
world capitalist system and the perspective and tasks of the
Socialist Equality Party
By David North
The
US elections: In whose interest is the campaign for "bipartisan
unity"?
10 January 2008
Film
and television writers' strike: picketing resumes and so does
the political discussion
9 January 2008
New
Hampshire primary foreshadows protracted contest for US presidential
nominations
8 January 2008
A
warning to the American people: "Thinking the unthinkable"
at the Democratic presidential debate
Declassified letter exposes Democratic Party complicity
in CIA torture
US judge imposes gag order against retired auto workers
in UAW-GM case
7 January 2008
New
Hampshire debates: Democrats and Republicans embrace US militarism
5 January 2008
Obama,
Huckabee finish first in Iowa Democratic, Republican caucuses
California
prepares massive cuts in response to budget crisis and economic
woes
A socialist perspective for the film and television
writers strike
4 January 2008
US
Justice Department opens criminal investigation into CIA tape
destruction
3 January 2008
New York Times to feature
neo-conservative war advocate William Kristol as op-ed columnist
"Antiwar" candidate Kucinich backs leading
Democrat in Iowa primary
2 January 2008
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses
Corporate money, media manipulation and the US elections
31 December 2007
US
presidential candidates pledge support to Pakistani dictator
24 December 2007
A criminal conspiracy
White House, CIA hid torture tapes from 9/11 Commission
An analysis of the 9/11 Commission memo on interrogation
tapes
FBI's Hoover proposed internment of 12,000 "disloyal"
Americans in 1950
Blueprint for police-state rule
21 December 2007
One
year of the Democratic 110th Congress: A record of duplicity,
cowardice and political reaction
Film and television writers confront big political
and cultural issues
19 December 2007
Congress
votes to fund war, bows to Bush on domestic policy
18 December 2007
Lieberman's
endorsement of McCain exposes bipartisan support for war
17 December 2007
Bush
administration moves to block inquiries into CIA's destruction
of torture tapes
Impasse in writers' strike poses need for new political
struggle
14 December 2007
Bush
administration isolated at Bali climate conference
12 December 2007
CIA
director testifies behind closed doors on destroyed tapes
Attorneys demand preservation of evidence of detainee
torture
11 December 2007
Democrats
propose deal to extend Iraq war funding
New revelation regarding CIA destruction of torture
tapes
Former CIA agent acknowledges use of water-boarding in interrogations
TV
celebrity Oprah stumps for Barack Obama
10 December 2007
More revelations concerning CIA destruction of torture
tapes
Both parties supported US interrogation program
8 December 2007
CIA
destroyed torture tapes
7 December 2007
US
presidential campaign: Romney denounces secularism in bid for
Christian fundamentalist backing
6 December 2007
Following intelligence report exposing administration's
lies
Bush continues threats against Iran
One month of the US film and television writers' strike
1 December 2007
After
four weeks: studios and networks offer striking writers a "massive
rollback"
30 November 2007
Meetings
in US to commemorate 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
28 November 2007
Striking
writers are determined, wary as contract negotiations restart
26 November 2007
Another
slap in the face to antiwar voters: Democrats embrace former
Iraq commander
22 November 2007
American liberalism and the Iraq War: The New York
Times gives its blessing to Bush "surge"
Striking writers protest in Hollywood
19 November 2007
Political
lessons of the UAW contract betrayal
Studios and striking writers to resume negotiations
November 26
As Broadway stagehand talks resume
IATSE president blasts writers' strike
17 November 2007
Democratic
presidential debate: Right-wing consensus boosts Hillary Clinton
Writers' strike ends its second week
Mr. Edwards goes to the picket line
16 November 2007
Congressional
Democrats resume phony "antiwar" votes
Multi-millionaire "populist" to appear on
writers' picket line
Who is John Edwards?
Pickets at CBS discuss perspectives for writers' strike
15 November 2007
Striking
television writers discuss political issues with the WSWS
14 November 2007
Congressional
report puts cost of US wars at $1.6 trillion
Film and television celebrities express support for
striking writers
13 November 2007
Increasing
bitterness in film and television writers strike
12 November 2007
Sixty-nine percent of those polled in Los Angeles
support walkout
Writers strike enters second week
Stagehands shut down Broadway over producers' takeaways
Ford Rouge workers denounce UAW sellout
10 November 2007
Senate
confirms Mukasey as attorney general
Bernard Kerik indicted on federal fraud, conspiracy
charges
9 November 2007
Support
for writers' strike outrages Hollywood elite
Congress proposes $50 billion more in Iraq war funding
Democrats scuttle Cheney impeachment measure: fraud
turns into farce
8 November 2007
The
Democratic Party candidates and the writers' strike
Writers and supporters speak out in Los Angeles and
New York City
Off-year elections in US show continued hostility
to Bush, Republicans
7 November 2007
One
year since the 2006 election: The Democratic Congress and the
war in Iraq
Bipartisan support for authoritarian measures Democratic
senator defends vote for Bush's attorney general nominee
Writers' strike in its second day More strikers speak
with the WSWS
6 November 2007
US
film and television writers launch their struggle
Interviews with striking writers and supporters
US auto workers denounce UAW betrayal at Ford
"The union is so intertwined with the company they are
giving away the whole store"
5 November 2007
Vote
"no" on UAW betrayal at Ford! Elect rank-and-file committees
for contract fight!
Determined, angry mood among US film and television
writers
3 November 2007
Democrats
cave in on torture: Key senators back attorney general nominee
"The UAW knew what was coming, but they got a
good deal out of it for themselves." Chrysler
workers react to job cuts, denounce union betrayal
US film and television writers will walk out Monday
2 November 2007
Bitter
outcome of UAW contract betrayal: Chrysler to cut 12,000 more
jobs
Broader issues facing US film and television writers
31 October 2007
Democrats
debate in the shadow of US war threats against Iran
Ford and UAW press for deeper concessions from US
auto workers
30 October 2007
The New York Times and Bush's threat of World
War III
California wildfire victims speak to the WSWS
"We've lost everything--we only have the clothes on our
back"
International Students for Social Equality meetings
in the US
Racing toward disaster: War, inequality and the crisis of American
democracy
29 October 2007
Tens of thousands march in US cities Antiwar protest organizers promote Democratic Party
Firefighting shortages played role in California wild
fire damage
UAW pushes through Chrysler betrayal in face of strong
rank-and-file opposition
27 October 2007
Democrats,
Republicans back Bush war provocations against Iran
Devastation from California wildfires comes into focus
as some blazes are contained
Strong opposition at final Chrysler plant voting on
UAW contract
26 October 2007
How
the UAW pushed through its sellout at Chrysler
US
Senate confirms right-wing judge to federal appeals court
25 October 2007
The
California wildfires and the American social crisis
Rep. Pete Stark apologizes to Bush: Another abject
climbdown by the Democrats
UAW moves to prevent defeat of Chrysler contract
24 October 2007
Wildfires engulf Southern California
As many as 1 million flee as almost 500,000 acres burn
UAW defends 50 percent wage cut for Chrysler workers
Republican presidential candidates appeal to an ever-narrower
right-wing base
23 October 2007
As contract faces rejection
UAW conspires with Chrysler to impose agreement
Letters on US auto workers' struggle
22 October 2007
More
Chrysler locals reject UAW contract betrayal
"We are sick of being lied to by the union"
Detroit autoworkers speak out against
UAW-Chrysler contract
20 October 2007
Large UAW local votes 80 percent to reject Chrysler sellout faces strong rank-and-file opposition
Senate hearings on Mukasey nomination
"Democrats prepares to install defender of torture, illegal
spying as attorney general
19 October 2007
Bush
invokes threat of "World War III"
Vote
'no' on UAW sellout at Chrysler! Elect rank-and-file committees
for contract fight!
18 October 2007
UAW
deal opens door for Chrysler carve-up
16 October 2007
Thirty
years since the assassination of Tom Henehan
The political campaign to bring Tom Henehan's killers
to justice
General Motors tells Wall Street: UAW deal will save
billions
15 October 2007
An anti-democratic tirade
Former US commander blames "partisan" politics and
"agenda-driven" media for Iraq debacle
House Speaker Pelosi lashes out at antiwar protesters
13 October 2007
Nobel
Prize for Al Gore: "Old Europe" fires back at the Bush
administration
12 October 2007
Bush
condemns House vote on Armenian genocide
The middle-class "left" and the UAW-GM contract
11 October 2007
UAW
stages six-hour strike to push through contract betrayal at Chrysler
Chrysler strikers speak: "It's time workers unite
on a global basis, the same way the companies do"
Criticized over war threat against Iran, Hillary Clinton
sees conspiracy
10 October 2007
As
General Motors contract vote proceeds, UAW prepares deeper concessions
at Chrysler
WSWS replies to UAW local president on GM contract
9 October 2007
Jim Lawrence, GM worker and 2004 SEP vice presidential
candidate, speaks on UAW-GM contract
"Workers can no longer afford this system"
8 October 2007
Scandals,
retirements decimate congressional Republicans
6 October 2007
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Early
GM contract vote shows widespread opposition to UAW sellout
5 October 2007
Two-tier
wage in UAW-GM contract means drastic pay cuts for US workers
4 October 2007
Retiring
military chief declares: American people can't vote to end Iraq
war
Opposition to UAW-GM deal as workers vote on contract
UAW officials threaten Socialist Equality Party members6
3 October 2007
Michigan budget deadlock broken through cutbacks,
tax increases
$435 million in additional cuts still threatened
Letters on the General Motors contract
2 October 2007
UAW-GM
deal means more plant closings
1 October 2007
Vote 'no' on UAW sellout at GM!
Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight!
Strong rank-and-file opposition to UAW sellout evident
at local meetings
29 September 2007
The
Bush-Aznar tapes: glimpse of a gangster preparing for war
UAW local presidents ratify historic betrayal of US
auto workers
28 September 2007
Democratic
presidential candidates: US troops could stay in Iraq until 2013
Details of General Motors contract underscore UAW
betrayal
General Motors worker: "The UAW doesn't lose,
but the workers do"
State of Michigan faces government shutdown
Legislators debate massive cuts
27 September 2007
Total
surrender by US auto union
The New York Times and Ahmadinejad's appearance
at Columbia University
AFL-CIO
leaders pledge $200 million to Democratic Party campaigns
26 September 2007
As impact of walkout spreads
GM strikers confront intransigence of US auto giant
General Motors workers oppose threats to retiree health
care, jobs
Bush
at the UN: a war criminal lectures the world on "human rights"
25 September 2007
US
auto workers shut down General Motors
GM workers in Detroit voice frustration at UAW leadership
New York Times public editor
repudiates MoveOn.org ad on General Petraeus
22 September 2007
US
Senate censure of MoveOn.org: An attack on free speech in the
service of militarism
New York Times praises
Bush nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey
20 September 2007
Media,
Democrats silent on police attack on University of Florida student
19 September 2007
Democrats
pack in their antiwar charade
ISSE condemns police assault on University of Florida
student
From
the horse's mouth: Greenspan says Iraq war was for oil
18 September 2007
Democrats
back Bush's new pick for attorney general
17 September 2007
A
deafening silence on report of one million Iraqis killed under
US occupation
Wesley Clark gives a glimpse of the future
A Democratic general's prescription for winning "the next
war"
Washington, DC: Organizers seek to subordinate September
15 antiwar protest to Democrats
DC antiwar protesters: Democrats and Republicans are
"two sides of same coin"
14 September 2007
Bush
calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq in nationally
televised address
13 September 2007
Democrats
prostrate as Bush, generals vow Iraq war will continue for years
12 September 2007
US
congressional hearings reveal consensus that Iraq war will continue
US auto union prepares to hand over historic concessions
California budget deadlock broken as Democrats accede
to right-wing demands
11 September 2007
Gen. Petraeus testifies before Congress
Democrats arrest protesters, praise US commander in Iraq
10 September 2007
US
Congressional hearings to set stage for continued war in Iraq
7 September 2007
As
congressional debate opens, US escalates military operations
in northern Iraq
6 September 2007
Time magazine calls for "universal national
service"
New push for military draft in US
Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 5: Mississippi Gulf Coast--Casinos thrive while homeowners
languish
5 September 2007
US
Congress reconvenes for phony debate on Iraq war
Labor
Day in America: Two unions endorse Edwards, one spews anti-Mexican
poison
An
interview with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan
3 September 2007
US:
Right-wing campaign launched to counter opposition to Iraq war
Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 4: The Katrina gold rush--profiteering and the Gulf Opportunity
Zone
1 September 2007
Bush
rejects "bailout" for homeowners, vows aid to Wall
Street
The
affair of US Senator Craig: Media sensationalism and political
hypocrisy
Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 3: New Orleans levees still not rebuilt
31 August 2007
New Orleans: a scene of devastation and blight
Hurricane Katrina two years on--Part 2
30 August 2007
White
House wants $50 billion more for Iraq war
Join the International Students for Social Equality!
Bush visits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary: returning
to the scene of the crime
Hurricane Katrina's aftermath: from natural disaster
to national humiliation
29 August 2007
Hurricane Katrina two years on
Part 1: New Orleans--A city in social and economic distress
Letters
on President Bush's history lesson
28 August 2007
US
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigns
27 August 2007
California
Republicans seek to rig 2008 presidential vote
Letters on Cindy Sheehan and the Nation
24 August 2007
President
Bush's history lesson
CIA 9/11 "accountability" report released:
A whitewash that only raises more questions
23 August 2007
The Nation urges Cindy Sheehan not to run for
Congress against Nancy Pelosi
22 August 2007
US
Attorney General Gonzales to wield new death penalty authority
21 August 2007
Leading
Democratic presidential candidates disavow rapid Iraq withdrawal
20 August 2007
Details
emerge of vast scope of US domestic spying law
18 August 2007
New York Times on Iran:
Neo-colonialism with a liberal twist
17 August 2007
A
travesty of justice: Jose Padilla found guilty
US federal officials cover up deadly conditions in
Utah mine
15 August 2007
Bush's
war czar floats call for military draft
New York Times defends
military escalation in Iraq
14 August 2007
Bush
political aide Karl Rove resigns
11 August 2007
Four days after Utah mine collapse
Three miners killed in Indiana
9 August 2007
Hope
dwindling for trapped Utah miners
8 August 2007
The
Utah mine disaster: A tragic consequence of government-industry
collusion
7 August 2007
Red
Cross confirms Bush administration, CIA used torture in interrogations
6 August 2007
Congress
authorizes vast expansion of domestic spying
4 August 2007
The
Minnesota bridge collapse: One more indictment of the profit
system
2 August 2007
Dozens
missing, four confirmed dead in Minnesota bridge collapse
Obama calls for US attack on Pakistan in warmongering
address
31 July 2007
On
Cindy Sheehan and impeachment: a reply to a Stalinist critic
30 July 2007
US officials tell New York
Times
Vast data mining programs behind 2004 dispute within Bush administration
over domestic spying
28 July 2007
Standoff
between White House and Congress over US attorney purge, domestic
spying intensifies
27 July 2007
The
motives behind the Bush administration's latest terror scare
The political meaning of the conflict between Cindy
Sheehan and the Democratic Party
26 July 2007
US
Congressional committee approves contempt citations against White
House aides
Charges dropped against New Orleans doctor in Katrina
hospital deaths
25 July 2007
Bush
delivers rant on Iraq to military audience as poll numbers plummet
Democrats
conceal pro-war policy in South Carolina debate
Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan arrested at Democratic
Congressman's office
24 July 2007
Bush
orders seizure of assets from those threatening Iraq "stabilization
efforts"
23 July 2007
US
generals call for extension of Iraq war
21 July 2007
"Executive privilege" claim in US attorneys'
case
White House asserts sweeping power to defy the law
20 July 2007
Democrats
halt Senate debate on Iraq war
19 July 2007
Bush administration releases report on terror threat
A new pretext for American militarism and domestic repression
18 July 2007
Bush
prepares new Iraq escalation as congressional Democrats blather
on
US: Public television airs discussion on presidential
impeachment
17 July 2007
Former
surgeon general describes Bush administration's interference
on science and health issues
16 July 2007
Bush's
assertion of executive power: The logic of presidential-military
dictatorship
13 July 2007
White House press conference
Bush rejects any US military pullback in Iraq
US attorneys firing probe
White House invokes broad executive privilege claims to block
congressional testimony
12 July 2007
Democrats,
White House agree: Iraq war will rage on regardless of Senate
debate
US Homeland Security official has "gut feeling"
on terrorist attacks
10 July 2007
As Congress reconvenes
Democrats unveil new plan to "shift mission" in Iraq
US Social Forum in Atlanta: Identity politics and
appeals to the Democrats
9 July 2007
The New York Times and the crisis of American
imperialism in Iraq
6 July 2007
A
Fourth of July lesson: Bush hails US war to crush Iraqi independence
5 July 2007
Obama raises $32.5 million in three months
Record big business donations flow into 2008 US presidential
campaign coffers
4 July 2007
The
freeing of Lewis Libby: Government criminality and the class
nature of American "justice"
The
July 4th holiday and the state of US democracy
Global survey finds growing opposition to US foreign
policy
3 July 2007
Bush
commutes prison sentence of convicted perjurer and Iraq war conspirator
I. Lewis Libby
29 June 2007
Former
EPA head defends US government lies about post-9/11 safety conditions
28 June 2007
CIA
documents point to massive and ongoing government criminality
Decisions on campaign finance, speech and religion
US Supreme Court rulings mark a swing to the right
Antiwar
coalition attempts to prop up Democratic Party: United for Peace
and Justice holds conference in Chicago
27 June 2007
Two
Republican senators attack Bush's "surge" in Iraq
26 June 2007
White
House, Democrats reported in "compromise" talks on
Iraqi partition
25 June 2007
Letters on "Why the Nation remains silent
on Cindy Sheehan's departure from the Democratic Party"
23 June 2007
The
secret government of Dick Cheney: US vice president claims to
be outside the law
CIA
to release 1970s documents on agency's crimes
21 June 2007
An "independent" voice of Wall Street
Billionaire New York mayor may run in US presidential campaign
Religious backwardness trumps science as Bush vetoes
stem cell bill
20 June 2007
Washington Post's Richard
Cohen offers "liberal" case for Lewis Libby's freedom
Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan's
departure from the Democratic Party--Part three
19 June 2007
Spate of antidemocratic rulings by US Supreme Court
Right-wing majority consolidated
Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan's
departure from the Democratic Party--Part two
Letters and a reply on the Kucinich presidential campaign
18 June 2007
Why the Nation remains silent on Cindy Sheehan's
departure from the Democratic Party--Part one
16 June 2007
Senator
Reid's remarks on US generals prompt right-wing furor
Judge orders former Cheney aide Lewis Libby to begin
serving prison sentence
The struggle against war demands a break with the
Democratic Party
The ISO and the dead-end of protest politics
15 June 2007
US:
New polls reveal mass opposition to Democrats and Republicans
14 June 2007
Democrats
subpoena former White House officials in probe of US attorney
firings
Statue unveiling in Washington:
Bush, Democrats resurrect anticommunism in service of US "war
on terror"
13 June 2007
Senator
Lieberman calls for US military attack on Iran
12 June 2007
Senate
Democrats fail in slap against Bush attorney general
11 June 2007
Top
US general ousted in Pentagon shakeup
Hillary Clinton in Detroit: Democrat preaches American
nationalism to union bureaucracy
7 June 2007
Republican
presidential candidates back nuclear strike against Iran
Testimony by Justice Department official sheds light
on White House conspiracy to manipulate elections
"JFK plot": Is Washington trying to open
a Caribbean front in war on terror?
6 June 2007
Former
Cheney aide sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison
5 June 2007
Democrats
pose as Iraq war opponents in New Hampshire debate
The JFK "plot": another grossly inflated
threat
Detroit town hall meeting on impeachment provides
political cover for the Democratic Party
2 June 2007
US
antiwar protest groups silent on Cindy Sheehan's resignation
from Democratic Party
1 June 2007
Michigan Democrats, Republicans agree on deep cuts
Massive deficit still looms
31 May 2007
US
Supreme Court curbs workers' ability to sue for pay discrimination
US Defense Secretary warns new naval officers on civilian
control of military
30 May 2007
Iraq
war opponent Cindy Sheehan resigns from the Democratic Party
ISSE holds public meeting at Florida State University
29 May 2007
US
big business funnels hundreds of millions into presidential campaigns
28 May 2007
Candidates file personal finance disclosure reports
The American presidency: Only millionaires need apply
ISSE meeting planned Wednesday at University of California,
Los Angeles
26 May 2007
The Nation magazine offers an alibi for Democrats'
support of Iraq war
24 May 2007
Democratic
Party completes its capitulation on Iraq
Gonzales aide stonewalls on White House role in firing
of US attorneys
23 May 2007
Democrats
drop "withdrawal" deadlines as administration mulls
post-surge Iraq
21 May 2007
Former
US President Jimmy Carter blasts Bush and Blair over Iraq
Senate immigration "compromise": Democrats
join Bush in assault on democratic rights
ISSE meeting planned at Florida State University
18 May 2007
Bipartisan
Senate plan would deepen exploitation of immigrant workers
Former Justice Department official's testimony raises
question:
How extensive is police state spying in the US?
17 May 2007
Former
Justice Department official describes illegal actions by Bush
administration in defense of domestic spying
Prelude to deal with Bush on war-funding
More antiwar posturing from Senate Democrats
Jerry Falwell, founder of the right-wing Moral Majority,
dead at 73
16 May 2007
A new business model emerges
Why the United Auto Workers supports Cerberus' take-over of Chrysler
After resignation of Gonzales deputy
Bush Justice Department cover-up unraveling
15 May 2007
A historic betrayal of auto workers
United Auto Workers capitulates to carve-up of Chrysler
11 May 2007
House
Democrats pass new measure to fund US war in Iraq
10 May 2007
Top
Justice Department aide to testify in probe of US attorney firings
US
court drops all charges against Posada Carriles--terrorist killer
set free
The New Jersey jihadists: another strange alleged
terrorist plot
7 May 2007
The
John Edwards campaign: A representative of the American ruling
elite postures as a working class populist
US: Circle of corruption widens in student loan investigation
5 May 2007
First
Republican presidential debate displays a party in deepening
crisis
Judith Miller defends New York police repression of
antiwar "terrorists"
4 May 2007
After
Bush veto, Democrats prepare further retreat on war funding bill
3 May 2007
Posada Carriles case
US government moves to gag terrorist on CIA ties
2 May 2007
Following
Bush veto, Democrats prepare war-spending bill with no timeline
Renzi, Doolittle, and the "DC Madam"
Capitol Hill awash in corruption and criminality
1 May 2007
Ex-CIA
director Tenet admits lies told on war
28 April 2007
Democratic
presidential candidates debate where to wage war next
US: FDA knew of food contamination for years
27 April 2007
Senate
passes Iraq war spending bill, paving way to Bush veto
26 April 2007
Pat
Tillman's brother denounces the US military's "deliberate
and calculated lies"
25 April 2007
Washington's
Iraq funding "confrontation:" a dispute over tactics
for continuing the war
21 April 2007
Gonzalez
before the Senate Judiciary Committee: The Bush clique on life
support
Leading Democrats posture on abortion ruling
20 April 2007
Posada
Carriles: terrorist who killed 73 in plane bombing walks free
19 April 2007
Bush,
Democrats meet on war funding as violence soars in Iraq
US Supreme Court rules in favor of abortion restrictions
18 April 2007
Court
appeal scheduled for US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
17 April 2007
Military
and money dominate opening of US 2008 presidential campaign
Will White House sacrifice Gonzales to save Rove?
16 April 2007
Scandal,
political tensions spur demands for Wolfowitz's ouster at World
Bank
13 April 2007
John
McCain at VMI: A blunt statement of US imperialism's stake in
Iraq
10 April 2007
Senate
Democrats pledge funding to continue Iraq war
9 April 2007
More
calls for attorney general to resign over firings of US attorneys
5 April 2007
Record
US presidential fund-raising: The best elections money can buy
4 April 2007
Behind
Washington "showdown" on Iraq: Democrats to fully fund
the war
Resolution adopted by the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference
Against War
End the occupation of Iraq! No to war against Iran! For an international
socialist movement against war!
Whom is John McCain trying to fool?
3 April 2007
Democratic
cave-in on White House testimony in US attorney firings
2008 election campaign: Hillary Clinton claims lead
in the "money primary"
Bush skips baseball's opening day
2 April 2007
International
Students for Social Equality/Socialist Equality Party conference
adopts socialist internationalist perspective to oppose war
31 March 2007
Guantánamo
prisoner charges confession extracted through torture
30 March 2007
Bush
vilifies Democrats, vows veto of Iraq war funding bill
Ex-aide contradicts Attorney General Gonzales on US
attorney firings
29 March 2007
The
anti-democratic agenda behind the US attorney firings
28 March 2007
US
Senate votes $122 billion in war funding while suggesting withdrawal
"goal"
Elizabeth Edwards' cancer and the remorselessness
of US political life
26 March 2007
New
documents expose White House, Justice Department lies in firing
of US attorneys
24 March 2007
Democrats
pass "anti-war" bill that funds the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan
23 March 2007
The
US attorneys "showdown"--Democrats seek to evade a
confrontation
22 March 2007
Congressional
hearings detail political tampering in US climate research
20 March 2007
An
appeal to WSWS readers: Attend the ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference
Against War
17 March 2007
If
elected, Hillary Clinton vows to keep US troops in Iraq
US auto union prepares to hand over massive concessions
15 March 2007
Demands
mount for Gonzales's resignation over US attorneys purge
Soldiers, families speak at Walter Reed public hearing
Government indifference, cost-cutting compound ravages of war
for wounded US troops
Stop the carve-up of Chrysler! For workers' control
and public ownership of the auto industry!
14 March 2007
Democrats
drop demand that Bush seek approval for war on Iran
13 March 2007
Demands additional 8,200 troops, $3.2 billion
Bush calls Democrats bluff on war funding resolution
Right-wing furor demanding pardon for convicted Cheney
aide
12 March 2007
A revealing encounter in the halls of Congress
Leading Democrat denounces "idiot liberals" for demanding
cutoff of war funds
10 March 2007
Walter
Reed scandal lifts lid on neglect of wounded US troops
9 March 2007
Democrats
"withdrawal" plan paves way to escalation of Iraq war
Vermont towns vote for Bush-Cheney impeachment
An exchange of letters on the role of religion in
the US
8 March 2007
ISSE/SEP meetings on the fourth anniversary of the
invasion of Iraq
Iraq, Iran and the eruption of American militarism
2 March 2007
Campaign
builds for ISSE/SEP Emergency Conference Against War
1 March 2007
ISSE
meeting in Richmond, Virginia: "Iraq, Iran and the eruption
of American militarism"
27 February 2007
Congressional
Democrats rule out Iraq war fund cutoff
26 February 2007
Anti-imperialism
vs. anti-Americanism: an exchange of letters
24 February 2007
The
"scramble for Hollywood:" the Democratic Party and
entertainment industry liberals
20 February 2007
Portrait
of an "antiwar" Democrat: Former Feith aide makes radio
reply to Bush
18 February 2007
Join
the International Students for Social Equality! Build an ISSE
chapter at your college or high school!
17 February 2007
After
House vote on non-binding resolution: Democrats won't cut Iraq
war funding
14 February 2007
Obama's The Audacity of Hope: Portrait of a
modern American political operative
The historic decline of the United States and the
eruption of militarism--Part three
13 February 2007
The
historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism--Part
two
US Senator Barack Obama and the war in Iraq
12 February 2007
Oppose the occupation of Iraq! No to war against Iran!
International Students for Social Equality and SEP to hold emergency
conference against war
The
historic decline of the United States and the eruption of militarism--Part
one
Andrew Stern's Getting
America Back on Track
More right-wing proposals from the American labor bureaucracy
10 February 2007
Pentagon
report admits fabricated intelligence used to justify Iraq war
9 February 2007
Democrats
back massive hike in military spending
8 February 2007
Senate
Republicans call Democrats' bluff on Iraq war resolution
Letters
on Zbigniew Brzezinki's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee
7 February 2007
Bush's
budget priorities: war and the wealthy
Presidential candidates strike antiwar pose at Democratic
National Committee meeting
Bush wants to make tax cuts for the rich permanent
5 February 2007
Bush
to propose record US war budget
Democrats' "Out of Iraq" caucus puts on
a show for its radical friends
3 February 2007
The
Libby perjury trial and the Washington media establishment
Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski's warnings
of war against Iran?
2 February 2007
A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a
pretext to attack Iran
Congressional Democrats embrace Republican resolution
on Iraq
1 February 2007
Steny Hoyer at the Brookings Institution
House majority leader lays out Democratic position on Iraq
31 January 2007
Libby
perjury trial puts spotlight on US Vice President Cheney
29 January 2007
The politics of the January 27 rally in Washington
Organizers channel antiwar protest behind Democrats
Students, veterans, workers denounce Iraq war at Saturday
protests
27 January 2007
The
struggle against war requires a break with the Democrats
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