Socialist Equality Party announces US election campaign

The SEP’s candidates in the 2012 elections will be Jerry White for president and Phyllis Scherrer for vice president.

Five years after the invasion of Iraq: A debacle for US imperialism

Five years after Washington inaugurated its “shock and awe” campaign, striking Baghdad with cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs, it has become abundantly clear that the war of aggression against Iraq has produced the greatest geo-political disaster in American history.

Shades of 1929: Bear Stearns collapse signals deepest crisis since Great Depression

However the events on Wall Street play out during the next few weeks, there is no question but that a crisis of historic magnitude is now unfolding. After a generation of relentless media propaganda, which touted the infallibility of the capitalist market and the genius of Wall Street’s financial wizards, the United States economy now stands on the very brink of an economic breakdown on a scale not seen since the Great Depression.

France: Students need a socialist perspective and a turn to the working class

Despite months of blockades and confrontations with police, the movement calling for abrogation of the Pécresse law reforming French universities is at an impasse. The law is still in place and, before the beginning of the Christmas holidays, most of the student blockades had ended or been forcibly repressed. The essential question facing students opposed to the law is: On what political basis can a struggle against the law continue?

For a socialist and internationalist perspective to fight French President Sarkozy’s social cuts

The following is a translation of a statement being distributed to French workers and students participating in strikes and demonstrations against the social attacks by the Gaullist government headed by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Bush gives green light for Turkey to attack PKK in Iraq

Historical, political issues in the Turkish-Kurd conflict

US President George W. Bush and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed on November 5 in Washington to commit a further crime in sorely afflicted Iraq. With logistic support from the US, the Turkish army will move against members of the PKK (Kurdish Worker’s Party), which is hiding out in the Qadil mountains of northern Iraq.

Total surrender by US auto union

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US auto workers shut down General Motors

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The Gaza crisis and the failure of Palestinian nationalism

The formation of a new government by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the declaration of a state of emergency, after a week of civil warfare in Gaza between Fatah and Hamas ended in the military victory of the Islamist movement, have consolidated the de facto political division between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Stop the carve-up of Chrysler! For workers’ control and public ownership of the auto industry!

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Chrysler cuts 13,000 North American jobs

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Bush rejects Iraq Study Group report

President Bush on Thursday made it clear that he rejected the conclusions and policy prescriptions of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan panel headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton.

Iraq Study Group report highlights crisis of US imperialism in Iraq and at home

The Iraq Study Group (ISG) report, released Wednesday, underscores the immensity of the crisis not only of the Bush administration, but the American political establishment as a whole. Both the content of the report and the extraordinary attention given to it by the media demonstrate that the US debacle in Iraq has produced a crisis of historic dimensions within the United States itself.

The 2006 elections and the US two-party system

Bush, Democrats disenfranchise antiwar voters

Four weeks after the November 7 US congressional elections, all sections of the American ruling elite have turned their back on the massive antiwar vote that repudiated the policies of the Bush administration, put an end to Republican control of both the House of Representatives and Senate and placed the Democratic Party in control of Congress.

US midterm elections: An overwhelming repudiation of the war in Iraq

With returns from the western states still coming in, the Democratic Party has won control of the House of Representatives by a comfortable margin, having ousted more than 30 Republican incumbents.

New study says US war has killed 655,000 Iraqis

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Answer strike-breaking injunction: Mobilize Detroit workers in defense of the teachers

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Police threaten Socialist Equality Party petitioners in Illinois

With the approach of the June 26 deadline to submit nominating petitions to place Socialist Equality Party candidate Joe Parnarauskis on the ballot for state Senate in Illinois’ 52nd District, local authorities have mounted a campaign of obstruction aimed at preventing the SEP from meeting the signature requirement.

Framework for a police state

US government phone spying targets all Americans

The exposure in Thursday’s USA Today of a vast and secret National Security Agency data base tracking the phone calls of hundreds of millions of Americans is further evidence of the advanced preparations for the establishment of a police state in the United States. The NSA database is a blueprint for political repression and intimidation on a massive scale.