Lame duck US Congress moves to cut taxes for rich, end benefits for unemployed

The 111th US Congress has entered its final session, with Democratic leaders signaling their willingness to extend tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

Obama on “60 Minutes”: A servant of big business

Obama went on national television to conciliate big business and embrace the concerns of the Tea Party right wing, declaring them politically legitimate.

Obama, Republicans embrace spending cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy

Democratic President Barack Obama and leading congressional Republicans have voiced support for significant cuts in domestic social spending and an extension of Bush administration tax breaks for the wealthy.

The apologists for Obama and the Republican “resurgence”

The outcome of the 2010 midterm elections is an indictment of the apologists for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.

Right-wing Democrat wins in California gubernatorial election

California’s highly publicized and heavily-funded gubernatorial race concluded with the victory of right-wing Democrat Jerry Brown amid mass abstention from the polls, especially by young people.

2010 US elections

The record of the WSWS on Obama

The WSWS here links articles written during Obama’s campaign for the presidency and in the aftermath of his victory that warned that he would continue and deepen the right-wing policies of the Bush administration.

Wall Street celebrates Fed credit boost, Obama deal on tax cuts

Buoyed by a huge infusion of cheap credit from the Federal Reserve and the guarantee of continued tax cuts for the wealthy after the Republican victory on Tuesday, the US stock market roared upward Thursday.

After the 2010 Democratic defeat

Obama, Republicans prepare for joint assault on American workers

Victorious congressional Republicans and Democratic President Barack Obama took their first tentative steps towards an open political partnership to pursue a right-wing agenda.

Behind the Democratic debacle

After coming to power by posing as the tribune of “hope” and "change you can believe in," Barack Obama, through his pro-corporate and pro-war policies, has succeeded in alienating and demoralizing large sections of the population that had previously supported him.

Letters on the Stewart/Colbert rally

A selection of recent letters to the World Socialist Web Site in response to the article “Stewart/Colbert rally preaches compromise and complacency,” published November 1, 2010

The dimensions of the Democratic Party collapse in 2010 election

With nearly complete results now available for Tuesday’s federal and state elections in the United States, both the scale and the contradictions of the Republican Party victory have become clear.

Republicans win sweeping victory in US congressional election

The US congressional elections have produced a sweeping victory for the Republican Party, which regained control of the House of Representatives and made substantial gains in the Senate.

The decay of American democracy

The 2010 US election campaign marks a further descent by the American two-party system into political imbecility.

US election campaign ends amid deepening economic crisis

The campaign for the midterm US election Tuesday is coming to an end under the shadow of an intractable and deepening economic crisis and the evident inability of the Obama administration to develop any policies to overcome it.

Stewart/Colbert rally preaches compromise and complacency

The main message from the US television comedians was a conservative one: the need for a political consensus between the two parties in Washington and their allies in the media.

Break with Obama and the Democrats

Build a socialist movement against mass unemployment and war

The following leaflet will be distributed to participants at the October 30 “Rally to Restore Sanity” in Washington DC called by comedian Jon Stewart.

The 2010 elections, the working class and the Democratic Party

With only a few days remaining in the 2010 election campaign, one thing is certain: the Obama administration and the Democratic Party are preparing a further lurch to the right.

Midterm elections to usher in further shift by Obama to the right

With Election Day less than a week away, it is clear that, whatever the precise breakdown of Democrats and Republicans in the new Congress and in statehouses across the country, the outcome of the vote will be a further shift to the right by the Obama administration.

New York gubernatorial campaign centers on pledges to attack state workers

As the economic crisis deepens, the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor have pledged to gut the pay and pensions of state workers.