Articles by Lee Sustar
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The Politics of Malcolm X
Lee Sustar – Socialist Worker,
21 Jan 2013
Malcolm X gave a voice to the rage of millions of Black workers at a time when they had no means of political expression.
→ read full articleMarx against the State
Lee Sustar – Socialist Worker,
26 Mar 2012
Throughout his life, Karl Marx argued that for socialism to be realized, the state would have to be done away with. But since his death, many so-called socialists championed building up the state. Lee Sustar shows that this is opposite to Marx’s views–and to any notion of socialism.
→ read full articleWhy Karl Marx was Right
Lee Sustar – Socialist Worker,
19 Sep 2011
Karl Marx had it right. At some point, capitalism can destroy itself. You cannot keep on shifting income from labor to capital without having an excess capacity and a lack of aggregate demand. That’s what has happened. We thought that markets worked. They’re not working. The individual can be rational. The firm, to survive and thrive, can push labor costs more and more down, but labor costs are someone else’s income and consumption. That’s why it’s a self-destructive process.
→ read full articlePakistan: Whole Towns Have Vanished
Lee Sustar interviewing Bushra Khaliq – Socialist Worker,
13 Sep 2010
The catastrophic floods that tore through parts of Pakistan have left an estimated 20 million people homeless. According to UN officials, the scale of the disaster–in terms of the number of people suffering–than the earthquake in Haiti, the tsunami that hit India and the earthquake that hit Pakistan in 2005 combined. Bushra Khaliq is general secretary of the Women Workers Help Line, based in Lahore, and a leading member of the Labor Party Pakistan (LPP), which is working with other left groups to organize a response to the disaster that provides an alternative to the government’s inaction. She talked to Lee Sustar after returning from a visit to some of the regions hit by the flood.
→ read full articleRescuing Greece or the Banks?
Lee Sustar – Socialist Worker,
17 May 2010
The EU’s financial bailout will funnel hundreds of billions to Europe’s biggest banks while workers suffer cuts in wages and social spending.
→ read full articleREMEMBERING A FREEDOM FIGHTER
Lee Sustar and Aisha Karim - Socialist Worker,
8 Jan 2010
The authors, who edited Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader, describe the contribution of a great poet and political activist.AFTER ALL the wonderful tributes to South African activist and poet Dennis Brutus following his death December 26, another may seem superfluous. But having spent considerable time interviewing Dennis and researching his life and work, […]
→ read full articleIMPRISONING A FIGHTER FOR JUSTICE
Lee Sustar – Socialist Worker,
20 Nov 2009
Report on a federal appeals court’s decision to uphold the conviction of left-wing lawyer Lynne Stewart, and order the 70-year-old to serve years in prison.CIVIL LIBERTIES champion Lynne Stewart has been ordered to prepare to report to prison by a federal appeals court that upheld her conviction on bogus charges that she "supported terrorism" while […]
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