Articles by Socialist Worker
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Crime and Punishment under Capitalism
Paul D’Amato – Socialist Worker,
9 Aug 2010
What if there was a three strikes law for Corporate America’s repeat offenders? As Rosa Luxemburg once wrote, bourgeois justice is “like a net, which allowed the voracious sharks to escape, while the little sardines were caught.”
→ read full articleHaiti’s Colonial Overlord
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker,
9 Aug 2010
The role of Bill Clinton’s Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission and other institutions that claim to look out for the interests of Haiti’s poor.
→ read full articleA Wave of Anger From Below
Tariq Ali – Socialist Worker,
5 Jul 2010
PEOPLE ARE now beginning to realize, all over the world, what the Israeli state is and what it is capable of. It has taken a long time.
→ read full articleKashmir: The Hidden Occupation
Yasmin Qureshi – Socialist Worker,
14 Jun 2010
The author grew up as a member of India’s Muslim minority before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a social justice activist who traveled to Palestine in 2007 and to Kashmir last year. This article is a reflection on her trip to Kashmir. The extent of India’s military occupation of Kashmir is incredible and appalling, yet the voice of Kashmiris is often lost.
→ read full articleLooking for an Alternative to Capitalism
Alan Maass - Socialist Worker,
31 May 2010
Socialism is back in the news with new evidence of its popularity.
→ 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 articleKeeping a Finger on the Nuclear Trigger
Editorial, Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2010
The U.S. has repackaged its strategy–but the terrible threat of nuclear war remains.
→ read full articleIsrael: An Outpost of Empire
Michael Fiorentino – Socialist Worker,
19 Apr 2010
Israel’s sense of impunity knows no limits, writes Michael Fiorentino, who recently returned from a two-month stay in the occupied West Bank.
→ read full articleTHE AID RACKET
Ashley Smith - Socialist Worker,
26 Feb 2010
IT’S NOW more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be thankful for. On February 12, the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Ken Merten boasted, "In terms of […]
→ read full articleTHE HUMANITARIAN MYTH
Richard Seymour – Socialist Worker,
11 Feb 2010
The author of The Liberal Defense of Murder analyzes the propaganda manufactured to justify U.S. actions in Haiti after the earthquake.WITHIN DAYS of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, the U.S. government had sent thousands of 82nd Airborne troops and Marines, alongside the super-carrier USS Carl Vinson. By this Sunday, a […]
→ read full articleEUROPEAN CAPITALISM’S WEAK LINK?
Antonis Davenellos – Socialist Worker,
11 Feb 2010
Sweeping budget cuts by the Greek government have provoked a fightback by labor unions and students. Tax collectors have already called a 48-hour strike, to be followed by a strike by all public sector workers set for February 10, even as the government demands a 5.5 percent wage cut for public employees. The national trade […]
→ read full articleTHE “SHOCK DOCTRINE” FOR HAITI
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker,
10 Feb 2010
The U.S. is reviving what Haitians call "the plan of death."ONE MONTH after the devastating earthquake, Haiti continues to suffer under apocalyptic conditions. The quake killed more than 200,000 people, injured 250,000 and has left over 3 million dependent on assistance for food, water and housing. Contrary to the puff pieces in the media, the […]
→ read full articleDELAYING AID FOR A PHOTO-OP
Jesse Hagopian – Socialist Worker,
26 Jan 2010
Given the examples of Iraq, Afghanistan and now Haiti, it seems like the U.S. knows how to do little other than occupy.The author, a teacher from Seattle, was in Haiti with his wife (who works on HIV education in the country) and one-year-old son when the earthquake hit. Here, he looks at the U.S. government’s […]
→ read full articleTHE HUMANITARIAN MYTH
Richard Seymour – Socialist Worker,
26 Jan 2010
The author of The Liberal Defense of Murder, analyzes the propaganda manufactured to justify U.S. actions in Haiti after the earthquake. With U.S. forces obstructing aid and beefing up "security" while Haitians die, no one should accept that the U.S. is motivated by "humanitarianism."WITHIN DAYS of Haiti suffering an earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter […]
→ read full articleCATASTROPHE IN HAITI
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker,
21 Jan 2010
The natural and not-so-natural factors that contributed to the devastation when Haiti was struck by a strong earthquake.A DEVASTATING earthquake, the worst in 200 years, struck Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, laying waste to the city and killing untold numbers of people. The quake measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, and detonated more than 30 aftershocks, all […]
→ read full articleSCAPEGOATS AND SCAREMONGERS
Alan Maass – Socialist Worker,
11 Jan 2010
The deceptions and hidden motives in the government and media response to the plot to set off a bomb on a plane bound for Detroit.HE ATTEMPT by a 23-year-old Nigerian man to explode a bomb on a Detroit-bound airplane has become the excuse for a return to some of the worst "war on terror" hysteria […]
→ read full articleA VICTORY FOR VIVA PALESTINA
Eric Ruder – Socialist Worker,
9 Jan 2010
Viva Palestina succeeds in bringing humanitarian supplies to Gaza, despite a harrowing assault by Egyptian police.EXACTLY ONE month after departing from London on December 6, the Viva Palestina convoy to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza finally reached its destination, crossing in from Egypt with 518 people, 156 vehicles and all the relief supplies it brought. […]
→ 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 articleSOCIALISM, STALINISM AND EASTERN EUROPE
Phil Gasper – Socialist Worker,
4 Dec 2009
The author, editor of a comprehensive edition of the Communist Manifesto, contrasts the so-called socialist regimes of Eastern Europe 20 years ago with the principles at the heart of the socialism movement historically.IT’S 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the event that came to symbolize the collapse of the […]
→ 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 […]
→ read full articleNO NATION CAN LIBERATE ANOTHER
Malalai Joya – Speech in NYC – Socialist Worker,
10 Nov 2009
Malalai Joya is known around the world as a courageous opponent of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, the corrupt regime presided over by President Hamid Karzai–and the Taliban and other conservative Islamist forces battling U.S. and Afghan government troops. An uncompromising fighter for women’s rights, Joya was elected to parliament in 2005, where she denounced […]
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