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, by TANURO Daniel
The energy-climate question is one of those areas where the policy of Barack Obama could be most radically distinguished from that of George W. Bush. Under the leadership of the new president, in fact, the United States should quickly adopt an obligatory plan of reduction of greenhouse gases, (…)
, by BELLO Walden
It came together spontaneously, the rally at Lafayette Park across from the White House, even before the concession speech by John McCain. The crowd was multiracial, but the vast majority was white. And young. Lustily cheering “O-BA-MA, O-BA-MA,” they were from a generation aching for a (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Barack Obama has won. What happens when what appears to be the people’s victory is also the victory of the economic elite? Where is that convergence of interests located? And how long can such a coincidence of interest last? What are the tasks of the left and the social movements in the face (…)
THE SWEEPING victory of Barack Obama in the presidential elections is a transformative event in U.S. politics, as an African American takes the highest office in a country built on slavery.
Now come the hard questions—challenges greater than any president has faced since the Second World War. (…)
, by Solidarity (USA)
MILLIONS OF AMERICANS see the election of Barack Obama as a referendum on white supremacy and we join in that celebration. The racist campaigns launched against Obama, conducted sometimes in coded language and other times in inflammatory accusations, turned out to be amazingly unsuccessful. Yet (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Barack Obama’s victory marks a decisive generational and sociological shift in American politics. Its impact is difficult to predict at this stage, but the expectations of the majority of young people who propelled Obama to victory remain high. It may not have been a landslide, but the vote was (…)
, by RASMUS Jack
IN EARLY SEPTEMBER, 2008 the Department of Labor reported that the U.S. economy in August had lost another 84,000 jobs. This was followed on October 2 with an announcement that officially recorded September job losses accelerated to 159,000. That made nine consecutive months of increasing (…)
, by Against the Current
IS THIS WHAT 1931 looks like? Years ago, we recall, two themes for popular cinema were people trapped in burning skyscrapers (“Towering Inferno”) and market sharks engaged in financial manipulations (“Wall Street”). After September 11, 2001 the former disaster movie genre suddenly seemed much (…)
, by MIAH Malik
AS WE GO to press prior to the November 4 presidential election, the deepening financial calamity exposes how the “fundamentals” of the economy impact working people, particularly African Americans. The so-called unfettered free market system has been a failure.
The “race factor,” or racism to (…)
, by FINKEL David
THE FINANCIAL AND stock market meltdown of September-October 2008 is unlike anything that the vast majority of us have seen in our lifetimes. Americans would have to be old enough to remember 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression to have seen a crisis of this magnitude. People in Japan, (…)
, by HONEY Michael, WILLIAMS Charles
The Memphis sanitation strike began on February 12, 1968 following the death on February 1 of two sanitation workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, who were crushed by a defective garbage compactor. Martin Luther King, Jr., first traveled to Memphis to support the strike on March 18, invited by (…)
, by DAVIS Mike
Mike Davis finds it ironic, but historically predictable, that a presidential campaign millions of voters have supported for its promise to end the war in Iraq has now mortgaged itself to an escalation of the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Let me begin, very obliquely, with the (…)
, by FISK Milton
SHORTLY AFTER THIS article goes to press, we’ll know who the next U.S. president will be. Whatever the outcome, health care will remain one of our society’s fundamental unresolved crises.
The Frontline TV film, “Sick around the World,” showed Americans how far we are from having a sensible (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Faced with the failure of the financial sector and the possible collapse of the economic system, Republicans and Democrats are working together feverishly to come up with a plan and find the funds to save the American financial system. The Congress that has been unable to provide adequate (…)
, by ONASCH Bill
Peter Camejo, one of the most prominent left leaders to emerge from the Sixties radicalization in the USA, lost a second bout with lymphoma Saturday, September 13. He was 68.
Camejo was born in to a wealthy Venezuelan family. His mother, Elvia, who had family and friend ties in the USA, and (…)
, by QUINN Patrick M.
BILL BANTA, A member of the Chicago branch and founding member of Solidarity, died of pancreatic cancer in a Chicago hospice on August 20th. He was 67. Bill was a revolutionary socialist his entire adult life. Born on February 6, 1941 in Portland, Indiana, he joined the Young People’s Socialist (…)
, by Against the Current
THE ISSUES IN the 2008 election ought to be clear to everyone by now: Rev. Jeremiah Wright. John McCain’s medical dossier. Obama leaving Trinity United Church of Christ. Will Bill and Hillary Clinton sabotage the Obama campaign? Will she force herself onto the Obama ticket? Will the religious (…)
, by BROOKS Chris, FERRISS Susan, GORDON Rachel
Peter Miguel Camejo, a leading figure in the Green party and its vice-presidential candidate in 2004, died at home in California on September 13. He had been a leader of the Fourth International during the 1970s.
The 2004 Nader-Camejo campaign was covered repeatedly in International Viewpoint, (…)
, by Louis Proyect
(These are some personal/political reflections about Peter Camejo. Tomorrow I will be writing an obit for Swans.)
Even though I had steeled myself in anticipation of Peter Camejo’s death, I was still shaken by the news that he was gone. For a period of time between 1981 and 1987, I considered (…)
, by BACHER Dan
Peter Camejo, an advocate for the poor and oppressed in the U.S. and throughout the world, passed away this morning at his home in Folsom.
Peter Camejo, Green Party gubernatorial and vice-presidential candidate and longtime progressive political activist, passed away this morning in Folsom, (…)
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