An Italian journalist wounded by U.S. forces in Iraq asks if the Obama administration will hold her assailant responsible. December 11, 2009 Previously published by the International Socialist ...

The deplorable conditions in many urban centers in the U.S. can be directly laid at the feet of the United States government. August 24, 2010 Previously published by the International Socialist ...

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Edgar Esquivel, a UPS worker and member of Teamsters Local 952 in Southern California, looks at the upcoming Teamsters presidential election. AS THE Teamsters old-guard leadership splinters and their ...

Richard Putz considers what could replace an institution that claims to "serve and protect," but which really maintains "law and order" in an unequal society. ONCE AGAIN, the police have proven ...

The shocking proposal of one Ohio politician to withhold treatment from people overdosing on opioids is part of a larger picture of failure, writes Nicole Colson. That's Middletown, Ohio, City Council ...

Since its national conference in January, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain, the country's largest revolutionary organization, has been shaken by the most severe crisis in its history, ...

THE REVOLUTION in Tunisia that began on December 18 went from being almost completely ignored in the British newspapers to being a sensational story of bloodbaths, gang violence, Israeli worries about ...

Nancy MacLean tells the story of the Populist movement of the 1890s--when it briefly challenged the hold of white supremacy in the U.S. South. IT WAS an event without precedent in the South. On a few ...

Bill Mullen looks at the legacy of Ralph Ellison, author of the landmark Invisible Man. Since its publication, it has been a standard on American literature syllabi, and has never gone out of print.

IN THE 1930s, revolutionary socialists in the U.S. who opposed the Stalinized turns of the Communist Party (CP) were marginalized. By 1938, the American followers of the Russian revolutionary Leon ...

Within days of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City's World Trade Center, the Bush administration was preparing for war on Afghanistan. At the time, Phil Gasper wrote a history of the ...