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Written by David May & Tim Kaminski
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Saturday, 17 February 2007 |
 On February 14th, the DaimlerChrysler
AG Corporation announced sweeping plant closings and job cuts for its
U.S. operations which will go into effect in 2008 and 2009. The company
announced the closing of the Newark, Delaware plant as well as the cutting
a total of 13,000 jobs across the US and Canada by 2009, mainly through
shift elimination. The Cleveland, Ohio parts distribution center will
be idled as well. As part of this "restructuring" plan, the
company will cut U.S. production capacity by 400,000 units through 2009.
If this wasn't enough, DaimlerChrysler also announced that it is exploring
options to sell off the Chrysler division altogether. No wonder many
workers are calling these announcements the "St. Valentine's Day
Massacre".
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Written by Alan Woods
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
 Instead of listening to the advice of Baker and the Iraq Study Group to seek an exit strategy, Bush prefers to up the stakes, increasing the number of troops in Iraq and threatening both Syria and Iran. He is coming into conflict with the ruling class he is supposed to represent. Herein lies a potential political crisis of major proportions in the USA. |
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Written by In Defence of Marxism - www.marxist.com
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
 A member of the El Salvador Bloque Popular Juvenil BPJ [Popular Youth Block] has disappeared and his life may be at risk. Please add your voice to the protest! Sign the petition here! |
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Written by In Defence of Marxism - www.marxist.com
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
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Further to our earlier publication we are calling on our
supporters to do everything possible to demand that the El Salvador
authorities stop harassing left youth and in particular they find the
whereabouts of Edwar Francisco Contreras Bonifacio. Details are provided here.
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Written by Alan Woods
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
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  This was the period of the most violent labor conflicts in the history of the United States. The first of these occurred with the Great Rail Strike of 1877, when rail workers across the nation went out on strike in response to a 10-percent pay cut. A contemporary labor paper called the Great Strike the beginning of a Second American Revolution. Originally published in the book Marxism and the USA, published by and available from Wellred.
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Written by Alan Woods
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Thursday, 08 February 2007 |
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Originally published in the book Marxism and the USA, published by and available from Wellred.
In order to understand the ideas of Marxism, it is first necessary to approach them without prejudice. This is difficult, because until now, the great majority of Americans have only heard of Marxism in connection with that monstrous caricature that was Stalinist Russia. The collapse of the Stalinist U.S.S.R. apparently proves the inadequacy of socialism. What more needs to be said?
Well, there is a great deal more to be said.
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Written by Workers International League
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Monday, 05 February 2007 |
A report on the January 27th anti-war demonstrations which took place across the country. The Workers International League participated in several of these demos. Here are some comments and images from the participants. |
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Written by Mark Rahman
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Saturday, 03 February 2007 |
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Mark Rahman writes about the problems the youth of the United States face under capitalism. An entire generation of workers finds itself with no prospects for the future.
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Written by Michael Cannon
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Saturday, 03 February 2007 |
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Led by the U.S., the UN Security Council is discussing the prospect of economic sanctions to punish Iran for its insistence on continuing to develop its nuclear program. Faced with the threat of sanctions and possibly even military action, the Iranian regime remains defiant, insisting on the “peaceful” nature of its nuclear program. This assertion is rather doubtful, however, given the lesson that Iran has drawn from the war next door in Iraq.
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Written by Shane Jones
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Saturday, 03 February 2007 |
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Following the Great Depression and the mighty rise of industrial unions in the U.S., the capitalist class made some concessions to the labor movement because they were worried an all-out revolutionary situation could erupt. These concessions, in the form of the New Deal programs and the National Labor Relations Act were intended to save capitalism. But once the flood-tide of the class struggle ebbed, the bosses moved to take back those concessions, which U.S. capitalism could no longer tolerate. Taft-Hartley was the first major example of this.
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