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Written by Josh Lucker
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
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 Michael Moore’s latest film, SiCKO, is from beginning to end an all-out assault on the for-profit U.S. health care system. Most of us have heard of the 47 million Americans, including 10 million children, without health insurance, a number that has been steadily rising over the last few years.
But Moore clearly states in the opening minutes of the film that SiCKO isn’t about them. The focus of the movie is on the nearly 250 million Americans who are insured. He focuses on how the health industry in the U.S. is set up not to provide, but rather to deny care. As a former “denial management specialist” says in the film, “It’s not unintentional. It’s not a mistake. It’s not an oversight. You’re not slipping through the cracks. Somebody made that crack and swept you towards it, and the intent is to maximize profit.” |
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Written by Cort Greene
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Saturday, 21 July 2007 |
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 For almost nine years, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Fernando González, and René González have been imprisoned in the United States for fighting against terrorism.
On August 20th in Atlanta, two judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will be hearing arguments on over 20 irregularities that occurred during this political show trial, ranging from venue prejudice, prosecutorial misconduct, governmental lowering in its burden of proof of espionage conspiracy, errors in sentencing instructions given to the jury, and relevant discovery principles. |
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Written by Ann Robertson
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Saturday, 21 July 2007 |
 Marx’s analysis of capitalism, unlike bourgeois accounts, is conducted from a historical perspective. In other words, Marx was keenly aware that during the march of history, one economic system, because of internal, irreconcilable contradictions, has been replaced by another until it too falls victim to similar contradictions. Of course, when one is born and matures within a single economy and lacks knowledge of any other system, one tends to take one’s own for granted, believing that it will persevere forever. A historical perspective has the advantage of forcing us to rise above the provincial perspective that assumes economic systems are eternal. We survey from above the vast array of systems that have played their fleeting role on history’s stage. For this reason, Marx’s analysis of capitalism is specifically written with the purpose of unveiling its inner contradictions so that the possibility of its demise stands boldly in relief. This runs directly opposed to bourgeois portrayals of capitalism as “natural” and hence as unalterable as the law of gravity itself. |
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Written by SocialistAppeal
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
 Do you know the origins of Fair St. Louis? Everyone has heard of the fair, but few remember that it was originally established as the "Veiled Prophet" Parade, a celebration of the crushing of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, known also as the "Reign of the Rabble" and the "St. Louis Commune". Join us on July 29th for a day of solidarity, education, and remembrance as we commemorate the 130th Anniversary of the strike - a great and forgotten event in the history of the U.S. working class. Potluck. |
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Written by Shane Jones
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
 Pressure to support the "lesser evil" Democrats in the next Presidential elections is already high. One of the center-pieces of the Democratic Party is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Many have illusions that as a Democrat and a woman, her policies will be much more "worker friendly". But in the final analysis, she defends the same system of capitalist exploitation and imperialism as Bush Jr., Bill Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, etc. She is sparing no expense and choosing her words carefully in order to prove to the billionaires that really run this country that she will be a loyal defender of the established order. This is the same approach taken by every other candidate for the Presidency, be they Republicans or Democrats. |
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Written by Adam Richmond
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
 The 25 year legal and political struggle to free Mumia Abu Jamal reached another milestone on May 17. Mumia’s lead attorney, Robert R. Bryan, presented three arguments before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia in the effort to secure a new trial. If the appeals do not succeed, there is no apparent legal obstacle for the government to carry out the death sentence against Mumia after all these long years. The deliberation by the appeals panel is expected to take months. |
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Written by Josh Lucker
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
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Roughly 150 activists and members of organized labor gathered outside of the Chase Park Plaza Cinema on Friday, June 29th, to declare that the time has come for, in the words of Carol Stevenson from the California Nurses Association, "comprehensive, universal, and guaranteed" healthcare for all and to view the St. Louis premiere of Sicko, Michael Moore's long-awaited exposé on the subject. |
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Written by Josh Lucker
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
 In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Kanye West famously remarked: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” Following recent events in Greensburg, Kansas, we can definitively say that Bush and the rest of the U.S. ruling class don’t care about any working or poor people, regardless of race. |
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Written by Bob Witaek
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
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A party in opposition to the war would have a 100% or very near solid block against the funding. That the vote split is only politics. This tactic only confuses those who refuse to take the proper step of completely dumping that pro-war institution known as the “Democratic Party.” |
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Written by Shane Jones
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Saturday, 30 June 2007 |
 After years of Bush’s open-ended war on working people at home and abroad, many on the “left” are desperate for an alternative. For many, that alternative is Barack Obama, a Democratic Senator from Illinois. Obama, who is very careful with his words and actions, has done a good job so far of portraying himself as a “sensible progressive”. However, far from being a “progressive” alternative, Obama is at his core a typical representative of the bosses’ political parties. Despite presenting himself as a candidate of “change”, Obama is a defender of capitalism and imperialism, and hence of exploitation and oppression. On all fundamentals, he is far closer to Bush than he is to being a genuine alternative for working people. |
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