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Written by TT
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Friday, 02 November 2007 |
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In this letter, TT describes his background and his interest in the WIL. |
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Written by Ann Robertson
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
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In developing this philosophical outlook, Marx based himself on great thinkers that had preceded him, but went beyond them in developing further those ideas and providing new insights. He developed his dialectics from Hegel, the great German philosopher. Here Ann Robertson in the USA provides an interesting examination of the development of dialectics from Hegel through to Marx. |
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Written by Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 26 October 2007 |
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A new half-sheet anti-war leaflet for use at the October 27 anti-war demos. Click here to download. |
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Written by Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 26 October 2007 |
 On September 21st, the Student Senate at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville approved Youth for International Socialism’s right to exist on campus as a student organization, bringing a fitting end to a week of planning, organizing, and mobilizing on the part of the student activists of YFIS. This was a victory not only for the fledgling campus YFIS, but for the basic rights of all SIUE students. |
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Written by Shamus Cooke
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Monday, 22 October 2007 |
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Sometimes small statistics can have huge implications. The U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics recently reported that the age at which U.S. workers retire has risen for the first time in 100 years. According to the report, in the mid-1980s, 18 percent of people in their late 60s still had jobs; today, it is 29 percent. Millions of U.S. workers can no longer look forward to the “Golden Years” of guaranteed Social Security, Medicare health insurance and employer pensions. One in four baby boomers surveyed said they would likely never be able to retire – in other words, they will “work until they drop”. For those that do want to retire, the age at which they can do so is also being systematically raised. Workers born in 1960 or later must wait until age 67, rather than 65, to get their full Social Security benefits. There is talk of raising it further to 70. |
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Written by Josh Lucker
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Saturday, 20 October 2007 |
 As is often the case when an idea for radical change starts to gain widespread support, those in power have been desperately trying to redefine what “universal health care” means. At the forefront of this effort is Hillary Clinton with her “American Health Choices Plan”. However, her “solution” not only does not deal with one of the primary problems in the existing health system – i.e. the blood-sucking insurance companies – it will actually make them billions in profits at the expense of millions of working people. |
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Written by Shane Jones
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Saturday, 20 October 2007 |
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 Millions of U.S. workers and youth have come to reject the inhuman conditions the crisis of capitalism is producing: the War on Iraq, the Katrina disaster, attacks on immigrants, stagnant wages, cuts in social services, the health care crisis, and on and on. On the basis of events, consciousness is changing, starting with the most advanced and active layer of the workers and youth, and is increasingly directed toward a break with the capitalist system and its representatives.
It is in this context that Dennis Kucinich, a six time congressional incumbent from Ohio, who is now in his second run for U.S. president, has generated interest among those disaffected with the “business as usual” politicians. Kucinich presents himself as a “progressive alternative”, and to his credit he stands out favorably on many issues when compared to the rest of the mainstream candidates. He has been a vocal and consistent opponent of the War on Iraq from the very outset, calling for a full withdrawal of U.S. troops. He has said that if he wins the presidency, his “first acts in office will be to cancel NAFTA and the WTO”. He is also the only presidential candidate who openly opposes for-profit health care in favor of a national single-payer system. |
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Written by The Editorial Board
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
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Editorial for SA #34 Whether you live in Philadelphia, Seattle, Detroit, Mexico City, or Baghdad, most working people would agree that quality jobs, health care, education, housing and infrastructure isn’t too much to ask for. Instead, capitalism gives us war, racism, economic turmoil, and unemployment. And it’s not as though the money isn’t there – over $2 billion is spent each week just on the occupation of Iraq – it’s a matter of priorities. Just imagine how many badly-needed schools, bridges and hospitals could be built, providing quality jobs for millions of people in the process. |
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Written by John Peterson
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
 After Blackwater USA’s recent street shoot out in Baghdad, which resulted in as many as 17 civilian deaths, the role of mercenaries in Iraq has received extra attention in the media. Although they have played a key role in the occupation of Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, these “private security contractors” have for the most part flown under the public radar. For example, the debate over a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq usually centers around the 160,000 military personnel occupying the country. But what about the estimated 182,000 private contractors now deployed in Iraq? During the 1991 Gulf War, the troop-to-private contractor ratio was about 60 to 1. Now they outnumber uniformed troops, more than doubling the actual size of the occupation force. |
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Written by Mark Vorpahl
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Monday, 15 October 2007 |
 The case of the Jena Six has hit a nerve in the U.S. and internationally not because of the uniqueness of the injustices perpetuated against these young African-American men, but because these injustices fit an all to familiar pattern. From the social situation that existed at Jena’s High School with its echos of the Jim Crow era, to the flagrant racial double standard of Jena’s legal authorities, the case of the Jena Six has played out like a crystallized version of much that is intolerable for those who must deal both with the oppression of being working class and being black in the US. The mass reaction to the Jena Six’s case also demonstrates another truth about racism. Any system that divides working people inevitably produces an opposition and this opposition can potentially help to unite the working class against not only racism but its root source, capitalism, as well. |
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