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Written by Shane Jones
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
 On Friday, February 27th, after a round of congratulations for the imperialist war leaders, Barack Obama explained the course that the Iraq War would take under his administration. Far from an honest depiction of the war, Obama's speech glorified the war, painting it in the language of poetic nationalism and with heroic lingo. |
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Written by In Defence of Marxism
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
 Last weekend more than 100 revolutionaries from Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, El Salvador, the USA, Canada, Ecuador, Cuba, Guatemala, gathered in Mexico City for the first Pan-American Marxist School of the International Marxist Tendency. A new tri-lingual Pan-American journal of the IMT, America Socialista, was also launched at the event. |
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Written by Tom Trottier
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
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 In a recent article by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), statistics show that union membership in the U.S. has grown for the second year in a row. It is no surprise that many workers are turning to the labor movement and joining unions as a way to fight back against the bosses, as the crisis of capitalism continues to unfold.
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Written by John Peterson
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
 On Thursday, February 26, the Marxist Tendency “Militante” had called a meeting in Mexico DF for Alan Woods to present his latest book Reformism or Revolution. Marxism and socialism of the 21st Century – a reply to Heinz Dieterich. Trotsky's grandson Esteban Volkov also addressed the meeting. |
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Written by Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
 In 2008, the number of suicides in the U.S. armed forces increased yet again, to 128 confirmed and 15 pending further investigation, having risen every year since 2004. All indications are that things will only continue to get worse in 2009. What is perhaps most disturbing is that Lt. Col. Mike Moose, who is a spokesperson for Army personnel issues, claims that, “we have not identified any particular problem.” |
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Written by Paul J. Poposky
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
 On January 10th and 11th, over 150 union leaders and representatives from 31 states met in St. Louis, Missouri to discuss and share strategies at the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare conference. The WIL fights for a socialist health care system, in which all people are covered for free at the point of service. This means the hospitals, clinics, HMOs, medical machine industry, medical schools, drug companies and the insurance companies would be nationalized under democratic workers’ control. |
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Written by Shane Jones
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Sunday, 01 March 2009 |
 Marxists are in favor of every reform that increases the workers’ class consciousness, confidence, political and social power. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is a welcome, albeit only partial clearing of the thicket of legal restrictions on workers’ rights to organize themselves into unions. |
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Written by The Editorial Board
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Saturday, 28 February 2009 |
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 The capitalist system may well be suffering the worst crisis in its history. According to George Soros, billionaire investor and frank analyst of the system he defends, the world financial system has in effect disintegrated and there is no possibility of a near-term resolution to the crisis. In 2007 there were a total of three bank failures. Last year there were 25. As of this writing, 13 have failed in the first few weeks of 2009.
Editorial for Socialist Appeal 45 |
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Written by Socialist Appeal
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Thursday, 19 February 2009 |
 Late on Thursday, February 19, we received this report on the NYU occupation from Tom Trottier, a WIL member and trade union member in New York City. |
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Written by Socialist Appeal
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Monday, 16 February 2009 |
 Stella D'Oro makes cookies, bread sticks, biscotti cookies and other baked goods. The Stella D'Oro bakery was bought several years ago by a private equity firm called Brynwood Partners. This firm forced the Teamsters, who delivered the products from the factory to the stores, to go on strike, and then defeated the union. This work is now done by non-union companies. Brynwood Partners is now trying to destroy the factory workers' union, Bakers, Confectionery, Tobacco workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM), Local 50. Socialist Appeal recently interviewed shop steward Mike Filippou about the strike. |
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