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Written by Michael Hureaux Perez
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
 On March 4th, students and workers in over one hundred locations throughout the United States marched against the education policies of the Obama administration. The largest turnouts were at several locations in the state of California, one of the states hardest hit by the current economic crisis. |
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Written by Graeme Anfinson
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
 This article analyzes the "American values" Obama made note of in his State of the Union address. It explains that the notion of such "American Values" serves the interests of the ruling class, as it serves to conceal the irreconcilable class interests that exist between the working class and the capitalist class. The role of the individual in history and exploitation in the process of production are also explained. |
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Written by David May
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
 On January 24th, the US Supreme Court, by a 5-4 decision, ruled to remove the remaining spending limits on corporate involvement in elections. The ruling has been criticized by many as a dangerous encroachment by the wealthiest corporate interests and an undermining of free, democratic elections. But even before the court’s decision, corporate cash remained a prime mover of both capitalist parties in Congress and the White House. |
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Written by Tom Anderson
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
 On July 1st, 2009, when Utah’s Senate Bill 81 (or “SB81”) took effect, undocumented immigrant workers across the state instantly had a lot more to worry about. Since then, many immigrants have been deported for minor offenses, such as having an open container of alcohol or speeding. The deeper result, of course, has been an overall increase in the feelings of fear and terror instilled in the hearts and minds of the immigrant community all over the state. |
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Written by Graeme Anfinson
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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
 In Obama's State of the Union address, the President called for "national unity." It's definitely in the interest of the people who collect profit off of other people's work to assure us we all share the same set of "American values." They want us to believe we're "all in this together" when really they're parasites living off our sweat. |
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Written by Antonio Bâlmer
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Monday, 25 January 2010 |
 In the society in which we currently find ourselves, class society, a small minority of the population holds ownership and control over industry, banks and all major means for producing wealth. Because we, the workers, do not get to enjoy this wealth, although we create it, our lives are reduced to working for wages that disappear when we pay the bills. How does the ruling class keep us putting up with such a lifestyle?
One way is the fact that the ruling class’s ideology permeates contemporary culture and dominates the media. |
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Written by Tom Trottier and John Peterson
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Monday, 25 January 2010 |
 This article takes note of the effects of the recession on workers in the USA (high unemployment, low wages, threats of losing homes, etc.) and how Obama is continuing Bush's program of spending billions of dollars bailing out Wall Street. The union leadership told workers that voting the Democrats into Congress and the White House would change things, but where is this change? As the Workers International League explained, voting for the "lesser evil" in a system dominated by two corporate parties would bring about an immediate "evil." People then get tired after no real change and end up bringing the "greater evil" back into power. This is precisely what happened in Massachusetts. |
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Written by Paul Joseph Poposky
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
 On Christmas Eve morning, Senate Democrats followed through on their promise to pass their version of a health insurance reform bill before the Christmas Holiday, delivering what has been hailed by many liberal commentators in major media outlets as an “early Christmas gift.” However, American workers concerned about the rising costs of health care, the poor quality of service provided by private insurance for those who can even afford it, and the millions of people left behind by for-profit, market based health care ought not get too excited about the Affordable Health Care for America Act. |
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Written by Juan Jesus Rojas
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Friday, 15 January 2010 |
 The Capitalist crisis has plunged the state of California into its worst budget crisis in history. Billions of dollars have been already slashed from the budget and billions more will be cut this year in order to“fix” the shortfall of $20.7 billion. Unable to find any other solution on the basis of Capitalism, workers and students will bear the brunt of these cuts. |
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Written by Paul J. Poposky
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 |
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 The first semiannual Left-Wing School of the Greater St. Louis/Metro-aast saw attendance and participation from local students, educators, concerned citizens, and Left activists which exceeded expectations. The School featured a diverse array of speakers from the Workers International League-International Marxist Tendency (WIL-IMT), the Autonomy Alliance, the Gay-Straight Alliance at SIUE, and the Metroeast Progressive Movement (MPM), as well as college professors and representatives of a local workers’ collective.
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