As California politicians pass the buck for the budget crisis, many of the state's most vulnerable are losing the meager services on which their lives depend. September 24, 2008 Previously published ...

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The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left--but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism. CAPITALISM HAS had ...

Since its national conference in January, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain, the country's largest revolutionary organization, has been shaken by the most severe crisis in its history, ...

Nancy MacLean tells the story of the Populist movement of the 1890s--when it briefly challenged the hold of white supremacy in the U.S. South. IT WAS an event without precedent in the South. On a few ...

ELECTION NIGHT left millions feeling elated with the end of eight long years of Republican rule, but there was a bitter note at the end of the night--the passage of Proposition 8 in California, which ...

The united front is a method for organizing used by socialists to build the unity of broader forces in action--in the hopes of both achieving immediate aims and winning wider layers of workers to ...

Edgar Esquivel, a longtime member of an important Teamster local in Southern California, reports on the battle to reform the union. MEMBERS OF Teamsters Local 952 in Orange County, Calif., are ...

LARRY BRADSHAW and LORRIE BETH SLONSKY are emergency medical services (EMS) workers from San Francisco and contributors to Socialist Worker. They were attending an EMS conference in New Orleans when ...

THE MARXIST approach to understanding war as a product of economic rivalries spilling over into political and military conflicts has long been dismissed as out of date, even by some people on the left ...

LAST WEEK, the Bush administration was forced to admit that a genocide is taking place in western Sudan--carried out by a regime that the U.S. had hoped to bring into its camp. Stories of the horror ...

JOHN KERRY and the Democrats made a big show at their convention in Boston of pledging to run a principled campaign against George W. Bush. "The high road may be harder, but it leads to a better place ...