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Dec 11 2009
Cindy Sheehan’s Lesson
Original article, by David Macaray and subtitled We Need to Embarrass Ourselves, via counterpunch.com:
One of the most astonishing and demoralizing comments I ever heard was in response to Cindy Sheehan’s August, 2005, anti-war demonstrations outside George W. Bush’s Prarie Chapel Ranch (near Crawford, Texas). A commentator declared that, by protesting in so public and defiant a fashion, Sheehan had, in fact, “embarrassed” herself.
Dec 10 2009
Sparks of resistance in the labor movement?
Original article, subtitled Lee Sustar reports on signs of movement among the union movement’s rank and file, via Socialist Worker (US):
AFTER A grim year for organized labor, those committed to class-struggle unionism can find a few good reasons to be cheerful this holiday season.
Dec 05 2009
Obama jobs summit: “No money for jobs”
Original article, by Barry Grey, via World Socialist Web Site:
Thursday’s White House summit on jobs was an open display of the callousness and indifference of President Barack Obama and the American corporate elite to the plight of the working class.
Dec 04 2009
Public Menace-Private Profit: America’s Biowarfare Alliance
Original article via Antifacist Calling:
In September, The New York Times reported that a
University of Chicago researcher, Malcolm Casadaban, died after exposure to “a
weakened and ordinarily harmless strain of the bacteria that cause plague.”
Dec 03 2009
John Pilger – Obama and Empire
Well worth the look in light of Obama’s escalation in Afghanistan.
Dec 01 2009
Lindorff: Obama as the Manchurian Candidate
Original article, by Dave Lindorff and subtitled Hope Deflated, via counterpuhttp://counterpunch.comnch.com:
Nov 28 2009
Ireland’s public sector strike day: Crocodile tears won’t stem the tide
Original article, by Séamus Loughlin, via Socialist Appeal (UK):
Ireland: Well over 250,000 Irish workers in the public sector were on strike on the 24th of this month. There would have been many more, but the unions guaranteed emergency cover including flood relief in the west, the midlands and the Shannon area and in Cork City. It’s a feature of every major strike, not just here, but throughout the world, that the well fed representatives of the bourgeois and particularly the mean spirited and greedy petty bourgeois attempt to criticise and attack the worker’s movement. These fine gentlemen and ladies are always the first to reach for the box of tissues as they weep crocodile tears about the poor and the vulnerable who they claim (wringing their hands in woe) are being let down by the strikers. The fact that the government have been slashing and burning public services for the last year and attacking the vulnerable seems conveniently to have been forgotten.
Nov 26 2009
German politicians, media warn about the next global financial crisis
Original article, by Peter Schwarz, via World Socialist Web Site:
Within Germany’s top political circles fear is growing of a second international financial crash exceeding in intensity and impact that of autumn 2008.
Nov 23 2009
No light bulb will shine, no wheel will move, without the permission of the workers of this world.
Original article, by Jutta Schmitt – University of Los Andes (ULA) senior lecturer in political sciences, via In Defence of Marxism:
Alan Woods held a meeting with workers and students last night (November 19) in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of The Andes in Merida (Venezuela), to talk about the systemic crisis of capitalism on a world wide scale.
Nov 19 2009
Honduras: the farcical agreement is exposed – boycott the elections!
Original article, by Jorge Martin, via Socialist Appeal (UK):
As we explained in a previous article , the Tegucigalpa/San José Accord signed on October 30 by representatives of the legitimate president of Honduras, Mel Zelaya, and those of the coup regime of Micheletti, was in reality a farce.
Nov 10 2009
Why the U.S. has to go
Original article, an interview with Malalai Joya via socialistworker.org: