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Seven Years Since Hurricane Katrina

Seven years ago today, hurricane Katrina crashed into the US Gulf Coast. Seven years later, devastation, poverty, racism, and exploitation continue to hammer the workers of Louisiana.

Rocky Anderson’s Justice Party: A Third Party Alternative?

From 2000 to 2008 Anderson served two terms as Mayor of Salt Lake City here in Utah. In August of 2011,  the former mayor came out publicly against the Democratic Party and President Obama. It […]

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Louisiana: Prisoner of Capitalism

The United State imprisons more of its citizens than any other country on the planet. Yet, Louisiana’s rate trumps the national average, with one out of every 86 adults behind bars.

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Motherhood in America

You would expect from a rich capitalist country like the US that the position of women and the circumstances for motherhood would be some of the best in the world. This is far from the […]

Gore Vidal Has Died

We republish the article The decline and fall of the American Empire by Alan Woods to pay tribute to the prominent US writer and intellectual Gore Vidal who has died on July 31st, aged 86.

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The Afghanistan Nightmare

The latest murders in Kandahar province, where 16 innocent Afghanis, including nine children, were shot dead by a rampaging US staff sergeant, have further added to the turmoil and agony in Afghanistan.

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Quality Jobs for All Now!

We’ve now entered the long, hot summer of the 2012 electoral campaign farce. Both Democrats and Republicans are positioning themselves for the last leg of the political marathon, kicking clouds of dust in the faces […]

The crisis of European capitalism – Part Two

The prospect of a Syriza government caused a wave of panic in the bourgeoisie of Greece and internationally. They organized a massive campaign to drive people away from Syriza, warning of economic catastrophe if they […]

The crisis of European capitalism – Part One

The crisis of the euro resembles a long drawn-out death agony. There is one “decisive” summit after another, each proclaiming a definitive end to the euro crisis. The markets rally for a few hours or […]

Letter to the Editor by WIL Member Printed in Minneapolis Star Tribune

We republish here a letter to the editor, written by John Peterson of the Workers International League, originally published in the July 16th edition of the Minneapolis Star Tribune in response to an article that […]

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KONY and Social Media

A video titled “KONY 2012” recently made the rounds of the internet via various social networks. The video, which is approximately thirty minutes long, is designed to make the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony internationally known […]

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Remembering a Lincoln Veteran: on the Life of Harry Fisher – An Interview with Ulrich Kolbe

The following interview with Ulrich Kolbe is centered on his friend and comrade, Harry Fisher. Harry was a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, an all-volunteer force made up of more than 2,000 American workers […]