Perspectives
Right-wing march in Washington against Obama health care plan
By Joe Kishore and Barry Grey, September 14, 2009
Right-wing groups organized a demonstration in Washington to denounce the Obama administration, with particular focus on the proposed health care overhaul outlined in the president’s speech before C...
Following massacre in Kunduz
Left Party comes to the aid of German government
By Stefan Steinberg, September 12, 2009
Following the massacre in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the German Left Party has expressed its readiness to discuss an “exit strategy” with Germany’s ruling parties.
Eight years since 9/11
The pretext for a historic shift in world politics
By Patrick Martin, September 11, 2009
September 11, 2001 marked a watershed in US imperialist policy. Each new outrage—invasions, torture, kidnappings, domestic spying, flouting of constitutional norms—was justified with the all-purpo...
Profiting on death
By Joe Kishore, September 10, 2009
The latest speculative security on Wall Street will allow investors to bet on declining life expectancy.
European powers seek UN cover for war in Afghanistan
By Alex Lantier, September 10, 2009
Plans for a United Nations conference on Afghanistan early next year are a political fraud directed against the Afghan people and the working class.
The historic decline of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party
By Peter Symonds, September 9, 2009
The ignominious electoral collapse of the LDP amid the greatest global economic crisis since the 1930s is another sign that politics, not only in Japan but internationally, is entering uncharted and s...
Against European calls for UN conference on Afghanistan
By Alex Lantier, September 8, 2009
Plans for a United Nations conference on Afghanistan early next year are a political fraud directed against the Afghan people and the working class.
The dismissal of Van Jones
By Joe Kishore, September 7, 2009
Responding to pressure from the extreme right over his aide’s previously held oppositional views, Obama dismissed “environmental jobs czar” Van Jones.
Big banks grow more powerful under Obama
By Andre Damon, September 5, 2009
As a result of the government’s bailout, the largest US banks are gaining control of an ever greater share of financial markets and using their monopolistic position to gouge consumers and small bus...
For the mobilization of the working class to end the war in Afghanistan
By Joe Kishore, September 4, 2009
There are clear signs of growing popular opposition in the US and around the world to the war in Afghanistan, as the Obama administration readies another major increase in the US troop presence.
Seventy years since the beginning of World War II
By Nick Beams, September 3, 2009
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the onset of World War II.
Japan’s new government: Promise and reality
By John Chan, September 2, 2009
The gulf between the limited election pledges of the Democrats and the social realities facing broad layers of working people will quickly become evident.
