US Elections & Politics
US Republicans target ACORN: the great “voter fraud” fraud
By Tom Eley, October 18, 2008
A community activist group called ACORN has become a lightning rod for Republican attacks on voting rights as the US presidential election approaches.
In defense of Bill Ayers
By David Walsh, October 17, 2008
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona and his supporters are continuing to pursue their smear campaign against former Weatherman radical Bill Ayers, now a professor at the Univ...
A political farce, not a debate
By Patrick Martin, October 17, 2008
Wednesday’s nationally televised encounter between Barack Obama and John McCain was less a debate than a ritualized episode of a peculiarly American form of political theater.
Obama floats economic plan: tax breaks and austerity
By Bill Van Auken, Socialist Equality Party candidate for vice president, October 15, 2008
On the eve of the Bush administration’s announcement that is injecting another $250 billion into the banks, Barack Obama unveiled his “rescue plan for the middle class.”
The revolutionary implications of the decline of American capitalism—Part 2
By Barry Grey, October 14, 2008
Today we are posting the concluding part of the report delivered by WSWS National Editor Barry Grey to the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party on August 9, 2008. The first part was poste...
The revolutionary implications of the decline of American capitalism
By Barry Grey, October 13, 2008
WSWS National Editor Barry Grey delivered the following report to the Founding Congress of the Socialist Equality Party on August 9, 2008.
Letters from our readers
October 11, 2008
The following is a selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
McCain-Palin campaign’s attacks on Obama: a whiff of fascism
By Bill Van Auken, Socialist Equality Party candidate for vice president, October 10, 2008
Faced with dwindling poll numbers and an increasingly hostile political environment created by the economy's dizzying downward spiral, the Republican campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin has respon...
Wall Street crashes amid mounting signs of global recession
By Peter Symonds, October 10, 2008
With a further dramatic plunge on Wall Street yesterday, the US and global economic crisis has entered a new stage, spreading from the financial system to the productive foundations of the economy.
Second US presidential debate
Obama, McCain offer platitudes in the face of an economic disaster
By Patrick Martin, October 9, 2008
The second presidential election debate between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain was an exercise in political deception, as both candidates sought to evade the implications of the US a...
Picked to direct the Wall Street bailout: Who is Neel Kashkari?
By Alex Lantier, October 8, 2008
In pushing the bailout, its supporters--particularly Democratic congressional leaders and presidential candidate Barack Obama-claimed there would be "transparency" and "oversight" safeguards. The nomi...
SEP election meetings
The origins and implications of the financial crisis: A Marxist analysis
October 7, 2008
Between now and Election Day, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White and vice presidential candidate Bill Van Auken will speak at a series of meetings throughout the country. The ...
