Below are excerpts, edited additionally for length, from a 1999 Freedom Socialist Party position paper analyzing the roots of the economic crisis that began in Asia two years earlier. Called… Read more »
economy
The Healthcare Bait and Switch
Candidate Obama’s promise to reform healthcare lit a torch of hope for millions of people. No more postponing doctor visits or feeling helpless before unaffordable medical bills. But meaningful change… Read more »
California’s budget woes: will politicians use crisis as opportunity to privatize education?
With the arrival of fall, students and teachers trek back to schools and campuses in the Golden State. But instead of the usual talk of halcyon summer days, the buzz… Read more »
Tax the rich: Oregon referendum a promising test case
Do you know anyone who pays only $10 in state taxes – anyone at all? Sure you do; they are two-thirds of the corporations doing business in the state of… Read more »
The myth of the jobless recovery
A recent graduate approaches a community college employee with whom he has worked in the past as an intern, maintaining the school ventilation system. He is looking for a full-time… Read more »
Healthcare: the incredible shrinking public option
Fifty million people in the U.S. lack healthcare; 18 thousand die every year because of it. Other industrialized countries have universal coverage, yet costs in the U.S. are more than… Read more »
Los mortíferos frutos del neoliberalismo
Un hemisferio indivisible: la Revolución Permanente y el neoliberalismo en América, de Guerry Hoddersen, fue adoptado en la convención de 2006 en EEUU del Partido de Libertad Socialista. A continuación… Read more »
La privatización: Los saqueos de la riqueza pública causan resistencia en todo el mundo
“¿Cómo es posible vender o comprar el cielo? ¿El calor de la tierra? Nosotros no somos dueños de la frescura del aire ni del chisporroteo del agua”. Con frecuencia se… Read more »
The deadly fruits of neoliberalism
One Hemisphere Indivisible: Permanent Revolution and Neoliberalism in the Americas, by Guerry Hoddersen, was adopted at the 2006 U.S. convention of the Freedom Socialist Party. Excerpts are below. — Free-traders… Read more »
Privatization: Resistance spreads worldwide to raids on public wealth
“How can you buy or sell the sky? The warmth of the land? We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water.” These words… Read more »
