Legislators and the rightwing political machine are out to get the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Why? Not because the Internet has replaced snail mail. It hasn’t. A lot of people… Read more »
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Jerry Brown shreds California safety net
Gov. Brown’s 2012 budget includes cutting welfare services again, eliminating Healthy Families which serves 900,000 children, and more reductions of Medi-Cal, childcare and home health aid. “This is the best… Read more »
La campaña presidencial no millonaria: El Partido de Libertad Socialista responde a un juego político tramposo
Para obtener una copia descargable de este artículo, haga clic aquí. Probablemente el año 2011 será registrado en la historia, justo como se hizo en la cubierta de la revista… Read more »
The un-millionaire presidential campaign: FSP’s answer to a rigged political system
For a downloadable copy of this article, click here. [PDF, 274kB] 2011 will probably register in history, as it did on Time magazine’s cover, as the year of the protester…. Read more »
Mumia Abu-Jamal: No matter their color, politicians are failing people in hard times
In December 2011, Black revolutionary Mumia Abu-Jamal finally overturned a death sentence imposed in 1982 when he was framed for a cop’s murder. After leaving death row, Abu-Jamal was still… Read more »
Europe: hot zone of the economic crisis
The word austere comes from the Greek austeros, meaning “bitter” or “harsh,” originally referring to wine that “makes the tongue dry.” The economic austerity that Greek workers, youth, and pensioners… Read more »
The Greek crisis and you: lessons of a political sea change
Greece is several hours ahead of the U.S. on world clocks. But midnight will strike in Washington as surely as it does in Athens. Draconian austerity plans already begun in… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial: Quebec student victory against the odds
A SUSTAINED AND MIGHTY student strike movement in Quebec has brought down a provincial government. Running on a law-and-order platform, the defeated Premier Jean Charest and his party specifically targeted… Read more »
Poor and criminalized: a feminist scholar exposes the welfare-to-prison pipeline
Talking to Rebecca Castner, one is instantly drawn to her intensity. A Ph.D. graduate from Women Studies at the University of Washington, Castner has researched how poor mothers, in particular… Read more »
In Spain, workers’ passionate fight against austerity measures
The streets of cities and towns across Spain ring with chants. “It’s not a crisis, it’s daylight robbery!” “Hands up, this is a stick up!” The worldwide scenario of governments… Read more »
