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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 »
CCSF: Joint student, staff, and faculty organizing needed to save working-class school
City College of San Francisco (CCSF) was beating the odds against public education, under increased attack since the economic meltdown of 2008. Even though the state cut the college’s funding… Read more »
2012: Un año de osada rebelión pero sin resolución
En el año 2012 se ha visto a los trabajadores y estudiantes de todo el mundo aún apaleados por la austeridad — y aún luchando en forma nunca antes superada,… Read more »