SOCIALIST CANDIDATES Dangers of reformism Your recent article, “Sign of the times: Kshama Sawant of Socialist Alternative unseats Seattle Democrat” [Vol. 34, No. 6], does an excellent job of connecting… Read more »
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Labor Weather Report, February 2014: A glance at how some workers and their unions are faring in the class struggle.
December 2013 — Fight for $15. Inspired by those who won $15 per hour wages in Sea-Tac, Wash., miserably paid fast food, hotel and airport workers across the USA took… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Fallujah: resistance by any other name …
Ten years ago during the Iraq War, Fallujah residents endured the bloodiest U.S. military assault since the Vietnam War. Massive ground and air bombing, including depleted uranium and white phosphorus,… Read more »
The sham of democracy in Afghanistan
The invasion of Afghanistan led to the longest conflict in U.S. history. It has decimated an ancient land and its people, and enhanced the power and wealth of war criminals… Read more »
Fundamentalist onslaught in Iraq: made in USA
Ali supported the U.S. overthrow of Saddam Hussein and worked for “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” All the more reason for his outrage at the destruction unfolding in Iraq. Now living in… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial: More Israeli madness
From the moment three Israeli teens disappeared on June 12, the government declared the Palestinian group Hamas guilty, and launched a revenge campaign on the West Bank. Soldiers sealed off… Read more »
The boycott against Israel: which side is music on?
Is art a vague, individualistic pursuit of human creativity, divorced from any other reality or social accountability? Can we act as artists and ignore others being starved, beaten and imprisoned… Read more »
Unstoppable revolt in the Middle East — Analysis: the US role and the road ahead
The insurrections of the Arab Spring still live. The revolutionary shock waves that have brought new life to ancient lands, terrifying the powers-that-be, are not spent. Bloodthirsty reaction from dictators… Read more »
Freedom Socialist Letters to the editor, October 2014
WOMEN WARRIORS Mary Anne Grady Flores for free speech We sat stunned in the packed courtroom on July 10 as a town justice sentenced longtime Catholic Worker activist Mary Anne… Read more »
An Israeli-born scholar discusses war hysteria and peace activism
Raya Fidel, born and raised in Israel, is a retired professor of Information Science at the University of Washington. She was interviewed by Tamara Turner in August 2014. Tamara Turner… Read more »
