The world was filled with revulsion when a Taliban shooter tried to assassinate 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai last Oct. 9 in Pakistan. How cowardly to shoot up a rickety school bus… Read more »
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Freedom Socialist Letters to the editor December 2012
ELECTION 2012 Great candidates It was so good to vote for two people I know for president and vice president, Stephen and Christina. To vote for socialists. To vote for… Read more »
Labor Weather Report – December 2012
November 2012 — Indian auto workers fight. To stop an independent union organizing drive, Maruti Suzuki India fires 546 workers and has 149 jailed after a management provoked altercation at… Read more »
Israeli bombs and Palestinian resistance: Assault on Gaza spurs further outrage and broadens anti-occupation solidarity
The mayhem that fell upon Gaza last November raised to new heights the Israeli government’s sinister subjugation of Palestinians. It also invigorated Palestinian resistance and prompted worldwide denunciation. The lies… Read more »
Egyptians defend their revolution
Outraged Egyptians took to the streets in January 2011 and toppled their military dictator of 30 years, Hosni Mubarak. Ever since, they have been in the streets and the face… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Spreading Middle East conflicts: US to blame
Not one day passes without new torment in the Middle East. Israel brazenly bombs Syria, assassinates Iranian nuclear scientists, and invites the U.S. to nuke Iran. Civil war continues to… Read more »
Syria’s raging civil war: Historic conflict of the haves vs. have-nots
For the first time in history, most of the peoples of the Middle East are immersed in a revolutionary process, one that burst out about two and half years ago…. Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — Assaults on women put Egypt’s revolt in danger
Millions of Egyptians have again risen up against their repressive and incompetent government. In less than a year they concluded that “elections” do not mean real democracy, and that a… Read more »
Syrian revolutionaries defy Assad, jihadists, and imperialists
With the eruption of the Arab Spring in 2011, all revolutionary hell broke out in the Middle East. In Syria, unwavering rebels are fighting a civil war — militarily and… Read more »
Palestine/Israel peace talks: a shameless deceit
The British empire handed over the lands of Palestine to Jewish Zionists to create the state of Israel after World War II, when the U.S. took over as main imperialist… Read more »