http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog News and Commentary from a World Socialist Perspective Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:21:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Was there really a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners or were the police just using a pretext to fish for information by rounding up and questioning people they suspected were up to something without knowing precisely what? Will ministers eventually say, as they did after the killing ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=106 Since the end of the Second World War, when the US forced the Italian government to discharge its Communist Party cabinet members as a prerequisite for aid, to its support for the coup attempt in Venezuela in 2003, the US has been regularly subverting elections around the globe for the ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=105 National nonsense Nationalism is utterly opposed to socialism. Socialists therefore oppose nationalism in all its forms. It might be supposed that people who profess an interest in the doings of human beings—such as, say, journalists—might well consider a solid and determined strike by nurses over pay to be a worthwhile subject for ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=104 Easter sees the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion against British rule in Ireland. The Irish Cabinet – specifically, the government of the Republic of Ireland – and members of the Dail will watch as the Irish army marches past the General Post Office in Dublin’s O’Connell Street where Pearse ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=103 Have you ever heard the expression: “we must smash capitalism”? It’s a very popular expression among so-called revolutionists of the Leninist variety. It isn’t easy to figure out exactly what they mean by it but one gets the impression that the capitalist state, in all of its ramifications, must be ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=102 Workers in Colombia are amongst the poorest in the world yet live in an area rich in natural resources. Colombia’s complex and on-going war between the government’s armed forces, drug producers and traffickers, leftist guerrillas and rightist paramilitaries, with blurred distinctions between each side, continues. Trade unionists, students, activists, journalists ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=100 The fuss over the Danish cartoons of Mohammed has not been the only recent event that has raised the issue of free speech. There was also the government’s failed attempt to make it more difficult to criticise religion. There were the trials of the BNP leaders and of the Muslim ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=99 I know! Just for fun, lets have a “football pool” for when the invasion of Iran will start. Even though, according to the IAEA there is “no evidence of a nuclear weapons program or any diversion of nuclear material” in Iran after “go anywhere, see anything” inspections that allowed IAEA ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=98 I used to work on the help desk of the top software producer in the world. You know the one. The one that produced the worlds richest man. Microsoft. I was a contractor as were most of us on the desk. This was the arrangement so the large, multinational corporation, ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=97 If capitalism was a circus, the current hype created by the UAE Company buying six US ports is a sideshow. The Bush administration accepts the move as capitalism ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=96 My employeer, albertsons, recently shut down my store. While business was going great, the company decided to re-0pen as a subsidiary that specializes in high end gourmet food and catering services. While owned by albertsons, Bristol Farms is not under union contract; they operate under their own employment regulations. My ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=95 Let 2005 rest then, as a monument. A gravestone for the 6 million children the Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates died in the hideous torture of starvation and starvation related disease that year. The FAO report, released on 22 November, also informs us that malnourishment also contributes to holding back ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=94 The dangers of many perilous jobs in capitalism became apparent today when 13 miners became trapped in a coalmine in W. Virginia. The miners became trapped after a lighting strike caused an explosion. While the needs of capitalism such as profit and expansion are met on a daily basis, the needs ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=93 It seems that Dr. Jack Kevorkian needs a little of his own medicine, so to speak. The Michigan state parole board rejected a request to pardon the doctor or commute his sentence, even though he is in grave medical condition. He is currently serving a 10-25 year sentence for his ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=92 Is this issue of “Happy Holiday” vs. “Merry Christmas” really an issue? I mean, it wasn’t last year, or the year before that, and while new issues spring up all the time, I don’t think anything has changed that would somehow make “Merry Christmas” an issue. While many Christians, and right ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=91 Wednesday 16 November was a quiet day in France. Only 163 cars were burnt by urban rioters in the whole of France and the state of emergency was lifted in some places and re-imposed in others. The urban unrest of the last two weeks is fading away, leaving some dead ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=90 We have received the following report on the recent riots in France as seen by a migrant worker there. At the end of October there was a heavy riot in the suburbs of Paris as a result of a police identity card control. Three African immigrants, one from the west coast ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=89 Wednesday, Dec. 7th is Pearl Harbor Day, a day that looks to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese military in 1941. Of course, no one ever calls it America Gets Out of Economic Collapse Day, even though 2,390 deaths, 1,178 injuries, 21 sunken ships, and ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=88 Monday marked the beginning of a New Jersey bear hunt with the intention of thinning the population. Over 5,000 hunters gathered for the 6-day hunt to thin a bear population estimated at 1,600 to 3,200 bears. With an increase in the number of bears, and the encroachment of human development ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=87 Due to scandal after scandal, the city of San Diego has taken the self-proclaimed title of “America’s Finest City” off of the city’s official Website. In recent years, San Diego has been one of America’s most corruptible. Most recently is congressmen Duke Cunningham’s stepping down from office after pleading guilty ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=86 Early this evening, Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th person to be executed in the United States since 1976, the year the capital punishment was brought back by the US Supreme Court. This milestone is a good time to take a quick look at capital punishment. It, like prisons, is a ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=85 Nature can sometimes do worse things than capitalism. An earthquake kills 40,000 in a few minutes. A tsunami wipes out 200,000 in hours. And now the Department of Health contingency plan for bird flu in Britain is contemplating a ‘not impossible’ 750,000 deaths if the H5N1 virus goes pandemic. The ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=84 You must have heard the song by Woody Guthrie: “This land is your land, This land is my land, … “ It should be, but in fact it isn’t. Many millions of working people own no land at all. Those who are a bit better off own the small plot on which their ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=83 On Tuesday night, the numbers for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot, which is played in 12 U.S. states, where picked for the $315 million jackpot. The winners, who where 7 hospital employees from Orange County (a.k.a. The OC), will each be getting $45 million. Despite their newfound riches, they all ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=82 On Wednesday, Nov 15th, the Ford Motor Company issued a recall for over 200,000 vehicles. There where two separate recalls, one for a cable rubbing up against the frame of the car, exposing wires, and the second was for a metal strap the held up the fuel tank. While no ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=81 The recent raucous presidential election of a year ago fading into the foggy past, our nation has had its deficient political attentions buzzed about, alighting on the replacement of two Supreme court Justices, illegal immigrants, scandals involving CIA agents, hurricanes, brain-dead women, faulty intelligence justifying the war in Iraq, and ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=80 While not as big as the presidential election we see every four years, many states have important votes that will determine how capitalism will continue to be administered by the politicians, some of whom are being voted for today as well. Cities such as New York and my own San ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=79 Saturday in Argentina marked the end of the two-day FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) summit. The summit ended with the leaders of 34 nations unable to agree on when to restart talks that will create a trade zone from Alaska to Chile. While supporters for the “free” trade zone ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=78 Presidents Bush’s satisfaction numbers are dwindling across the US, with the war on terror, Iraq, the lack of preparedness for bad weather, and Karl Rove leading the way as ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=77 You can’t watch TV this week without hearing about Carl Rove, Lewis Libby, and a CIA agent’s cover being outed. This news is now being used as ammunition against the Bush administration, while Bush supporters are trying to limit his involvement in the matter. While this story is making all ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=76 The disaster following Hurricane Katrina is yet another tragic result of a system that does not work in the best interests of its people in general. Relatively few of the deaths, which have as yet to be determined, will be directly attributable to the ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=75 Capital is a product of human labour turned into a social power. The social character of labour assumes an objective character in the products themselves, the abstract relationship between commodities and human beings. The social relationship between capital and labour translates itself into a class conflict - the class struggle. The increase in capital presupposes an ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=74 “The leadership of Oglaigh na h’Eireann has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. This will take effect from 4pm this afternoon. All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms” (Extract from IRA statement of 28 July) So the IRA has given up the gun for the ballot box ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=73 “We are all Zapatistas” has been painted on banners, walls and shouted at demonstrations in recent years. The slogan has been used by leftists, anarchists, advocates of fair-trade schemes and even for commercial gain. But who are the Zapatistas? The Zapatistas take their name from Emiliano Zapata who led the Ejército ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=72 I was reading Karl Marx’s “Capital” today and came across this paragraph: “That same “reformed” Parliament (of 1836), which in its delicate consideration for the manufacturers, condemned children under 13, for years to come, to 72 hours of work per week in the Factory Hell, on the other hand, in the ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=71 Among other blurbs on behalf of capitalism and its virtues, one of the more frequently heard is that the system creates opportunity open to all. Especially in the United States, the claim goes that anyone can succeed, anyone can prosper, that capitalism in the US is a land of ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=70 Last year, the Trotskyist online newspaper World Socialist Web Site, or WSWS (no relation to us and the World Socialist Movement), published a press release and an open letter to the Madrid based magazine Amanecer del Nuevo Siglo accusing them of translating and reprinting WSWS articles without their permission [10,8]. ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=67 In the second week of February the United Nations convened a meeting in Bangkok that, despite its importance, failed to make newspaper headlines or feature anywhere in news broadcasts. The lack of apparent newsworthiness, however, belies the meeting’s significance, for in time the issue under discussion could well turn out ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=66 From the BBC PM helps poor ‘eye sale’ mother Shefali Begum - her worries are easing The prime minister of Bangladesh has intervened to help a poor woman who advertised to sell an eye to raise funds for her daughter’s future. Shefali Begum has received offers of help from around the world ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=65 Let us make no mistake about it. The capitalist class is engaged in an ongoing class war with the working class. Those of us who must work for a living possess economic interests diametrically opposed to those who live off our surplus value. The recent Bankruptcy bill ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=64 I sent this letter to the editor to the Toledo Blade - of course it was not printed because it’s much more important to print 4 letters a day about Terry Schiavo: A recent Blade reader wrote a letter blaming the Republicans for some of the problems Americans might be experiencing. ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=63 Wow! A Self-Service aisle in the supermarket where I can code-bar swipe and bag my items on my own! This promises to save workers from performing such mindless drudgery like swiping and bagging my items for me! I check out my items under the watchful eye of the clerk. ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=62 I work in a water treatment plant that serves 450,000+ people. The job is a bit repetitive; rotating shifts 7 days in a row at a time, occasional 16-hour days, and working most holidays. It is not a hard job, but not at all glamorous. My job is ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=61 Well, over 1,000,000 homes watched the congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball earlier this month, which I guess puts the steroid issue in the category of important issue. For me, this is only another controversy during spring training, which means that the regular season is just around the corner ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=60 I find the Terry Shiavo case very interesting and confusing. I can see how both sides have a case. Terry’s husband, believing he is fulfilling his wife’s wishes of not being left a vegetable, has finally filed enough legal documents to get the feeding tube, the tube that also provides ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=59 has anyone ever noticed patterns to gas prices? Around here; a couple days before a holiday, prices drop about 20 cents on averate. The day after the holiday they are right back where they started. Hmm an oil abundance that lasted 4-5 days? Or a conspiracy to get people to travel ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=58 Don’t get me wrong, I think war sucks as much as the rest of you do, but I got to thinking, are our lives any better, in general, when we aren’t having a war. One of the strongest arguments against the war in Iraq have been that the money being wasted ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=57 While you might not be surprised to learn that it’s customary at Holocaust commemorative events for German politicians to remain silent [“Leaders mark Auschwitz liberation,” Boston Globe, 28 January 2005], you might find it interesting to know who else shows up at them. Remember the folks who brought 100,000 dead ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=56 This last weekend held the annual Academy awards, a night were the best cinema performances from the previous year are recognized. Movies, actors and actresses, directors, and even members of the production staffs are recognized for their efforts. While I enjoy going to a good movie as much as just about ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=55 Recently several blurbs I’ve heard on the news have caught my attention. There seems to be a lot of discussion and movements towards creating a “Livable wage”. While I agree that poverty and homelessness are a problem, what many fail to see is that it isn’t just in far off ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=54 The recent suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that took four more innocent lives remains a nauseating reminder of the brave lengths individuals will go to protest injustices in capitalism, but also remains an important lesson of the futility of protesting them in such violent ways. Israeli Cabinet minister Binyamin ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=52 On February 23, the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling ending the segregation of inmates in California by race, except under extraordinary circumstances. The main worry of this ruling is that forced racial integration will lead to extreme violence among gangs within ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=51 Review of the film ‘The Yes Men.” Directed by Chris Smith, Sarah Price and Dan Ollman. United Artists, 2003. Starring Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. 83 min. Rated R. Avail. DVD. “The Yes Men,” is a brilliantly funny satire and pseudo mock documentary which chronicles the exploits a group of political ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=50 The date, October 1988. I am 12 years old and I see on TV Kirk Gibson hit the amazing pinch-hit homerun against the Oakland Athletics at Dodger Stadium to win the first game of the 1988 World Series. While I have always been a Dodger fan, I for a long ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=49 Something not on the front pages of newspapers but is still interesting none the less was an AP article about a California school that is requiring students to where lo-jack type monitoring device that reports where students are at school, whether it be in class, or in the bathroom. The ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=48 I awake, realizing my alarm hasn’t gone off yet. My room is filled with daylight and I gasp as I jump out of bed. I am 2 hours late for work. I change into my uniform faster than any veteran fireman and run to the bathroom ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=47 In an Associated Press report earlier today, much of the tsunami aid that Sri Lanka is receiving is for the most part useless. Aid workers on the island report that many boxes contain things like winter coats, high-heeled shoes, and thong underwear. One box from Australia even contained bottles of ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=46 With peace talks on the horizon and attacks continuing, one has to wonder if the conflicts between Israel and Palestine will ever truly be resolved. This area of the world has been perhaps that most highly contested place on the planet. On the surface the conflict appears to be a ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=45 Earlier today, it was announced by the North Korean government that it was in the possession of nuclear weapons. It is thought that this could be a ploy to instill fear in other countries, particularly in the five countries that had been involved in disarmaments talks with N. Korea. One ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=44 A big issue where I live is the rise in housing costs. For some years now, the price of housing in Southern California has been skyrocketing. What is required to buy even a modest home here would buy practical palaces in other parts of the country. Renting isn’t easy either. ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=43 “The Primary Freedom of the Press lies in not being a Trade” (Karl Marx, Rheinische Zeitung, May 1842.) “Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one” (Anon) For the last twenty years there has been increasing public awareness that journalistic integrity and the capitalist press are uneasy bedfellows. Various writers, particularly ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=42 Socialists are revolutionaries: we believe that the establishment of a Socialist society will involve a fundamental change in the way people live, and will necessitate the capture of political power by the Socialist working class. As revolutionaries, we do not advocate reforms, that is, changes in the way capitalism runs, ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=41 The rise of the Green Party and other “green’ reformist environmental groups in the United States and around the world brings attention to the fact there there is an environmental crisis continuing to escalate. From ever-depleting natural resources to pollution of all kinds to the continuing ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=39 That is the slogan of my favorite energy drink, Rockstar. I drink one on irregular occasions, usually at work when I am tired and its busy. A lot of people drink energy drinks to stay alert at work. Other people will drink a variety of coffee drinks from some place like ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=38 Since the end of the Second World War, when the US forced the Italian government to discharge its Communist Party cabinet members as a prerequisite for aid, to its support for the coup attempt in Venezuela in 2003, the US has been regularly subverting elections around the globe for the ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=37 The end of February will mark the one year anniversary Southern California grocery strike. I thought this might be a good time to look back and evaluate on where we stand after the longest labor strike in US history. While the strike, on the surface, was about health care and a ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=36 What appears to be a voice for working class soldiers against the Iraq War is on line at: Traveling-Soldier.org From their mission statement: Telling the truth - about the occupation, the cuts to veterans benefits, or the dangers of depleted uranium - is the first reason Traveling Soldier is necessary. But we want ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=35 http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=34 Since the end of the Second World War, when the US forced the Italian government to discharge its Communist Party cabinet members as a prerequisite for aid, to its support for the coup attempt in Venezuela in 2003, the US has been regularly subverting elections around the globe for the ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=33 We would like to alert our readers to the Harrass The Brass website. While not socialist, HtB is a usefull website showing the depth of resistence to the Iraq war on the part of “Coalition” worker-soldiers. http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=32 Here’s some interesting figures regarding Tsunami releaf funds: Bush has promised $15,000,000. Which is 79 minutes worth of Iraq War funding. News is in that in an emergency ministerial meeting, India’s Prime Minister has just promised $22,896,393 for Sri Lanka alone. With $1,144,819 more for the Maldives. Oh wait! That’s right we need ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=31 More workers were killed in Iraq today, with dozens more reported killed and injured earlier in the week. The dead Iraqi workers were evidently attempting to get along with their lives. Unwanted in the global market, they mistakenly came into conflict with profits, which are always most important. American workers ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=30 Isn’t it nice to have a few days off from work, warming the cockles of our overgenerous souls after spending the past year producing large sums of wealth for the parasite class, singing Santa songs by the hearth, drinking mulled wine and pretty much anything else that will get us ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=29 The AFL-CIO’s Jobs With Justice organization has announced its annual Grinch of the Year contest. We can admit that these corporations are pretty bad as employers go. However, we feel that it does no service to fail to point out that the problems of bad employers will not go away ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=28 The following is a posting from the Anarchist Infoshop website. It deals with the financial set-up of the Trotskyist International Socialist Organization (ISO). We feel it is important that radicals understand why the backroom financial dealings within pseudo-socialist organizations such as the International Socialist Organization (ISO) as anti-working class. Real working ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=26 VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul on Saturday condemned same sex marriage as an attack on the fabric of society and called on Catholics to combat what he said was aggressive attempt to legally undermine the family. “Attacks on marriage and the family, from an ideological and legal aspect, are ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=24 http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=23 Guardianistas and the Daily hate-Mail readers have been treated to a form of united front against the Blair government. Not over the continuation of homelessness, poverty, unemployment or the instability of the world; but over the Earth-shattering plans of the British government to permit larger casinos to be built as ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=22 http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=21 Interesting tidbit from Empire Notes The New York Times reports that, according to Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero, before leaving office in April the Aznar administration erased all records related to the Madrid bombings: “There was not a single paper, not a single piece of data in computer ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=20 While it’s not being commonly discussed, the decline of the US dollar compared to other currencies is starting to alarm journalists and other pundits. For example What’s the problem? Simply, if the US dollar declines against other currencies, it will become harder for Americans to buy foreign products- such as all ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=17 The Corporation, a recently released film directed by Mark Achban, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan, begins with a little US political history, observing how, in the 19th century, a “corporation” was a “benevolent” association of people with a government charter to serve “the public good”. When, in the late 1860s, ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=19 US Air Force planes bombed the newly freed city of Fullujah today. The bombings were launched after 8 Marines died in a Iraqi insurgency attack. The Fallujah insurgency, if you remember correctly, was destroyed last month. US Military spokespeople gave no estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths or causualties caused by US ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=16 Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, has been indicted today on human rights “abuses", including kidnapping of 9 leftists and the murder of one. According to the Guardian newspaper this is the second attempt to put Pinochet in prison: The first attempt to put Pinochet on trial in Chile ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=14 So Scott Peterson will be executed for the murder of his wife and unborn child. Another family (Scott’s) will be victims of an another untimely death- this time done in your and my name. Just because he is a murderer doesn’t mean he is not a son, brother, friend and ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=15 A series of photos from Iraq of dead working people, most shot dead in their beds by US forces. One exception is of a young boy clutching a white flag. As always, wars for “freedom” are not about liberating working people like these victims, it is for the freedom to ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=11 President Thabo Mbeki says war remains one of the central causes of disabilities on the African continent. He was speaking at the end of the World Blind Union’s conference in Cape Town today. Delegates from 60 countries attended the event. Mbeki says government will continue to fight for peace and stability ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=10 http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=12 Daimler Chrysler announced on Friday that it was recalling 600,000 trucks because a problem with the suspension could cause the wheels to fall off, but, said a company spokesman, “We do not think it rises to the level of a safety defect.” Seems to me that what is important isn’t the ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=13 Published by The Socialist Party of Great Britain to mark the centenary of its formation, ‘Socialism or Your Money Back’ presents a ” . . .running commentary from a socialist perspective of the key events of the last hundred years as they happened. Two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=5 One would have to be remarkably unaware of what is happening in the world today not to know that society was facing a drug problem. A drug problem on a scale which is costing thousands of lives and untold millions of pounds to control. This is not a question of ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=6 Michael Moore’s latest documentary film-Fahrenheit 911-grossed $80 million in its first week. Despite initial attempts to stop the film’s distribution and screening and right-wing claims that the film is inaccurate, it has been seen by sell-out cinema audiences and won all manner of applause from US ‘liberals’ and the Left ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=3 Socialists appreciate that the war over Iraq has drawn many workers into a political arena hitherto seen as boring and as impossible to influence from the outside. Workers once apolitical have been stirred into action by the lies, the tricks to curtail the democratic process, and the acts of violence, ... http://www.worldsocialism.org/usa/blog/index.php?p=2