Archive for 'United States'
In Solidarity with People Affected by the ‘Muslim Ban’: Boycott International Conferences in the US
Posted by John, January 31st, 2017 - under Muslim Ban, United States.
Tags: Boycott, Donald Trump
Comments: none
Academics are starting a US conference boycott.
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Baltimore rises up against deadly racism
Posted by John, April 29th, 2015 - under Racism, Resistance, United States.
Tags: Baltimore, Fighting back
Comments: 1
The anger provoked by Freddie Gray’s death has been building for years – the result of entrenched racism and economic inequality, not to mention the long history of police brutality and killings, mainly of African American men.
The rivalries that are tearing the Middle East apart
Posted by John, April 3rd, 2015 - under Iraq, Islamic State, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United States, US imperialism, Yemen.
Comments: 4
Eric Ruder in Socialist Worker US untangles the crisscrossing web of antagonisms in the Middle East and argues that ‘the latest military escalations by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia threaten to further destabilize a Middle East in which open hostilities and humanitarian disasters have multiplied, from Libya to Yemen, and Syria to Iraq .’
The cops murdered Eric Garner
Posted by John, December 4th, 2014 - under Police, Racism, United States.
Tags: Cops
Comments: 5
Danny Katch in Socialist Worker US reports on the Staten Island grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case – and the bitter anger of opponents of police violence as they mobilize yet again. Here is a snippet.
But the video wasn’t the key. As in Ferguson, the real key was the unspoken rule of the criminal injustice system: Killer cops are above the law – and they can get away with murder.
Ferguson: justice denied yet again in America
Posted by John, November 26th, 2014 - under Racism, United States.
Tags: Black America, Ferguson
Comments: 7
DARREN WILSON has gotten away with murder – and the American injustice system sent the message once again that Black lives don’t matter, write Nicole Colson and Alan Maass in Socialist Worker US.
The US mid-term elections: from hope to nope
Posted by John, November 12th, 2014 - under Politics, United States.
Tags: Elections
Comments: none
This is from the editorial in Socialist Worker US on the mid-term elections and the large number of those who are dismayed with establishment politics and who didn’t vote.
Ferguson fights back
Posted by John, August 18th, 2014 - under Police, Racism, United States.
Tags: Ferguson
Comments: 3
SocialistWorker.org writers Eric Ruder, Elizabeth Schulte, Trish Kahle and Donny Schraffenberger traveled to Ferguson to provide this account in Socialist Worker US of a community rising up against police violence, despite a crackdown that turns their city into a war zone each night.
Why is Iraq being torn apart?
Posted by John, June 17th, 2014 - under Imperialism, Iraq, United States, US imperialism.
Comments: 23
Ashley Smith in Socialist Worker US provides the essential background for understanding Iraq’s crisis. As Iraq’s descent into chaos and conflict proves once again, the U.S. and its imperial rivals are part of the problem, not the solution.
Keeping us in the dark on free trade
Posted by John, November 7th, 2013 - under Neoliberalism, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, United States, US imperialism.
Tags: China
Comments: 2
So you haven’t heard about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement? This is not surprising since it is being negotiated in secret. So afraid is the Australian government of its citizens knowing details about what is being negotiated that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade banned journalists from a public briefing on the TPP.
Put Barack Obama on trial for his terrorism
Posted by John, April 17th, 2013 - under Terrorism, United States, US imperialism.
Tags: Afghanistan
Comments: 17
The biggest terrorist sits in Washington and kills women and kids every day. Why isn’t Barack Obama on trial for his terrorism?