Political Issues

Elections

U.S. Elections 2010: Both Parties Swindle Us — Build Our Own Party! (Nov 10, 2010)

Elections: Behind the Shiny New Politics Lies the Same Old Political Sludge (Aug 1, 2008)

U.S. Elections: Three Candidates, but Not One Speaks for Working People (Apr 13, 2008)

U.S.A.: Elections Reject Republican Policies, but the Democrats Don’t (Jan 20, 2007)

United States: The 2004 Election Gave No Mandate to Continue the War and Attack Social Security! (Jan 27, 2005)

Unions and the Elections: Supporting the “Lesser Evil” Leaves the Working Class with No Party of Its Own (Oct 15, 2004)

U.S. Elections: A Referendum on the Bush Agenda — and What the Democrats Did to Implement It (Oct 14, 2004)

United States: “ABB”: Demonizing Bush to Justify Supporting the Democrats (Apr 18, 2004)

Bush and the Christian Right: Going Backward to a Future Right out of the Middle Ages (Jan 25, 2004)

United States: Election Time and the Democrats Unpack their Antiwar Stance from Mothballs (Oct 27, 2000)

United States: Elections: Two Evils, Asking for the Workers’ Approval (Oct 27, 2000)

Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Iraq: The Making of a Dysfunctional Pawn in the Imperialist Regional Game (Oct 2, 2010)

The U.S. Military Surge in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Jan 29, 2010)

Iraq: The “Forgotten” War (Jan 12, 2010)

The U.S. “Surge” in Afghanistan: A Deadly Poker Game (Nov 8, 2009)

Afghanistan: A Bloody War in Defense of a Failed Regime (Sep 29, 2009)

Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan: From One Quagmire to Another (Jul 31, 2009)

Afghanistan: Seven Years into a Worsening Quagmire (Jan 30, 2009)

U.S. War: Surging from Iraq into Afghanistan and Pakistan (Oct 15, 2008)

The U.S. “Surge”: Dividing Iraq in Order to Rule (Nov 1, 2007)

Viet Nam or Iraq: It’s Still a Rich Man’s War, but a Poor Man or Woman’s Army (Apr 23, 2007)

Iraq: The U.S. Changes Course to a Bloodier War (Jan 21, 2007)

Afghanistan: A Hidden War That Is Turning into Another Quagmire (Jul 6, 2006)

Afghanistan: The Hidden U.S. War Reasserts Itself (Jul 25, 2005)

Iraq: A Sham Election Stained With the Blood of Falluja (Jan 20, 2005)

Iraq War Debate: Generals & Spies vs. the “Neo-Cons” (Nov 19, 2003)

Iraq: From an Imperialist Occupation to a Bloody Quagmire (Sep 13, 2003)

Iraq War: Into the Quicksand (Jul 25, 2003)

United States: AFL-CIO Supports the Bosses’ Wars — against Iraq and at Home (Apr 20, 2003)

United States: The War Against Iraq Is a War of Thieves (Apr 20, 2003)

Iraq: Behind the Dictatorship of Saddam Hussein Stood the Dictatorship of Imperialism (Apr 19, 2003)

Iraq: Bush’s Warmongering Now Leads to War (Jan 27, 2003)

United States: Stop the U.S. War on Iraq (Oct 11, 2002)

Auto

UAW: From the 2009 NO-Vote by Ford Workers, to the 2010 Convention, to the 2011 Contracts (Jul 31, 2010)

Ford Workers Had the Best Idea: Refuse Concessions! (Jan 24, 2010)

Auto Concessions: A Battering Ram Aimed at the Whole Working Class (Jan 22, 2009)

Auto: A Bitter Example of the Bosses’ War on the Working Class (Oct 20, 2008)

Auto Negotiations 2007: Lies, Scare Tactics & Extortion (Jul 31, 2007)

Chrysler for Sale?: The Latest “Restructuring” Attack on the Whole Working Class (Apr 16, 2007)

France: Auto Workers Strike at Peugeot-Citroën (Apr 15, 2007)

Auto: Demanding that the Workers Sell Out Their Parents and Their Children (Oct 21, 2006)

Auto Contracts: Result of a Company-Union Partnership against the Workers (Oct 15, 2003)

Economy & Oil

World Economy: Capitalism Adrift (Jun 24, 2010)

Global Crisis: Renewed Speculation Targets Currencies and Public Debt (Feb 25, 2010)

The Global Crisis of the Capitalist Economy (Feb 2, 2010)

Eastern European States: Sliding Deeper into Crisis (Apr 29, 2009)

World Economy: Confronting the Crisis of the Capitalist Economy (Nov 13, 2008)

Capitalist Economy: Heading Toward a Generalized Crisis (Oct 9, 2008)

Financial Crisis: The Credit Crisis Hits Home (Apr 11, 2008)

Financial Crisis: The Stock Market Rout: The Latest Development of the Financial Crisis (Feb 19, 2008)

United States: The Subprime Economy (Oct 31, 2007)

World Economy: From the Housing Crisis to the Financial Crisis (Oct 1, 2007)

Skyrocketing Oil Prices: The Planet Held Hostage by the “Majors” and the Speculators (Oct 14, 2005)

Oil: The Big Companies Plunder the World (Jul 23, 2004)

The Economic Meltdown: “Corporate Crime” and Speculation — Built-in Components of Capitalism (Sep 8, 2002)

Oil: The Jump in World Prices and the “Majors” (Nov 4, 2000)

Global Warming

Global Warming: Politics and Profit (Jul 25, 2007)

Immigration

United States: Immigration and the Forging of the American Working Class (Oct 20, 2006)

“Comprehensive Immigration Reform”: An Attack on the Immigrants and the Rest of the Working Class (Jul 26, 2006)

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina: A Natural Force Turned into a Human Catastrophe by a System Based on Profit (Sep 19, 2005)

Revolutionaries and Trade Union Activity

United States (Historical): The Double Role of the CP in Building the CIO (Apr 30, 2000)

United States: The Labor Party is Founded — But for What Purpose? (Sep 30, 1996)

The Drive for the Labor Party: The Power Was There, The Perspective Was Not (Mar 31, 1985)

Revolutionaries and Trade Union Activity (Nov 30, 1973)

The Socialist Workers’ Party, the Union Bureaucracy, and the Working Class (Nov 30, 1972)

The Labor Party Issue in the United States (Jul 30, 1972)

Class Struggle: America’s Union Heritage

United States: The Capitalists Try to Create Divisions; the Workers’ Strength Is in their Unity (Jan 31, 1999)

1941: Victory at Ford’s (Jun 11, 1990)

The Flint Sit Down: The Strike Which Broke the Bosses’ Intransigence (May 31, 1986)

The 1934 Minneapolis Strike (May 31, 1984)

The Unions: Creations of the Workers, Tools of the Bourgeoisie (Jan 31, 1982)

The CIO: From Militant Struggles to Class Collaboration (Mar 31, 1981)

Past Fights Against Concessions

United States: The Attack on Carey: A “Wake-Up Call” for Labor (Nov 1, 1997)

United States: UPS Strike: A Fight for “Good Jobs” (Aug 17, 1997)

A Working-Class Electoral Campaign in Michigan (Apr 15, 1989)

Blue Cross (Detroit): A Somewhat Unusual Strike (Feb 1, 1988)

The American Mineworker's Strike (Jun 1, 1978)

Revolutionaries and the Fight for Legal Abortion

Abortion and Women’s Rights Under Attack (Aug 31, 1992)

Revolutionaries and the Fight for Legal Abortion (Mar 31, 1974)

The Black Revolt in the United States

The Black Revolt and the End of the War Against Viet Nam (Dec 31, 1990)

The Black Movement in the Sixties: Victories and Lost Opportunities (Apr 30, 1987)

A Revival of the Civil Rights Movement? (Apr 30, 1987)

The Black Revolt in the United States: A Hope for All Humanity (Dec 31, 1969)

Viet Nam War

The Anti-War Movement of the 60’s (Oct 1, 1982)

Two Workers’ Revolutions

The Russian Revolution (Dec 31, 1977)

The Paris Commune, 1871 (Dec 31, 1977)

Founding Statement

For a Trotskyist Organization in the Working Class (Dec 31, 1971)