By Editor Socialist Party USA April Membership Meeting When: Saturday, April 5th, 2pm Where: 2617 Hauser Blvd., Los Angeles, CA What’s happening: We’ll cover the state assembly campaign, state convention, nominating and electing local members to the Labor, Anti-War, and…
By Gilbert Achcar interviewed by Rana Nessim and Rosemary Bechler Rana Nessim: In your book The People Want, you said this is going to be a very long revolutionary process. Did you expect it to turn into a military dictatorship…
By Sarita Gupta Anyone who knows the frenzy of March Madness should understand that college sports are big business. Between ticket sales and lucrative licensing deals that allow for televised game coverage and profitable merchandise revenue streams, college sports is…
By by Egypt Solidarity Initiative The military regime in Egypt is carrying out a reign of terror to consolidate its power. Responding to the emergency, the workers’ solidarity network MENA has launched an online petition to protest the atrocity of…
By Jobs With Justice In an exclusive interview with Salon‘s Josh Eidelson, an assistant store manager at Walmart has come forward to expose a litany of abuses facing employees at the world’s largest retailer. The manager detailed problems ranging from…
By Sarita Gupta Yesterday, the White House released a report highlighting how updating the federal minimum wage to $10.10 and indexing it to inflation is critical in closing the gender wage gap. Women make up 55 percent of all workers…
By by the Fourth International This resolution on support for and solidarity with the Syrian people’s uprising was adopted by an overwhelming majority at the International Committee meeting of the Fourth International on 25 February 2014.The ongoing uprising against the…
By Editor When: Saturday, April 5th, 2pm Where: 2617 Hauser Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA What’s happening: We’ll cover the state assembly campaign, state convention, nominating and electing local members to the Labor, Anti-War, and Prison-Industrial-Complex Commission, discuss our neighborhood and…
By by Eric Toussaint We all know the saying, “too big to fail.” The way governments have managed the crisis caused by the banks has given rise to, “too big to jail,”1 which is equally poetic!2 Although the US government…
By Chris Hicks One in five American households holds education debt,i posing an increasingly large threat to our economic recovery. As politicians at the federal, state and local levels consider possible solutions to this growing crisis, one government agency finds…
By by Olivier Besancenot Why does Bosnia-Herzegovina inspire so little interest and curiosity in the media and the political class when, on the contrary, Ukraine is front-page news? Is it because of its non-membership in the European Union? Is it…
By Tommy This article was originally published for Foreign Policy in Focus and at tommyraskin.org. The neoconservative camp, always eager to wrestle with imaginary positions of their opponents, is now bravely challenging another belief that no one holds, which is…
By Umass Boston Socialists Tuesday, April 1 at 5pm ROOM 444, Curry Student Center Northeastern University Join the Progressive Student Alliance, the Northeastern Palestine Underground, and the International Socialist Organization – Boston on Tuesday, April 1st at 5:00pm as we…
By Umass Boston Socialists April 1, 2014 at 12:30pm Campus Center Ballroom – Section A University of Massachusetts Boston Efforts to achieve a “two-state solution” have finally collapsed; the struggle for justice in Palestine is at a crossroads. As Israel…
By Jonathan Williams Working for an ass hole isn’t always a choice, but being one is. Chet Cadieux, CEO of QuikTrip, thinks his employees don’t deserve to work for an ass hole. “QuikTrip is an especially inspiring example of the…