Sam Marcy, one of the leading Marxist thinkers of the post-World War II era, was a founder of Workers World Party. Here are Marcy’s articles from 1989 through 1995, which appeared in Workers World newspaper as well as the books and pamphlets he wrote from 1972 on....
The news that while the economy grew at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the
last quarter, there was simultaneously a net loss of 208,000 jobs, indicates
that U.S. capitalism has entered a new phase — the phase of the
“jobless recovery” with increasingly intractable and growing
long-term mass unemployment....
The Democratic Party suffered a severe political setback in Massachusetts with
the loss of the U.S. Senate seat, held by Ted Kennedy for almost 50 years, to
Scott Brown. A stealth right-wing politician, Brown rode around the state in a
pickup truck claiming to be an independent and “man of the
people.”...
More than 10,000 people gathered under a sea of red flags to open the First
Convention of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, and then held a militant mass
march through Dhaka’s crowded streets. Hundreds of nationally elected
delegates and many thousands of participants attended the Dec. 30-31 Convention
of the SPB, which was formed in 1980. They presented a powerful challenge to
the Western corporate media’s view of Bangladesh....
Local labor union members and officers, along with members of the San
Francisco Labor Council, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and
community supporters, picketed and spoke outside the Mexican Consulate at
noontime Jan. 29 in downtown San Francisco....
The 20 U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships, 63 helicopters, 204 joint operations
vehicles and approximately 13,000 military personnel — 10,000 afloat and
3,000 ashore — occupying Haiti, were sanctioned by the U.N. as of Jan.
22. No request from Haiti was needed — the U.S. wanted to send troops and
it did. The occupation and the U.N. approval have no legal basis....
Some 2,752 people were killed on Sept. 11, 2001, in the airplane attacks in the
U.S. Their deaths have been marked and mourned. Today just the words
“World Trade Center,” “9/11” and “al-Qaida”
bring to mind attacks on civilians and fear of other such attacks....
Around 11 p.m. on Jan. 12, another tragic incident demonstrated the racist
establishment’s brutal punshment of
the crime of “walking while Black” in Pittsburgh.
Jordan Miles, an 18-year-old viola player and honors student at the prestigious
Creative and Performing Arts High School (CAPA), was walking from his
mother’s home to his grandmother’s home where he frequently stayed,
when he was inexplicably and brutally attacked by three white Pittsburgh police
officers....
Obama one year later Larry Holmes Larry Holmes speaking at the Workers World Forum Feb. 6 in NYC. Download MP3
On the March 4 Defend Education National Mobilization LeiLani Dowell LeiLani Dowell speaking at the Workers World Forum Feb. 6 in NYC. Download MP3
On the Feb. 13 International Teach-In on Mumia Abu-Jamal Dolores Cox Dolores Cox speaking at the Workers World Forum Feb. 6 in NYC. Download MP3
The case of Melissa Roxas and the human rights crisis in the Philippines Melissa Roxas Melissa Roxas, a Filipana-American human rights advocate, health worker, writer, and poet, speaking at the Workers World Forum Jan. 29 in NYC. Download MP3
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