Editorials

Smoke, mirrors and the old shell game

Capitalist politics have long been a shell game. While the masses of people are told to look to elections to…

April 25, 2019

Stop U.S. sanctions!

The gang that announces Washington’s policies has laid out a program of punishment, aimed at populations of countries on three…

April 25, 2019

Una palabra muy maltratada

La palabra "democracia" se usa mucho en EUA. La mayoría de las veces se usa para engalanar un sistema político…

April 23, 2019

A much abused word

The word “democracy” gets thrown around a lot in this country. Most of the time it is used to prettify…

April 18, 2019

Highlander arson: ‘Steadfast in our solidarity’

An arsonist set a fire on the night of March 29 that destroyed the main office building and decades of…

April 11, 2019

Climate change is driving social change

The terrible news on unfolding climate change can have opposite effects on people: despair, lassitude and denial -- or angry…

March 29, 2019

In Brexit, workers’ struggles have no borders

The process of Britain leaving the European Union -- called Brexit -- has turned the politics of that country into…

March 20, 2019

Fighting Islamophobia worldwide is how to respond to the massacre in New Zealand

The world reverberated on March 15 to the horrifying news that 50 people had been murdered and scores wounded, some…

March 19, 2019

Int’l Working Women’s Day shows nothing stays the same

International Working Women’s Day, March 8, is celebrated in many countries to acknowledge past and present struggles for women’s equality…

March 12, 2019

The key to climate change

Almost a century and a half ago, Karl Marx’s closest collaborator, Frederick Engels, wrote about the degradation of the environment…

March 5, 2019