Editorials

First came the wars

Two items appeared in the news on the same day this month, March 22. One was that, finally, months after…

March 24, 2016

Why People’s Korea needs a strong defense

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has a right to respond to U.S. imperialism’s attempts to encircle it militarily and…

March 8, 2016

Women, struggle and socialism

Struggle. Solidarity. That’s the essence of International Women’s Day, as intended by its founders at the 1910 International Socialist Women’s…

March 1, 2016

Tear down the walls!

At last. After 43 years and 10 months banished to a 6-by-9-foot cell by Louisiana prison authorities, Albert Woodfox was…

February 24, 2016

Scalia, SCOTUS and democracy

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his reactionary, racist, anti-woman, anti-gay and anti-working class decisions, which he disguised as…

February 16, 2016

In defense of north Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea achieved another scientific-technological breakthrough on Feb. 7, lofting a space satellite into orbit. It…

February 9, 2016

Free Julian Assange

The United Nations panel that heard the case that Julian Assange’s attorneys brought before it hardly ever decides against the…

February 8, 2016

What Iowa shows

It would be rash to read too much into the caucuses held Feb. 1 in Iowa, so far as predicting…

February 2, 2016

Extreme wealth, extreme poverty

To greet the super-rich, now meeting in Davos, Switzerland, anti-poverty analysts from Oxfam — who challenge capitalism’s symptoms without challenging…

January 25, 2016

Dr. King’s legacy still relevant

“I have worked too long now and too hard to get rid of segregation in public accommodations to turn back…

January 15, 2016