Editorials

Racism and Black tennis players

The Public Broadcasting Service recently aired an “American Masters” documentary on Althea Gibson, the first African-American tennis star to break the…

September 15, 2015

Behind the govt’s ‘rosy’ jobs report

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,” wrote Mark Twain. The U.S. government issued its monthly…

September 7, 2015

Why Emmett Till’s life still matters

During the height of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the South,  activists like Jimmy Lee Jackson, Medgar Evers, Viola…

September 1, 2015

Migrant crisis in Europe: Who caused it?

Behind the horror stories about the treatment of migrants trying to reach Europe is the imperialist system of exploitation of…

August 27, 2015

Defend Planned Parenthood!

Amidst the ratcheted-up misogyny on display by the ranks of the Republican Party, the right wing has unleashed a full-out…

August 11, 2015

Zimbabwe and the killing of Cecil

It has taken the illegal and cruel killing on July 1 of a beloved lion named Cecil by a stereotypically…

August 4, 2015

Capitalism’s war on children

The Black Lives Matter upsurge gained national and international prominence almost a year ago in the aftermath of the police…

July 30, 2015

Is prison clemency the answer?

On July 16, President Barack Obama made a visit to a federal prison in Reno, Okla., to bring attention in…

July 21, 2015

Debt means having the same enemy

What do working people in Greece, Ghana, Detroit and Puerto Rico have in common? They are all exploited by imperialist…

July 14, 2015

Solidarity with workers in Greece

Which side are you on? In the struggle between European and U.S. finance capital, on one side, and the work…

July 13, 2015