Editorials

What women are fighting for

International Women’s Day is a good time to examine some crucial struggles for women, including pay equity and livable wages.…

March 7, 2015

Protest war criminal Netanyahu

He won’t be the first war criminal to speak before the U.S. Congress. Remember that George W. Bush delivered eight…

February 28, 2015

Hatching new wars

Capitalist crises engender war. To the profiteers, war spoils and the selling of war materiel are the answer to sagging…

February 19, 2015

Confront ‘American Sniper’

Try to imagine this movie: Iraq’s urban population, angered by a foreign invasion, mobilizes to resist an army of occupation.…

February 10, 2015

No U.S. arms for Kiev regime!

The U.S. government says it is discussing — if it is not already a done deal  — sending $3 billion…

February 3, 2015

Bratton and protests

New York Police Commissioner William Bratton, in a speech to the Police Foundation on Jan. 29, announced the formation of…

February 3, 2015

What Obama left out

The “State of the Union” is the annual presidential speech that is supposed to report on how things are going…

January 26, 2015

Racism in the Academy behind snubbing of ‘Selma’

Institutionalized racism in the U.S. comes in many forms — some of it subtle, some not so subtle. The not…

January 20, 2015

Dr. King and Black lives today

If the great Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would unequivocally lend his name…

January 16, 2015

Ebola, socialism & imperialism

Now that the threat of the spread of Ebola within the United States has diminished — for the present —…

January 7, 2015