The latest scandal that surrounds Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama’s previous involvement with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and that highlights his difficulty fully disowning this association with the politically radical pastor until a statement unequivocally doing so publicly on April 29th is angrily upsetting his fans and supporters who fear that the time it has taken him to do this may seriously undermine his popularity among Democrats, and...
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Obama, the Rev. Wright and hesitation
Invasion of Dominica (1965)
On this day in 1965 the United States sent more than 22,000 troops to the Dominican Republic in order to prevent the establishment of what President Lyndon Johnson described as a ‘communist dictatorship’. Utter nonsense of course. The Socialist Standard of June that year explains why: •••••• “In yet another flare-up in the endless round of minor conflicts, the focus of attention swung last month to the Western Hemisphere....
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America’s Role in Haiti’s Hunger Riots
This article was recommended to us by a Haitian friend of the WSP. We reprint it for the information contained – the on the ground conditions as our contact in haiti confirms them. It doesn’t reflect the WSP policies. •••••• America’s Role in Haiti’s Hunger Riots By Bill Quigley Monday 21 April 2008 Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people....
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Nonprofit Production: Wave of the Future?
Each year half a million people in India and other tropical countries catch visceral leishmaniasis, also known as black fever (kala-azar). Infected by the bite of a sand fly, they rapidly weaken and lose weight before dying with painfully swollen livers and spleens. A safe and effective treatment for black fever was found long ago: the antibiotic paromomycin (cure rate 95 percent). But the firm that developed it —...
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Miners’ Wildcat in Mexico
(Labor Notes) More than 250,000 miners and steelworkers from central to northern Mexico walked off the job March 1-3 in wildcat strikes at 70 companies that virtually paralyzed the mining industry. While the strike has ended, this may be the only first act in an unfolding drama that could challenge Mexican employers, the corrupt “official” unions, and the conservative Mexican government. The strike was a response to a government...
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Nepal Elections: Waskowy Maowists Win! – UPDATED!
Ah, Maoists.. They always claim they are more clever than us “arm-chair” types (their term). They are always swimming with the people, or against the current, but never pissing in the pool or skipping down the capitalist road. And after years of political defeats and military victories, Maoists have taken control of Nepal. Glorious Nepal, the workers’ homeland. After 10 years of “people’s war” the Nepali Communist Party (Maoist)...
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Socialism And The Environment – Part One
Introduction In recent years the environment has become a major political issue. And rightly so, because a serious environmental crisis really does exist. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat have all become contaminated to a greater or lesser extent. Ecology – the branch of biology that studies the...
What is Common Ownership?
Quite simply, the common ownership of the world’s resources and productive capacity is the basis for a reorganisation of society that would ensure plenty of the necessities of life for everyone on the planet – no more starving, malnourished people, no wandering homeless, no senseless deaths for the want of easily affordable medical care...
Marx’s Conception of Socialism
Marx’s Conception of Socialism Marx usually referred to the society he aimed to see established by the working class as “communist society”. Precisely because he believed that “communist society” would be the outcome of the struggle and movement of the working class against its capitalist conditions of existence, Marx always refused to give any...
