The War's Unlikely General. By the time Johnson--who became president after Kennedy's assassination in November 1963--made his declaration of war against poverty in 1964, African American protests ...

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THIS BRINGS us to the question of America's two mainstream political parties--because candidates, despite the cult of individual politicians in the U.S., operate through and as members of one ...

AS I stood among the 5,000 people in Burlington, Vermont's waterfront park while Bernie Sanders launched his Democratic presidential primary bid late last month, it was odd to hear the repeated ...

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Socialist Worker looks at the results of the midterms — and what they tell us about reaction and resistance in a polarized country.

Supporting the Sanders campaign will be ineffective at best for the left--and disorienting and incapacitating at worst.

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From corporate crimes to murder in Iraq Crimes of the Bush dynasty. February 6, 2004 | Pages 6 and 7. THE GREAT myth about the United States is that we live in a "meritocracy," where the "best and ...

THE TET Offensive first came to the attention of the U.S. military in spectacular fashion hours after it began on the night of January 30, 1968, when 19 Vietnamese resistance fighters blew a hole ...

IN FACT, the April 13 rally showed that teachers and many others recognize the deep social crisis impacting everyone--and they want to widen and deepen the struggle.

Washington stood by while a genocide took place What's behind the horror in Sudan? September 17, 2004 | Page 5. LAST WEEK, the Bush administration was forced to admit that a genocide is taking ...