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Is the Tea Party a fascist movement?

It is easy to call someone who disagrees with you a fascist. It is also in most cases completely wrong.  Conservatives are not fascists. Reactionaries are not fascists. An incorrect understanding of...

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How Obama got from hope to hopeless

The Democrats were handed a golden opportunity to transform U.S. politics for years to come–and they blew it. Alan Maass in the US paper Socialist Worker looks at how it happened–and why. BARACK OBAMA...

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Ron Paul: a bigot through and through

There isn’t any reason good enough to support Ron Paul, Elizabeth Schulte explains in the US Socialist Worker. IT’S HARDLY a revelation, but here’s the plain truth: Take a good look at Ron Paul, and...

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The rotten theory that drives Ron Paul

THEORY MATTERS. Such is the mantra of so many socialists–and it is when cults of personality build up around individuals, such as the racist, sexist, classist Ron Paul, that we see why, argues Paul...

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Martin Luther King on the other America

Forty-four years ago on March 14, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Grosse Pointe High School outside Detroit. It was one of King’s last public speeches before his assassination three weeks...

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Why is the US Presidential election so close?

Lance Selfa, author of The Democrats: A Critical History, explains in Socialist Worker US what the shifts in the polls tell us about Election 2012 and the two presidential candidates. GOING INTO the...

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What’s the alternative to the two parties?

There isn’t a significant left-wing alternative on Election Day this year. Lance Selfa, author of The Democrats: A Critical History, explains in Socialist Worker US what it will take to get there....

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We don’t want “four more-of-the-same years”

Our side needs to build the resistance to austerity, no matter who’s in power writes Socialist Worker US. BARACK OBAMA has won re-election, thanks to a strong turnout by the Democratic Party’s core...

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A racist killer is acquitted in the US

Everyone who was horrified by Trayvon Martin’s murder a year ago and by the acquittal of his killer on Saturday night needs to raise their voice against this cruel injustice writes Socialist Worker...

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US shutdown: Washington’s warring brothers

This month’s battles over the budget and the Tea Party Republicans’ fanaticism about the health care law obscure the two parties’ common commitment to austerity write the editors of Socialist Worker...

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Hillary Clinton is the candidate of Corporate America and business as usual...

Hillary Clinton is mouthing populist rhetoric, but why should anyone believe her? asks Socialist Worker US. Hillary Clinton BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton Spotted in Iowa. It was hard to imagine a...

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