Most Americans today are aware of the 47 million uninsured US citizens and many have heard about the estimated 50 million Americans who are under-insured, lacking comprehensive coverage and paying far too much in out-of-pocket expenses. While many honestly do feel that their insurance coverage is sufficient and will protect them or their family members in case of illness, our present economic crisis has been teaching more and more people a hard lesson about the inefficiencies, injustices and waste of our present, multi-payer, for profit system.
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“Street Sweeper Social Club” Album Review
With the economy growing worse by the day, Street Sweeper Social Club (SSSC) has released their self-titled debut album in an effort to capture the discontent and anger felt by the working class through music.
The Obama Administration: Transparent as a Brick
When Barack Obama was still a candidate in the Democratic primaries, he promised a new era if he were elected. Among his promises for “change,” he said his future administration would be one of the most transparent in history: “an unprecedented level of openness in government.” Well, we’re still waiting, and will most likely be left waiting for a very, very long time.
Obama’s Middle East Policy: Still Imperialist
US foreign policy is dictated by its role as an imperialist power. By imperialism, we mean the monopolistic rule of the big banks, which have control over all the other economic sectors of society, and the carving up of the world into spheres of influence by the powerful capitalist nations.
Thousands in Seattle Protest for Single Payer
On Saturday, June 2nd 2009, several thousand Seattle residents took to the streets to call for a national single payer health plan. Though numbers were not as large as key organizers from Healthcare Union SEIU 1199 had hoped they would be, the tone of the action was an interesting mix of militant attitude and carnival of the oppressed. Given the increasingly obvious attitude of the ruling gentry in the northwest and elsewhere that public and personal health should remain a privilege, the no-nonsense tone of the crowd was most welcome indeed.
The 75th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike
The 1934 Teamsters strike in Minneapolis was a decisive moment in the US labor and socialist movements.
CA Public Workers Under Attack: Make the Rich Pay for their Crisis!
Across the US, the economic crisis caused by the wealthy elite is leading to deep cuts in the standard of living for many workers. This includes workers in the public sector. California, the most populous of the 50 states, is at the center of the state and local fiscal calamity. If California was a separate country, it would be the 35th most populous country and have the 10th largest economy in the world. California alone has more people than all of Canada!
Lack of “Change” Leads to Discontent
With the much ballyhooed “first 100” days of Barack Obama’s Presidency long past, we are starting to see signs of disillusionment from many of his more vocal supporters. Obama, the man who was supposed to usher in a new era of “change,” is now increasingly being seen as “more of the same.”
Crisis and Class Struggle in the 1930s and Today
For decades, the mantra “Capitalism = good” and “Socialism = bad” was driven into our heads. But even the most sophisticated apparatus for influencing public opinion – the mainstream media – cannot mold opinion as powerfully as experience itself. From the dizzying heights of the boom to the economic implosion of the last 10 months, dramatic events are shaking up and transforming the way Americans look at the world around them.
Editorial for Socialist Appeal 48
This is an extended version of the editorial for SA48.
U3 or not U3?
Article from the British Socialist Appeal website about the real rate of unemployment in the United States.
Protests against coup in Honduras in San Francisco
With a military coup occurring in Honduras to oust president Manuel Zeleya on Sunday, a protest was held on Monday afternoon, June 29, in front of the Honduran consulate in San Francisco.
Iran: regime steps up terror – a general strike is needed!
Yesterday in a meeting in London, a young Iranian student criticized me for being too hard on Mousavi, who he considered to be the indisputable leader of the opposition and “the bravest man in Iran.” I replied that, while the Marxists supported the protest movement, it could not succeed in its aims unless the street demonstrations were backed by a general strike of the Iranian workers.
The Communist: The Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.