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The Battle of Wisconsin by George Martin Fell Brown
18 April 2012
USA: An 'inspiring vibrant movement'
The Battle of Wisconsin by George Martin Fell Brown reviewed by Dave Gorton: Time magazine's "Person of the year" for 2011 was simply "The Protester". From the Maghreb in North Africa to the colder climes of Madison, USA, public places echoed to the sounds of demonstrations
28 March 2012
World warming even faster than thought
Socialist plan needed: If further proof were needed to show that the Tories' election pledge to be the "greenest government ever" was a lie it has now been provided...
Bryan Koulouris, from Socialist Alternative, photo Socialist Party
26 January 2012
Occupy USA - Crisis USA - London Socialist Party video
Occupy Wall street - US Presidential elections - Economic downturn - Bryan Koulouris, from Socialist Alternative, the sister party of the Socialist Party in the USA, explains how the USA is being transformed by the occupy movements which have arisen in anger at the growing inequality between the 1%.
4 January 2012
USA: Occupy movement links with working class
The US 'Occupy' movement and its slogans, such as "We are the 99%", have reflected the huge anger at widening economic and social inequality at a time of recession...
2 November 2011
TV review: This documentary dealt with the nuclear arms race between the USA and the Stalinist USSR from the late 1940s, culminating in the USSR detonating the world's largest nuclear device in 1961, writes Andy Ford.
26 October 2011
Solidarity appeal for 'Occupy Seattle', USA
On Saturday 15 October, Occupy Seattle reached its peak mobilised support with upwards of 5,000 demonstrators...
5 October 2011
USA: Occupy Wall Street struggle spreads
Corporate greed and banks domination challenged: An anti-capitalist protest movement has sprung up in New York, occupying central plazas, inspired by the North African protests earlier in the year dubbed the 'Arab Spring' and similar actions in Spain, Portugal and Greece...
21 September 2011
Breadline USA: 'The rich get richer, the poor get poorer'; is perhaps an overused cliché, but, nevertheless, a phrase that accurately describes social conditions in the USA today...
7 September 2011
Torture Inc.: Unearthed secret correspondence in Tripoli between the Gaddafi regime and western spy networks reveal how US, British and other governments collaborated with the Libyan dictator in the 'rendition' (ie kidnapping) and torture of alleged terrorist suspects...
Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI
3 August 2011
Eurozone and USA - Debt crisis
The price of capitalist failure: Governments in Europe and the US are making working class people pay for the crisis caused by the bankers and the capitalist system.
The Greek bailout, welcomed by the European ruling classes, will do nothing for the Greek masses
17 March 2011
Saturday protest in Madison draws 150,000 to 200,000
MADISON, Wisconsin, USA - Last Saturday saw the largest rally yet in Madison, Wisconsin. Anywhere from 150,000 to 200,000 marched and rallied with their picket signs, chanting their implacable opposition to Governor Walker's anti-worker agenda.
16 March 2011
On 11 February Scott Walker, US Republican state governor of Wisconsin, proposed the introduction of an anti-trade union bill...
Wisconsin workers protest
1 March 2011
Largest protest yet against Wisconsin Governor's anti-union bill
USA: Saturday, 26 February saw the largest demonstrations yet in Madison, Wisconsin. This was the twelfth consecutive day of protest against Republican Gov. Walker's bill to effectively eliminate collective bargaining for public sector workers. An edited version of this report was published in the Socialist.
1 February 2011
US prisoner activist facing violent retaliation
Urgent Solidarity needed - Support Shawn Whatley! Stop all retaliations against Georgia prison strike activists!
24 December 2010
Videos of Socialism 2010 now online
Leaders of some of the most militant trade unions engaged in struggle today against cuts and sackings spoke at the Saturday and Sunday rallies of Socialism 2010...
3 November 2010
USA elections: What the Tea Party really represents
As The Socialist goes to print, US electors will be voting in their mid-term congressional elections...
20 September 2010
The Nature of the Problem: An Impending Environmental Crisis
Few, except for George Bush and his carefully picked 'experts', who speak for the interests of the oil companies and other multinationals, argue against the view that we face an impending environmental crisis...
Extent of surface oil slick on May 24 2010, photo NASA
2 June 2010
Oil spill is 'worst environmental disaster' to hit US
THE OIL spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the fatal explosion on the BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig has exceeded the Exxon Valdez catastrophe of 1989, when eleven million gallons of crude oil devastated the pristine Alaskan coastline...
19 May 2010
USA: Putting forward a Socialist Alternative in Seattle
More than 140 people came to discuss socialist ideas for changing the world at the socialism conference, organised by the CWI-affiliated organisation Socialist Alternative and held at Seattle University, which marked a big step forward for socialists in Washington State, writes Socialist Alternative reporters, US CWI.
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