By Susan Pashkoff: In the first three months of 2013, 694 provisions restricting a women’s right to choose have been introduced in different US states. The fact that amendments to the constitutions of various states give the foetus “personhood” is [...]
Janet Ray reflects on the life of this extraordinary woman: Mother Jones was both a trade union and community organiser, a tiny woman dressed always in black. She had no fixed abode but went from strike to strike helping workers [...]
On live television, Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro choked on his words. Hugo Chávez, the improbable President, born in the rural poverty of Sabaneta, in the state of Barinas, in 1954 had died of cancer. Jeffery R. Webber To his wealthy and [...]
NO (Chile 2012 directed by Pablo Larrain) is reviewed by Dave Kellaway. ‘Happiness is coming’ was the main campaign slogan and jingle of the anti-Pinochet campaign in the 1988 plebiscite. At the beginning it was vehemently opposed by senior opposition leaders, [...]
In the 1930s the United States government commissioned large numbers of artists as a way of giving them work during the New Deal writes Liam Mac Uaid. If Obama were running a similar programme it would probably give us something [...]
The shooting of 20 six and seven year olds and four of their teachers at a primary school in Newton, Connecticut by a lone gun man sent shock waves around the world writes Piers Mostyn. To read a California teacher’s [...]
A review of Cuba since the revolution, Samuel Farber Haymarket Books 2011 Dave Kellaway The victory of the Cuban revolution in 1959 and its subsequent radicalisation had a direct impact in the advanced capitalist countries. The expropriation of nearly all [...]
What’s it like to be a teacher in an American school in the aftermath of a mass killing? Abra Quinn works in a school in Oakland California and offers a teacher’s perspective. Immediately after Sandy Hook – the Connecticut elementary [...]
Jeffery R. Webber analyses the Venezuelan election result. That Chávez had to win last Sunday’s elections in order for the Bolivarian process to continue – in whatever form – was recognized by close to the entirety of the Venezuelan Left [...]
On Monday in Chicago, a new generation of working class activists hit the picket lines in the city’s first teacher strike in a quarter century. In contrast to the 1980s (when the CTU struck three times) this will be the [...]
Ian Parker reports from a very unusual conference
This article by Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber was written for the Canadian Socialist Project and published under the title Paraguay’s Parliamentary Coup and Ottawa’s Imperial Response on June 26. A soft-coup has ousted Centre-Leftist Fernando Lugo from the [...]
David Finkel reports from the United States on a disturbingly eccentric bunch of presidential hopefuls. I assume that viewed from outside America, the roster of Republican candidates for the party’s U.S. presidential nomination looks like the weirdest collection of screwballs [...]
The 30th anniversary of Britain’s invasion of the Falklands to remove an occupation force sent by Argentinian military dictator General Galtieri, comes at a time of renewed controversy over the British presence in the region writes Alan Thornett . The [...]
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