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The Workers Party is calling on all anti-war activists, on everyone who longs for peace, to join us in discussing the way forward - in sorting out what needs to be done to advance the anti-war struggle and win the peace.... |
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| Against War & Imperialism | |
Introduction (9.5 min.) |
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Against War and Imperialism |
| Hands Off Iran! | |
The U.S. government keeps marching down the road to war against Iran.... |
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| Behind the Headlines | |
Iran |
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Iraq and the "War Against Terrorism" |
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| The Immigration System of the U.S. Capitalist Class | |
The immigration policy of the U.S. capitalist class has long been to encourage large scale immigration while relying on its state machine to impose a system of discrimination and persecution against immigrants in order to maintain a cheap pool of labor....
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| This Fascism Must be Stopped! | |
As The Worker goes to press more than 100 of the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are on a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment....
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| Government Must Make All the Investments Necessary to Extend the Social and Public Sectors of the Economy | |
On April 10, Obama sent his fiscal 2014 budget proposal to Congress. The proposal calls for a $93 billion increase in federal spending for the year....
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| U.S. Imperialism Must End its Military Occupation and Interference in Korea! | |
On March 29 U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel blamed the perceived "tone" of formal proclamations made by the North Korean government for "ratcheting up the danger."...
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History of U.S. Occupation of Korea |
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Recent exposures of atrocities committed by the U.S. military during the Korean War have again provided a glimpse of the typical methods used by U.S. imperialism....
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| What Aim for Society? | |
In his State of the Union address Obama put forward a program for subordinating everything in America to the interests of the U.S. and international monopolists....
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| Obama's Smear and Destabilization Campaign Against Venezuela | |
In a high-profile commentary made only hours after the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, U.S. President Barack Obama broadcast the fact that he considers Chavez' death the beginning of "a new chapter" in the history of Venezuela....
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| U.S. Continues Provocations Against North Korea | |
As The Worker goes to press, the U.S. and South Korean military forces are in the midst of large-scale war "games," code-named Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, on the Korean peninsula....
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| The American People Demand Peace! | |
According to a new doctrine laid out in a U.S. Department of Justice White Paper "an informed high level official of the U.S. government" could order assassination if he or she decides to believe the target is "a leader of al-Qaida."...
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| Democratic Foreign Policy | |
The struggle against war and imperialism is a vital part of the struggle of the American working class and people....
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The Executive Power |
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Behind the democratic facade of the present system the real power is concentrated in the executive branch of government, including the vast bureaucratic machinery of the federal, state and local governments....
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| Militarization is Bankrupting the Economy | |
Throughout the country people are demanding to know why Obama and Congress agreed to spend over $633 billion on the military for 2013 even as they work out plans for slashing social programs in the name of "balancing the budget."...
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| Who Was There to Vote For? | |
The 2012 elections again revealed the bankruptcy of the current election process and the people's alienation from the political system....
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| Roots of the Conflict in the Middle East | |
The following reference article shows how the state of Israel was founded through the imperialist ambitions and intrigues of Western colonialism (today Israel remains a creature of U.S. imperialism) and by violently usurping the national homeland of the Palestinian people....
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| Palestine Brief | |
Reprinted from the Anti-Imperialist News Service....
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| Print Edition, 11/27/12 HTML |
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Oppose U.S.-Israeli Aggression! Support the Palestinian Liberation Struggle! |
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Everyday the crisis of the current political system deepens. More and more people become fed up with the two big parties and the government and the workers grapple with the question of how to create a genuine alternative....
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| Special Edition, 11/19/12 HTML |
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| For the Independent Politics of the Working Class | |
Everyday the crisis of the current political system deepens. More and more people become fed up with the two big parties and the government and the workers grapple with the question of how to create a genuine alternative....
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| Rights and Government for Whom? | |
These days, even as the government is carrying out a broad-scale offensive against the American people, the politicians – Republicans and Democrats alike – never stop repeating such catch phrases as "getting government off the people's backs" and boasting of their commitment to "individual liberty" and the "sovereignty of the individual."...
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| Whose Agenda for Education? | |
The elections are being used by the Democratic and Republican parties to promote their version of school "reform."...
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| Workers Must Assert Their Collective Rights | |
The trend of governmental offensives against unions and the rights of workers is continuing....
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| What is Blocking the Way? | |
In this column, "Road of the Party," we discuss some of the fundamental political and theoretical issues facing the working class....
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| End U.S. Aggression in Afghanistan! | |
Throughout the world, the peoples are demanding: “U.S., Out of Afghanistan!” “Stop the Wars!”...
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| U.S. Imperialism, Out of the Philippines! | |
The cause of the people for a permanent end to U.S. military presence in the Philippines is in danger because of the aggressive war program of U.S. imperialism....
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| U.S. Special Forces Stationed at the Jordan-Syria Border | |
In August U.S., British and Jordanian forces carried out joint military exercises in Jordan near the border with Syria....
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| The People Must Find the Solutions | |
The capitalist election campaign is designed to de-politicize people and push the masses away from real and active participation in the political affairs of the country....
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| No War on Syria! | |
The Obama administration's high profile anti-Syria campaign has lasted well over a year....
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| There Is An Alternative! | |
Every day the TV, radio and newspapers are filled with stories about the Presidential candidates....
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| Taking Action | |
As the work to develop widescale discussion amongst the people over their aims and agenda for society intensifies, more and more people are asking: "What should we do? How can we participate in changing the political and social system so as to empower the people and guarantee their rights?"...
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| Hands Off Iran! | |
The U.S. government is using military blackmail against Iran with the open aim of starting a war to overthrow the government....
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One of the most serious obstacles in the way of the further development and realization of democracy in the U.S. – of a government genuinely of the people, by the people and for the people – is the system of privilege which is manifest in the political monopoly exercised by the Democratic and Republican parties....
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| Print Edition, 6/12/12 HTML |
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| For a Pro-Social Agenda | |
During the last several years the monopoly capitalist class has been stepping up its anti-social offensive in our country....
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| The Program of Economic Rights is the Alternative to the Economic Policy of the Democrats and Republicans | |
In every aspect, Obama's economic program represents the consensus program of the monopoly capitalist class – of the big business interests....
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| Handing Over the Country to Big Business | |
One of the latest trends in the privatization movement of the U.S. monopoly capitalist class is the creation of so-called "public-private partnerships" which use various forms of privatization in order to place public resources at the disposal of the private sector....
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| Stepped-up U.S. Intervention in Colombia | |
These days, the military ties between the U.S. and Colombian governments are closer than ever....
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| U.S. Imperialism Must End Its Military Occupation and Interference in Iraq! | |
On February 16 Ali Al-Adeeb, Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research attended a meeting in Washington D.C. to discuss Iraq's internal affairs with U.S. State Department officials....
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| Against War and Imperialism | |
To further the discussions on how to advance the movements against capitalist globalization and the war program of U.S. imperialism, we are printing excerpts from Michael Thorburn's pamphlet "Against War and Imperialism."...
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| Peoples' Liberation Struggles Are a Great Force for Peace | |
As The Worker goes to press, the U.S.-Israeli aggressors are carrying out new attacks against the Palestinian people....
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| U.S. Intervention in the Philippines | |
On March 4, the Communist Party of the Philippines issued a press release...
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| Join in Building the Alternative! | |
Even though the elections are still months away, the Democratic and Republican party politicians have already been campaigning for several months....
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| Who Controls the Political Power? | |
The experience of the Workers Party is that amongst the people, there is widespread and growing disillusionment with the political system and political process....
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| U.S. Imperialism, Hands Off Syria! | |
The Obama administration is continuing to "decree" that the government of Syria step down from political power and to call on the Syrian people and government to remember that the U.S. keeps "all options on the table" to achieve its aims there....
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Over the last several months, millions and millions of people all across Syria have come out in repeated mass actions to demand an end to U.S. and foreign interference and to defeat the U.S. plot to “regime change” the Syrian government.... |
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| Special Edition, 12/19/11 HTML |
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On November 30, Chicago Public Schools announced an extensive privatization plan.... |
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Greater Arbitrary Power Behind the "School of the Assassins" |
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On November 19, more than five thousand people turned out for a demonstration to demand the closing of the U.S. Department of Defense WHINSEC (also known as the School of the Americas) at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia.... |
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The U.S. government and its NATO allies are boasting that they have won victory and brought "liberation" to Libya.... |
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With the bipartisan, nearly unanimous support of both parties, a South Korean Free Trade Agreement, a Panamian Free Trade Agreement, and a Colombian Free Trade Agreement have been passed in Congress and signed into law by Obama.... |
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| Build the Popular Front Against War and Imperialism | |
The movement in opposition to the U.S.-NATO war against Libya is bringing broad, new sections of people into active political life. |
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How many times have people been told that "Even though none of the candidates are any good, you just have to vote for the 'lesser evil?'" |
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| Two Urgent Tasks | |
Despite the U.S. government's insatiable appetite for pre-emptive war and the atmosphere of continual crisis drummed up in the monopoly-controlled media, the American people are not giving way and will not give way to chauvinism and militarism. |
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| Print Edition, 9/13/11 HTML |
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| World-Wide Economic Crisis | |
For the last several years, the finance ministers, bankers and political leaders from the world's leading capitalist countries have been forced to return again and again to the agenda of the deepening global financial and economic crisis.... |
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In the first article in this series, "Introduction to Political Economy," we showed how the capitalist system, based on private ownership of the means of production, disenfranchises the workers and reduces them to the condition of wage-slaves.... |
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| Role of the Party | |
In order to bring the politics of economic rights, democratic renewal, a democratic foreign policy and socialism to center-stage, in order to assist the initiative of the workers to come out under their own banners and take a leading role in the political affairs of our country, the decisive thing is to build and strengthen the Party itself.... |
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| Anti-Worker Legislation | |
All across the country, state governments are implementing or preparing new labor laws which strike directly against the rights of the workers.... |
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| Reference Material on Anti-Worker Legislation | |
Some of the features of the anti-worker measures being taken or prepared by state governments include: Gutting unemployment insurance and workers' compensation which provide income-support for the unemployed and for workers injured on the job.... |
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| Causes and Lessons of the Second World War | |
This year (6/22) marks the 70th anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany. Below we reprint a speech given by Hardial Bains in September of 1989 on the occassion of the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion of Poland by Germany.... |
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| Campaign for Economic Rights | |
The economic well-being and very livelihoods of the American people are under attack on two fronts.... |
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| Hands Off Syria! | |
The Obama administration is stepping up its threats and pressure against Syria.... |
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| Growing Rebellion Against U.S. Occupation of Iraq | |
On May 25 in Baghdad, 100,000 protestors gathered in Tahrir Squair to demanded the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq.... |
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| Venezuela Rejects U.S. Sanctions | |
The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has learned of the decision announced by the Department of State of the United States to impose sanctions against our oil national company, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), as part of a unilateral law targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran known as CISADA.... |
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| Building the Mass Workers' Press | |
Building The Worker is the basic task which the Workers Party has taken up in the present period.... |
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| Robbery at the Gas Pump! | |
Price-gouging by the big oil monopolies is breaking the budgets of millions of working people.... |
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| Iraqis Protest U.S. Occupation | |
Growing struggles demanding an end to the U.S. occupation are taking place throughout Iraq.... |
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| On the History of U.S. Policy in the Middle East | |
Below we provide some background on U.S. policy in the Middle East which first appeared in a previous issue of The Worker.... |
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| The Necessity for Independent Working Class Politics | |
The very fact that, under capitalism, the working class is an exploited and oppressed class forces the workers to wage a two-fold struggle, to continuously and at the same time fight for social reforms and social revolution.... |
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| For a Moratorium on the Debt | |
The Workers Party has called for a moratorium on interest payments on the federal debt.... |
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| Building The Worker | |
Building The Worker is the basic task which the Workers Party has taken up in the present period.... |
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| U.S. Launches Airstrikes on Lybia | |
On March 19, the Obama administration launched airstrikes on Lybia.... |
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Across the country, millions of workers are taking part in meetings, demonstrations and other actions to oppose cutbacks in social services and the wave of government attacks which are trying to hamstring or eliminate altogether public employee unions and suppress the collective rights of these workers.... |
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| Build the Mass Workers' Press | |
Building The Worker is the basic task which the Workers Party has taken up in the present period.... |
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| Support the Struggle of the Egyptian People! Stop U.S. Military Aid to Egypt! U.S. Imperialism, Out of the Middle East! |
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The Egyptian uprising has dealt the Hosni Mubarak regime and its sponsor, U.S. imperialism, an important setback even as the people continue the struggle to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictatorship. |
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The perspective of the monopoly-controlled media is that there are only, perhaps, a few thousand people in the world – or only a few thousand people who count for anything.... |
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| Support the Struggle of the Egyptian People! Stop U.S. Military Aid to Egypt! |
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The Obama administration is working to buy time for the ruling elite in Egypt by once again resurrecting the "now that we're there we can't leave" theme.... |
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| The People Must Decide on the Government's Budget | |||
The Workers Party has a very simple proposal for putting an end to the political posturing and wrangling of the Democrats and Republicans over the federal budget.... |
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| Illinois Education Bill | |||
On December 16th and 17th the Illinois General Assembly held hearings on a bill called the Performance Counts Act.... |
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| Support the Palestinian People's Struggle | |||
The U.S. is once again insisting that the Palestinians accept the U.S. as the "honest broker" seeking "peace" between Israeli zionism and the Palestinian people even while the U.S. and Israel blatantly refuse to recognize the rights of the Palestinian people.... |
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| Obama's Federal Wage Freeze | |||
On December 22, Congress passed a bill authorizing Obama's proposal to freeze federal workers' wages for two years.... |
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| Strategy for Alliance for Aggression | |||
The politico-military situation on the Korean Peninsula that was driven to the brink of a war this year is arousing deep concern of the international community.... |
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| Guantanamo Prisoners to be Held "Indefinitely" | |||
In a December 26 interview with CNN, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs admitted that many of the 174 prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay will be held without trial "indefinitely" and that the Guantanamo prison itself will remain open for the forseeable future.... |
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| Hands Off Korea! | |||
On November 23, South Korean artillery deployed on Yonphyong Island opened fire into the territorial waters of the DPRK ("North Korea") in the West (Yellow) Sea of Korea.... |
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For the 19th consecutive occasion, the United Nations General Assembly has condemned the U.S. blockade of Cuba.... |
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During the weekend of November 19-21, thousands of people will travel to Fort Benning, Georgia to demand that the U.S. army close down its "School of the Americas" (SOA), renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC).... |
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| Nurses Strike for Safe Staffing | |||
On October 26th, some 300 nurses in California walked off the job at Watsonville Community Hospital.... |
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One of the most decisive tasks facing us is to transform the widespread but spontaneous struggles of the people into a conscious and systematic movement.... |
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The U.S. government lives and breathes chauvinism like humans breathe air... |
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| Marxism-Leninism – Theory of the Working Class Movement for Emancipation | |||
Marxism-Leninism holds that the only thing that exists, in both the natural world as well as society, is matter in motion. Thus society which exists objectively outside the mind and independent of the will of individuals is in a constant state of change, development and motion.... |
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| Profits for a Few, Poverty for Many | |||
Recent government statistics showing that the poverty rate hit the highest point in 15 years confirm the well know fact that, in this country whose rulers boast to the whole world of their wealth, millions of people are forced to go without the basic necessities of life.... |
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| Colonization of Iraq Means War | |||
As the Obama administration and monopoly controlled media are advertising the so-called "end of combat operations," U.S. imperialism is unfolding its economic program for Iraq.... |
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| The Need for Theory | |||
One of the defining human qualities is the capacity of human beings to learn and apply scientific theory. By theory, we mean the laws inherent in the objective, material world.... |
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| Anti-Arab Racism is Part of the War Program | |||
Since the U.S. government launched its aggressive wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, anti-Arab racism and attacks on Muslims have become part of the official ideology of the U.S. government.... |
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| Hands Off Social Security and Medicare! | |||
The Democratic and Republican politicians, along with the monopoly-controlled media, are engaged in a big campaign to prepare public opinion for dramatic cutbacks in Medicare and Social Security.... |
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| Need for Democratic Renewal | |||
Democratic renewal – that is, fundamental change in the political process and political system – is the central point in the program of the Workers Party.... |
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As the crisis of capitalism deepens and the problems facing the people go from bad to worse, as the political process continues to block the participation of the people at every turn, excluding them from governance and entrenching the power of big business, the workers and people have no choice but to take the question of politics into their own hands.... |
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U.S. imperialism's demand that Iran stop its nuclear energy program is nothing more nor less than a way to fabricate a pretext for war.... |
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| More Evidence of U.S. War Crimes in Iraq | |||
An article published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health, based in Switzerland, found that the genetic damage and health effects of the war in Fallujah are comparable to the effects seen after the U.S. dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima.... |
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| Problems Are Meant to Be Solved | |||
The attitude which an individual or a collective takes towards solving the problems of building the independent working class movement is one of the decisive issues in the ideological struggle between the workers and the capitalists.... |
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| New U.S. Pressures Against Iran | |||
On June 9, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution demanding that Iran freeze all activities related to uranium enrichment.... |
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| Who is Responsible for Police Violence Against Immigrants? | |||
On May 28, a longtime resident of San Diego was murdered by U.S. Border Patrol. Eyewitnesses reported that after the man was arrested, as many as twenty U.S. Border Patrol agents brutally punched and kicked the man even after he had fallen to the ground.... |
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In recent weeks, workers throughout Europe have organized widespread strikes and other actions in opposition to the attempts of monopoly capital to further shift the burden of the economic crisis onto the backs of the people.... |
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| New York Removes Existing Cap on Charter Schools | |||
On May 28, the state of New York passed a law to more than double the amount of charter schools.... |
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| Who Decides? | |||
In this issue of The Worker, we publish two articles which provide information about the government’s program of slashing funds for vital public services. In fact, on all fronts the economic well-being of the people is under attack.... |
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| Movement Demands Full Rights for Immigrants | |||
A massive movement demanding full rights for immigrants is developing all across the country.... |
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| School Districts to Cut Tens of Thousands of Jobs | |||
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) recently conducted a survey of 1,479 school administrators in 49 states and found that 82% of school districts across the country will eliminate the jobs of 14,787 teachers in the 2010-11 school year.... |
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| More State Budget Cuts Expected | |||
As a new fiscal year approaches, state governments are preparing yet another round of deep budget cuts in which they will slash social services, raise working people’s taxes, and cut the wages and jobs of public workers.... |
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Jobless Recovery |
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| The Workers Must Assert Their Right to a Safe Workplace | |||
April 28 is Workers Memorial Day. All across the U.S. and Canada, workers will organize actions to remember those who have been killed or injured on the job and to develop new initiatives to win the right to a safe work environment. |
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| Current Tactics of U.S. Imperialism | |||
Recently, the U.S. government and monopoly controlled media have launched a "new" propaganda campaign about the threat of "nuclear terrorism" and the "arms buildup" of various countries which allegedly are trying to buy weapons on the black market and to acquire advanced military technology. |
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| Push Forward the Anti-War Struggle! | |||
The American people in their millions and tens of millions, are demanding: "U.S. Troops, Out of Iraq and Afghanistan, Now!"... |
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| New Threats and Pressure Against Iran | |||
The U.S. is stepping up its threats and pressure against Iran. The U.S. government is instigating the UN Security Council to impose more economic sanctions against Iran.... |
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| U.S. Steps Up Military Offensives in Afghanistan | |||
On February 13, 7,500 U.S., British and Afghan puppet troops supported by attack helicopters and jet fighters invaded and occupied the Afghan town of Marjah and the surrounding area... |
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| More Funding for Border Militarization | |||
The Obama administration's proposed 2011 budget includes some $4.6 billion that would be used to continue funding 20,000 Border Patrol agents and to complete the Arizona portion of a U.S.-Mexico border fence under construction... |
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| The Right to a Livelihood | |||
The Workers Party says that a job or a livelihood is a right. We insist that it is the elementary responsibility of society to guarantee, in law and in practice, that everyone has a secure job or stable livelihood commensurate with our country's high level of economic development.... |
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| On the Organizing Role of the Workers' Press | |||
Broadening and deepening the content of the mass workers' press and increasing its circulation is a vital part of building the independent working class movement.... |
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There is no lack of opposition to the government's program of war, exploitation, racism and repression. But the people's struggles suffer from a lack of organization and independent politics.... |
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| The Struggle Over Health Care | |||
The right to comprehensive and free health care is one of the urgent needs of the people.... |
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| Obama's Health Care "Reform" | |||
Modern medicine and technology have created all the means necessary to provide health care for the people. But for the capitalists, the health care industry is only another means for maximizing profits... |
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| Resistance is the Only Solution | |||
Under the Obama administration, civil liberties and democratic rights are under sharp attack.... |
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| On the Organizing Role of the Workers Party | |||
In this article we raise some issues concerning the organizational role of the Party and the importance of all class conscious and active workers taking a hand in the work of building the Party.... |
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| While the Rich Get Richer | |||
While the recession and the government's economic policies are forcing tens of millions of Americans into dire poverty, other people are doing rather well for themselves....
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| More Money for War | |||
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At the end of October, Obama signed a $690 billion defense bill, the largest of its kind since WWII... |
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| "School of the Americas" Protest in Georgia | |||
On November 22, thousands of people gathered outside of Fort Benning, Georgia, to demand the closing of the "School of the Americas" and an end to U.S. military intervention throughout Latin America.... |
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| On the Theoretical and Ideological Work of the Party | |||
The political party of the working class is the key tool built by the workers in the struggle for political power.... |
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| The Foreign Policy of Barack Obama | |||
Large numbers of people have seen that the Obama administration's slogan of "change" in foreign policy is simply a cover for continuing, and escalating, U.S. imperialism's program for world domination....
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| How to Unite the People | |||
Every day, workers are urgently raising such questions as: "What is holding back the development of our independent class movement?" "Why are we still relatively disorganized?" "Why are there splits and divisions amongst the workers?," etc.. |
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| What Kind of Organization Do We Need? | |||
Without organization it is impossible to translate the Party's program into practice; in fact, without organization it is impossible to do anything. Organization is that thing between theory and practice which enables human beings to put their ideas into effect and change the situation. One of the defining human qualities is that humans organize themselves as the means to transform - to humanize - their natural and social environment.... |
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Building the mass workers press is a vital part of developing the workers' independent political movement..... |
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| The Health Care Plans of the Politicians Provide No Solutions | |||
Both the Democratic and Republican parties have put forward a welter of health care plans which they advertise as proof of their "concern" for the people and the answer to the health care crisis. But the plain truth is that none of these proposals offer a solution to the problem.... |
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One of the great strengths of the Workers Party is its unity. |
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| U.S. Plans More Militarization of Colombia | |||
The Obama administration is negotiating a deal with the Colombian government that would allow the U.S. military to run its operations directly out of five Colombian military bases.... |
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| Hands Off Korea! | |||
Since May 25, when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted a nuclear test, the U.S. government has launched an intense campaign to isolate and pressure the DPRK.... |
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| Health Care is a Right | |||
Our society has created a system of advanced medical science and technology but this system is not used to take care of the health of the people.... |
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| Illlinois Workers Fight Against Budget Cuts | |||
Throughout the state of Illinois, workers are speaking out against proposed budget cuts. On June 23, for example 5,000 people converged on the capitol in Springfield to demand an end to spending cuts. The protest included large contingents of health workers, public employees, unemployed workers, seniors, students, and people from many walks of life.... |
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| Monopolizing the Health Care Agenda | |||
Barack Obama is making health care reform a centerpiece of his 2009 legislative agenda. While refusing from the start to allow all options for health care reform to be on the agenda for discussion, he has also repeatedly stated his intent to compromise on each and every point of his proposal.... |
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| U.S. War in Pakistan | |||
On May 18 the UN refugee agency reported that more than 1.5 million people have been displaced from their homes in Pakistan this month, bringing the number of displaced persons in Pakistan to over 2 million.... |
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| The Budget Deficit | |||
When one stops to analyze both the causes of the budget deficit, as well as the "solutions" offered by Republicans and Democrats alike, one sees that the entire matter is a class question.... |
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| Is There an Alternative to the Free Market System? | |||
One of the central points in the ideological struggle between the capitalist class and the working class is the question of what kind of economic system is required to insure the well-being of the people as well as economic development and the progress of society.... |
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| The "War on Terrorism" is a Program for World Domination | |||
In a March 27 speech announcing his administration's strategy for the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan Obama declared, “let me be clear: al Qaeda and its allies – the terrorists who planned and supported the 9/11 attacks – are in Pakistan and Afghanistan.” The shameless use of the tragedy of September 11, 2001 as a pretext for escalating and spreading the wars shows that U.S. imperialism wants and needs this war.... |
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| Utopian or Scientific by Bill Foster |
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Recently a young friend told me how she gets quite angry when people try to write off her struggle for social change - for socialism and communism - by saying: “those are nice ideas, but they're utopian.”... |
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| Dangerous Threats and Pressure Against North Korea! | |||
On April 5, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched a communications satellite into space. The launch of a communications satellite is part of the DPRK’s development of space technology and is its sovereign right.... |
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| End the Blockade of Cuba! | |||
Amidst widespread condemnation of the U.S. blockade of Cuba by governments throughout Latin America ahead of the Summit of the Americas (a meeting of all the countries in the hemisphere, excluding Cuba) Obama administration officials have repeatedly emphasized that the U.S. will “maintain the embargo as an inducement for democratic change on the island.”... |
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| The "War on Terrorism" Arises From the Crisis of Imperialism | |||
The U.S. government declared a so-called “war against international terrorism” which it said would “last for decades.” Already, the U.S. has invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and keeps escalating counter-insurgency wars in these countries.... |
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| U.S. Sending More Troops to Afghanistan | |||
In a speech on March 10, Vice President Biden admitted that the U.S. is sending more troops to Afghanistan because U.S.-NATO forces "are not winning the war."... |
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| U.S.-Israeli Aggression Continues in the Name of "Peace" | |||
In the name of so-called “peace” in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Clinton openly declares that the U.S. and Israel will impose conditions on Palestinian participation in a Palestinian unity government.... |
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| Hundreds of Thousands of Job Cuts a Month | |||
Mass layoffs are proceeding at a rapid rate. According to Forbes.com, 524,000 layoffs are expected during February. This follows an estimated 500,000 job cuts in January.... |
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| U.S. Threatens Iran | |||
The U.S. continues to threaten Iran as a potential target for the "war against terrorism."... |
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| Chicago Closing More Public Schools | |||
In January the Chicago School Board announced a plan for closing some schools and "reorganizing" others.... |
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| Editorial: Guarantying the Economic Rights of the People | |||
Nowadays, the facts of life for the working people are: |
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| U.S. Digs in for Long-Term Occupation of Iraq | |||
On December 31, the UN Security Council resolution backing the U.S. occupation of Iraq expired and a Status of Forces "Agreement" took effect. The Status of Forces "Agreement" (SOFA) allows the U.S. to continue its occupation of Iraq under the cover of "deterring aggression and threats against the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of Iraq and against its democratic, federal, and constitutional system," and a "transition of power."... |
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| Background: U.S.-Israeli Aggression in Gaza | |||
Below we print a timeline of key events leading up to the bloody Israeli massacre of hundreds of Palestinians going on today. We begin with a day in the summer of 2004 when Israel decided to withdraw its military from the Gaza Strip and end with the January 3 invasion. Political deception, economic strangulation and overwhelming military force are among the methods being used by Israel as it tries to dictate its will through terror and crush the Palestinian nation.... |
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| Only the Peoples Can Stop the Wars!  A Program for Struggle Against U.S. Imperiaism's "War Against Terrorism" by Michael Thorburn |
| Creating the Subjective Conditions for Revolution by Michael Thorburn   |
| Campaign for Economic Rights |
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