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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 |
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| 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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Immigration |
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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.... |
| 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.... |
| 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! | |||
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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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| Economic Briefs | |||
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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| Draft Program of the Working Class |
| 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 |
| Visit the: Anti-Imperialist News Service ANTI-IMPERIALIST.ORG |
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