Seniors, students make Santorum sweat
PITTSBURGH — The third-ranking Republican in the Senate, Pennsylvania’s Sen. Rick Santorum, took to the stump selling the privatization of Social Security Feb. 21, but he stumbled and slipped at a well-informed town hall meeting organized by his office at conservative-friendly Duquesne University. click here for Spanish text
Drugs and death in Afghanistan: What happened to Spc. Juan Torres?
Army Specialist Juan Torres had his whole life ahead of him. At 25, Torres (known as John to most of his family and friends) had an accounting degree from the University of Houston and a good job waiting for him back home. He had savings in the bank and was planning his wedding to his girlfriend of seven years, Elizabeth Wise. click here for Spanish text
Arthur Miller, 1915-2005: Giant of American theater had giftedness and guts
Arthur Miller, the man who wrote “Death of a Salesman,” died Feb. 10. And as Linda Loman told the sons of Willy Loman, that sad and epic American dreamer: “Attention must be paid.”
A neglected chapter in West Virginia labor history
BOOK REVIEW The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America’s Greatest Labor Uprising By Robert Shogan Westview Press, 2004 Hardcover, 271 pp., $25.95
Ask the Communists Q&A
Q: Exactly how would socialism happen in the U.S.? What exactly would a socialist government do? Would there be freedom in the political system for a party that advocated capitalism?
Black liberation and working-class unity
OPINION This article, by the editor of our predecessor, The Worker, was written in 1956, and later published in “Revolutionary Tracings, Selected Writings” (International Publishers, 1974). We reprint it, in conjunction with African American History Month, because of its continuing relevance today.
Challenging the Christian right in rural America
OPINION Polls from the recent presidential election showed that many working-class voters support Bush’s Christian right “values agenda.” Why?
China defends Wal-Mart workers
OPINION Just as George W. Bush and the Republicans — who worship at the altar of corporate greed, gleeful at deepening poverty for working families — were basking in the glow of Bush’s re-election, the Chinese government and the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) announced that laws protecting workers’ rights to organize would be enforced at Wal-Mart operations in their country.
EDITORIALS
Who killed Rafik Hariri? / Make ’em responsible
Black Political Struggles in the Rural South
Book Review A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration By Stephen Hahn Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2003 Hardcover, 624 pp., $35 (Soon to be released in softcover)
