International articles from the Freedom Socialist
June 2010
U.S. politicians want us to believe that they send soldiers into countries like Iraq and Afghanistan only as a last resort, and only for the noblest of causes. Nothing could be further from the truth. The incessant carnage, costing billions each...
April 2010
Multinational corporations and the governments that caused the misery in Haiti must pay for its reconstruction!
The tragedy in Haiti has shocked people everywhere. It is feared that there are more than 100,000 dead and many more wounded. Millions...
April 2010
If the Jan. 12 earthquake was a “natural” disaster, salt was nature’s primary weapon — ground into Haiti’s wounds by centuries of exploitation, first from plantation slavery and then capitalist plunder.
France and the United States quite...
April 2010
“Protests of last summer’s election fraud quickly grew to defiant uprisings, beginning a new revolutionary period in Iran,” declared Kamran Sharifi, an Iranian social justice activist and Marxist analyst. Sharifi was joined by Monica Hill, a...
February 2010
Polar ice caps and glaciers are melting. The Sahara Desert is expanding. And sea levels are rising. The hottest 10 years on record have all been since 1997. And this is all happening much faster than climate scientists predicted.
The United Nations...
February 2010
Women are a revolutionary force. That fact shows in their holiday, International Women’s Day (IWD), both its past and present. Because the profit system depends on the second-class status of women, the day that honors them is bound to be connected...
February 2010
“How can you buy or sell the sky? The warmth of the land? We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water.” These words are often attributed to Chief Seattle in 1854, when the expanding United States sought to buy land from the...
February 2010
One Hemisphere Indivisible: Permanent Revolution and Neoliberalism in the Americas, by Guerry Hoddersen, was adopted at the 2006 U.S. convention of the Freedom Socialist Party. Excerpts are below.
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Free-traders were betting that neoliberalism...
December 2009
What's behind the controversy in high places over U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan? It's not whether the United States should even be at war. It is how to conduct the war, and how a president who won office backed by anti-war constituents can get...
December 2009
Electrical workers' union under attack
MEXICO - On Nov. 11, several hundred thousand people protested in Mexico City, and thousands more demonstrated across the country to show solidarity with the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME). The mass...