Features from the Freedom Socialist
June 2010
In Fall 2009, the University of California’s ten-campus system exploded in protest, including walkouts and strikes, to stop the state’s draconian budget cuts. Out of the initial action on Sept. 24, a statewide conference was convened to deepen and...
June 2010
In the early decades of the 1900s, a vibrant and radical labor movement thrived in the U.S. In later years political attacks, such as the anti-communist witchhunts of the ’50s and union busting of the Reagan era, took its toll on organized labor and...
June 2010
The inhumanity of the U.S. healthcare system torments me every day at my job as an injury claims adjuster. I see the anguish of customers who cannot pay exorbitant medical bills after their claims are denied. One day I could no longer sit by as this...
June 2010
Ten years into the new millennium, queer theater is bursting out on Broadway. The one resounding drawback is that none deals with lesbian, bi- or trans- relationships. But surely they will. And it should be soon.
Playwright Jan Moran’s The...
June 2010
Some people think that today’s feudalistic institutions and outdated economic system can be reformed and gradually become kinder and gentler — even humane.
I don’t think the juice is worth the squeeze.
From the Roman Catholic Church to corporations...
June 2010
LABOR POWER
Good news from unionist
At the Washington State Labor Council COPE (Committee on Political Education) conference on Saturday, May 15, angry state employees blocked the endorsement of most state senators and a number of state...
June 2010
April 2010: Philly nurses persevere Temple University Hospital nurses and staff in Philadelphia gain student support and win a 28-day strike over pay and benefits. And they defeat a gag rule meant to stop their campaign for safe nurse-to-patient...
April 2010
We came from Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney — activists from the frontlines of what is growing into a full-on fight for abortion rights in Australia. This was the first interstate assembly of grassroots campaigners in my decades of reproductive...
April 2010
Maybe you’re over your part time job at Wendy’s. Maybe you’re over student loan collectors calling when you’re unemployed. Over worrying about how to pay to go to the dentist or doctor. It’s likely you’re over the fake promises of Obama and the...
April 2010
Below are excerpts from “Memoirs of a Communist Childhood: The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti” written by Murry Weiss and originally published in the Spring 1982 edition of the Freedom Socialist newspaper. Weiss was one of Trotskyism’s founders in...