Editorials from the Freedom Socialist
April 2013
Months of drama in D.C. over the national debt peaked on March 1 in “sequestration” of federal funds to scores of programs. This fancy word masks the truth — austerity. And austerity by any name still stinks.
The cuts are “across-the-board,” to...
April 2013
Anyone who stands up to racism or sexism on the job quickly finds out management cares little about whether these prejudices prowl the workplace. But they are ready to demonize the individual who exposes it. Such was the case when Bradley Manning...
April 2013
The 14 years of Hugo Chávez’ presidency gave U.S. elites plenty of fits. They were appalled that Venezuela’s oil wealth was used for things like alleviating poverty and building schools and health clinics in poor neighborhoods.
And then there was...
February 2013
It took the New Jersey parole board only minutes to deny Sundiata Acoli’s latest attempt at parole. That’s because he’s a Black political prisoner who has stuck to his principles — not because he’s a mortal danger to society.
Acoli, a mathematician...
February 2013
The recent passage of union-busting “right to work” legislation in Michigan was an OMG! moment for all of labor. Unionists wonder how this could happen in Michigan, the fifth most unionized state in the nation, where legendary mass strikes in the...
February 2013
The fires stoked by the Arab Spring and Occupy movement continue to flame across the globe. Take, for example, the angry workers standing up to bullying tactics by U.S. giants Kraft, Hilton, and Coca-Cola.
In Egypt, unionists are demanding that...
December 2012
A disaster like Superstorm Sandy shows capitalism in its true colors. In the midst of chaos and suffering, the stock market in New York City managed a swift reopening after being closed for just two days, with Mayor Bloomberg ringing the opening...
October 2012
THE CORPORATE “education reform” juggernaut, kept rolling by President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and fully endorsed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, looked unstoppable — until it ran into 26,000 striking Chicago educators. “The...
October 2012
A SUSTAINED AND MIGHTY student strike movement in Quebec has brought down a provincial government. Running on a law-and-order platform, the defeated Premier Jean Charest and his party specifically targeted the students’ militant campaign against...
October 2012
THEY MUST BE RUNNING scared, the powers-that-be and their police multitudes. Because armed raids and secret grand juries against political dissidents are on the rise.
First they came for 23 socialist, anti-war, and union movement leaders in the...