Socialist Organizer

A press conference was called in Algiers on May 1st by the PT (Workers’ Party). The PT’s General Secretary, Louisa Hanoune, denounced the threats of foreign intervention against Algeria. “We have not called this conference press to talk about the current situation in the country — such as, for example, Algeria’s entry into the WTO, [...]

In recent months, Peabody Coal Co. has been the subject of large militant protests by both environmentalists and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Union. Peabody, the world’s largest and most prosperous coal energy company, has its world headquarters in a shining big skyscraper in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. A few decades ago, coal [...]

Invited by the Sao Paulo-based committee “Defending Haiti Is to Defend Ourselves,” the Haitian senator, Jean Charles Moise, came for a tour around a few major Brazilians cities. He was the senator who proposed the unanimously approved motion in the Haitian Senate for the withdrawn of the UN troops from the country. In Brazil he was [...]

The origins of International Workers’ Day — May 1st — lie in a heroic moment in the history of the U.S. working class, which has an inspirational tradition of struggle long hidden by the mainstream media and textbooks. The Struggle for A Shorter Workday  In the 19th century, working conditions in United States were comparable to those you see [...]

Earlier this month, on April 11-12, a great number of students, teachers and staff walked out of class at Indiana University(IU). These actions were centered mostly at IU Bloomington, but there was smaller support from satellite campuses at South Bend, Indianapolis and Indiana University Southeast in New Albany. The strike had been planned since December, [...]

Scott Cooper is a long-time activist who lives in Newton, Massachusetts, a city that borders on Boston and through which the Boston Marathon runs. We asked him about the bombing at the Marathon and his reactions to the lockdown the Friday after as police sought the suspects. Q: Scott, tell us about the situation in [...]

On April 10 President Barack Obama announced his budget for 2014, which includes proposals for $230 billion in cuts to Social Security and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next 10 years. The budget’s total “savings,” Obama said, are necessary to reduce the nation’s deficit. This was the first time that a Democratic [...]

Maggie Sager, a junior Middle Eastern Studies major at UC Berkeley, is a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), as well as Socialist Organizer. She is a transfer student from City College of San Francisco. [A photo of a shadowed person holding a megaphone with Sather Tower in the background] Can you spell [...]

  After the victory of the Chavista candidate, Nicolás Maduro, in the Venezuelan presidential election on April 14, serious provocations have been unleashed by the pro-imperialist opposition forces with the aim of instigating an institutional crisis that could open the way to annulling the sovereign will of the people. A few hours after the announcement [...]

Presentation Nicolás Maduro is the winner of the election that took place on April 14, succeeding Hugo Chávez as Venezuela’s president. This election was immediately challenged by U.S. imperialism and its candidate Henrique Capriles, who during his campaign did not hesitate to call on sectors of the military to organize a coup and cancel the [...]