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The Pentagon's strategy review: A blueprint for world war

“The tide of war is receding,” President Barack Obama declared, not once, but twice on Thursday in his brief remarks at the Pentagon introducing a new defense guidance strategy that formally announces an aggressive US buildup toward military confrontation with Ch …

There is no reformist way out of the crisis of capitalism – Part Two

Another variation on the demand to “tax the rich” is the call for a tax on financial transactions, otherwise known as a “Financial Transactions Tax” (FTT), “Tobin Tax” (after the Nobel economics laureate, James Tobin, who first proposed th …

Prospects for a new global left

Western post-Marxists—living in countries where the absolute or relative size of the manufacturing workforce has shrunk dramatically in the last generation—lazily ruminate on whether or not ‘proletarian agency’ is now obsolete, obliging us to think in …

Tactics and the port shutdown

IN THE aftermath of the West Coast Port Shutdown on December 12, a debate over tactics has emerged in the Occupy movement. The discussion centers on the role of port workers and Occupy activists' relationship to them.

"Why Marx Was Right": lively challenge to 10 myths

While appreciating the work of Karl Marx, it is often that one encounters difficulties in sharing your views with others. We often try to explain and relate, only to find we must first defend.

At Occupy Frankfurt, Calm Anarchy Has Staying Power

The Frankfurt version of the Occupy Wall Street movement has many of the trappings of the New York City original, including a tattered cluster of tents, a location close to the beating heart of financial power and a diverse group of activists trying to come up with a unifyin …

Obama's re-election: A 50-50 proposition?

A new Associated Press-GfK poll says a majority of adults believe that President Obama does not deserve a second term, and are evenly divided on whether he will in fact win re-election next year.

Thousands gather at UN for voting rights » peoplesworld

They came in the thousands to let the forces of reaction know that their voting rights - rights that were fought and died for - will not be taken away. The March started from the Koch brothers' offices and headed to the United Nations where the rally took place.

The only truly realistic solution now is to break with the existing system

Will Europe be allowed to sink hopelessly deeper into the crisis and into recession?

Organizing for the port shutdown

THE OCCUPY movement is trying to strong-arm longshore workers and truck drivers into shutting down West Coast ports December 12--or so say critics of the action. They're wrong. Those organizing for action on the docks are neither the outside agitators described by employer …

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