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US Media Use Iran As a Proxy for America's Class War

Thursday, 25 June 2009 8:52 A GMT+01

The array of the class forces lined up behind the candidates is far more important than the electoral details. Mousavi's social base is primarily among the upper and middle class elements, professionals, people with a higher education and students.

Mass Layoffs Means Homes Lost

Thursday, 11 June 2009 8:52 A GMT+01

What started out as a racist, sexist ploy by bankers and lenders to lure poor and working people into usurious subprime loans has become an avalanche of foreclosures on homeowners with prime mortgage loans, mostly workers who have lost their jobs.

Obama, Big Bucks & A Night on the Town

Thursday, 4 June 2009 7:59 A GMT+01

The White House has refused to provide an estimate of the total amount spent on the Obamas? ?date,? but with the use of an Air Force plane and the small army of Secret Service agents it certainly ran into tens?if not hundreds?of thousands of dollars.

The Fundamental Division in America Isn't Race or Gender...It's Class

Friday, 29 May 2009 8:49 A GMT+01

The Democratic Party became the principal vehicle for peddling the politics of race and gender, recruiting a layer of black, female and Hispanic politicians who engage in populist demagogy that uses race and gender to deny underlying class tensions.

American Racism: Locking Up "Terrorists" for Life

Thursday, 28 May 2009 9:07 A GMT+01

The US was founded on the principle that "lesser" or "dangerous" peoples should be "detained" for the good of the nation - on reservations or in slavery. today it's rampant race hatred directed against Arabs and spilling over to all Muslims.

Economy & Recession: Recovery? What Recovery?

Wednesday, 13 May 2009 8:24 A GMT+01

If the working class were writing the headlines and broadcasting the network and cable news, there would be few words about impending recovery. Instead, the prime-time news would give the statistics on how this disaster is getting worse.

Capitalism Equals Exploitation [Ram It Home]

Monday, 11 May 2009 8:50 A GMT+01

This is the reality of a free-market system that plays havoc with people’s lives. I think the human race can do better. Capitalism is a system of exploitation that relies on the labor of millions creating surplus value to provide wealth for a few.

"Tent City" - America Sinks to Third-World Status

Friday, 8 May 2009 8:50 A GMT+01

The local paper describes it as "ground zero" for robbery, prostitution and intravenous drug abuse in Fresno. But spend an afternoon with the hundreds of homeless in this bleak, dusty strip of land under a freeway, and a different story emerges.

Obama Determined to Screw the Workers

Wednesday, 6 May 2009 8:50 A GMT+01

The wage cuts imposed on auto workers imposed by the Obama Regime demonstrate the class strategy that US capitalism is carrying out: to impose a reduction in the living standards of workers on a scale unprecedented since the Great Depression.

Where's Our Bailout?

Wednesday, 6 May 2009 8:50 A GMT+01

Millions of ordinary Americans today are asking simple and powerful questions. You hear it at lunch counters, at the bar, at the coffee shop, in factories, in offices, on job sites. Where's the people's bailout, President Obama?"

First Rule of Capitalism: Divide & Conquer

Monday, 4 May 2009 9:15 A GMT+01

The ruling class are in a minority. Those they oppress and exploit constitutes a huge majority that could easily overwhelm them. So the 'elite' instituted a system of divide and conquer among those they exploited. Thus they maintain class rule.

Wall Street Fat Cats Get the Cream Again

Wednesday, 29 April 2009 9:08 A GMT+01

The reports reveal that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, JPMorgan Investment Bank and Bank of America set aside in total more than $36 billion in the first three months of 2009 to pay their employees.

Our Capitalist Lords Are Scared: Will the Peasants Revolt?

Friday, 24 April 2009 8:27 A GMT+01

We can bring down this rotten system, this so-called free market. Even when anger takes the form of indiscriminate rioting as it often does in its early stages, political currents inevitably develop as people begin to question the system itself.

This One's for All the Liberals Who Sneered at Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Wednesday, 22 April 2009 9:04 P GMT+01

Barack Obama made the politically expedient decision to distance himself from Rev. Wright and allow Rev. Wright's thirty years of superb laboring in the vineyard to be reduced to the work of a charlatan. Obama sold his pastor down the river.

Screw the Banks! Bail Out Labor!

Wednesday, 22 April 2009 9:03 P GMT+01

The government should provide a tax credit to employers for health care, as well as increasing employees' paid time off - in the form of reduced hours, additional vacations, sick leave, and days off. This would rapidly inject money into the economy.

America in a Nutshell: Bloody Conquest, Open Racism, Misogyny, Elitism & Brutality

Wednesday, 22 April 2009 9:03 P GMT+01

Israel and the United States, which could be charged under international law with crimes against humanity for actions in Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan, have together boycotted the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Geneva.

Neoliberalism: Modern Serfdom

Saturday, 18 April 2009 8:31 A GMT+01

Neo-liberalism is the cause of this economic crisis, the economic ideology largely attributed to Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980s, supporting free trade, the free market, privatisation, limits on public spending and lower taxation.

Economy: The Rich Make The Poor Pay for the Crisis

Friday, 17 April 2009 8:50 A GMT+01

For decades, the global political and corporate elite have been attacking the poor. They have created economic policies that have turned the entire globe into a money-making haven for themselves and intensified the exploitation of the poor.

Why the Rich Love Obama's Capitalist Party

Wednesday, 15 April 2009 8:39 A GMT+01

The Obama Boys are ladling out huge sums to Wall Street while threatening auto companies with bankruptcy. The Oboys are straining to tamp down calls for limits on bankers' bonuses while forcing union autoworkers to take huge concessions.

Capitalism Screws the Workers [It Should Go without Saying]

Saturday, 11 April 2009 8:59 A GMT+01

While talk about signs of a possible economic recovery drove the stock market up for four weeks in a row, beginning March 10, it is clear that the recovery being talked about was a recovery of the bosses and bankers, not the workers.

Obama's Cabinet: Wealth, Power & Wall Street

Wednesday, 8 April 2009 8:23 A GMT+01

The case of Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council and Obama’s top economic adviser, highlights the politically incestuous character of relations between the Obama administration and the American financial elite.

Howard Zinn on Class in America [Clip]

Wednesday, 8 April 2009 8:22 A GMT+01

In the United States we are really brought up to think there's only one class. That is, the idea of class conflict, class struggle, I mean, that is foreign to American culture. We're brought up to think that we're part of one big happy family.

Just You Wait: Black America Will Rise up against Obama

Tuesday, 7 April 2009 8:13 A GMT+01

The data on the actual State of Black America roll in like clockwork, a graphic display of the fact that there has never been such a thing as a “post-racial society” in the US. It's something whites want to believe because they voted for Obama.

Auto Workers Denounce Obama's Attack on Them [Clip]

Saturday, 4 April 2009 8:42 A GMT+01

The auto workers were outraged at the conditions placed on loans to the automakers. These conditions mean that many workers will lose their jobs and those who remain in the plant will take drastic cuts in their living standards.

Capitalist Media Back Obama's Attack on Auto Workers

Thursday, 2 April 2009 8:26 A GMT+01

The news media has given its enthusiastic support to President Obama's insistence that auto workers accept the destruction of jobs, living standards and working conditions in order to return the US auto industry to profitability.

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