United States
20 January 2009
The fundamental test that Obama faces is not so much about the timescale or extent of his policy changes, but about the conflicting bases of his underlying support.
20 January 2009
Thousands of Americans have travelled to Washington DC this week to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama as the new US president.
13 January 2009
Barack Obama was elected on a wave of hope following eight years of the warmongering neoliberal George Bush.
13 January 2009
News of the shooting of Oscar Grant by Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) police in Oakland on New Year’s Day has made its way around the world.
13 January 2009
As US president-elect Barack Obama prepares for his inauguration next Tuesday the impact of the recession on the US grows more severe by the day.
19 December 2008
We have just occupied New School University.
15 December 2008
Workers who took over and occupied their Chicago factory have won a startling victory.
09 December 2008
Workers in the US are facing mounting attacks on their pay, jobs, pensions and services as the recession grows ever deeper.
09 December 2008
The US Congress and the White House seem set to finalise an emergency $15 billion short-term loan to keep the General Motors (GM), Chrysler and Ford car companies afloat.
02 December 2008
News that the US economy has been in recession for a year will come as little surprise to millions of Americans facing job losses and home repossession.
25 November 2008
US president-elect Barack Obama has put forward a "stimulus" package for the US economy that makes chancellor Alistair Darling’s pre-budget proposals taste like weak milky tea.
11 November 2008
The widespread exhilaration at Barack Obama’s victory will be tempered by fear that his administration will not make the radical changes that so many are demanding.
11 November 2008
Some of the names being touted for Barack Obama’s cabinet show the twin pressures faced by the new president. Many people will find little comfort in his selections.
11 November 2008
Jim Baldridge – Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Baltimore
‘I went with a busload of union members from Maryland to Richmond, Virginia, to support the Obama campaign.
11 November 2008
Millions of people around the globe celebrated last week as Barack Obama won the US presidential election, turfing George Bush’s hated regime out of the White House.
05 November 2008
Millions of people are celebrating across the world today after Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the United States – a momentous achievement in a country with a long history of entrenched and vicious racism.
04 November 2008
The people of the US were heading to the polls to vote for their new president as Socialist Worker went to press. All the early indications were that Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate, is set to sweep aside his Republican rival John McCain.
04 November 2008
American writer and activist Studs Terkel died last week, aged 96.
28 October 2008
The enormous enthusiasm that surrounds Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign is an expression of the desire of millions to see change.
21 October 2008
The events of the past month have brought the question of state intervention in markets into sharp focus. Since the rise of neoliberalism 30 years ago, belief in the rule of the free market has become absolute among our rulers.