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Below is a sampling of articles that have recently appeared in our newspaper. ------------------------------------------------- January 2010 Issue: U.S. Brokers Sham Accord at Copenhagen Climate Talks http://www.socialistaction.org/frank12.htm Health ‘Reform’ Bill – A Bonanza for Insurance Corporations http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack72.htm Civilian Casualties Soar as U.S. Wages Terror War in Afghanistan http://www.socialistaction.org/schreiber7.htm Activists Try to Break the Israeli-Egyptian Siege of Gaza http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack73.htm Death Squads Unleashed in Honduras http://www.socialistaction.org/wadena4.htm Copenhagen is a Turning Point for the Movement http://www.socialistaction.org/conway1.htm Reformers Win Leadership of Two Teamster Locals http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt7.htm Chavez Calls for a Fifth International http://www.socialistaction.org/foley147.htm Two New Trotsky Biographies: Biased, Inaccurate, Superficial http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello45.htm U.S. Marines vs. Avatars http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith49.htm Hal Verb 1931-2009 http://www.socialistaction.org/schreiber8.htm Northern Lights http://www.socialistaction.org/nl8.htm ------------------------------------------------- December 2009 Issue: Obama Escalates the Afghan War http://www.socialistaction.org/foley145.htm U.S. Occupation of Iraq has Achieved Chaos & Ruin http://www.socialistaction.org/foley146.htm Antiwar Movement Protests Obama’s War Escalation http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler41.htm Lynne Stewart Jailed; Appeals Court Extends Sentence http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler42.htm Obama & Congress Softpedal Jobs Crisis While Bankrolling Big Corporations http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack71.htm Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Kevin Cooper’s Appeal http://www.socialistaction.org/doran15.htm UC Students & Workers Protest Fee Hikes and Layoffs http://www.socialistaction.org/simons2.htm International Solidarity With SME Needed Urgently http://www.socialistaction.org/editors20.htm Honduran Congress Rejects Zelaya Return http://www.socialistaction.org/wadena3.htm Glen Ford Speech at the Black is Back Rally http://www.socialistaction.org/ford1.htm Mobilizations Needed to Save Mumia! http://www.socialistaction.org/towne3.htm Climate Change is on Course for a ‘Worst-Case’ Disaster http://www.socialistaction.org/editors21.htm Bissell Workers Fight for Their Jobs http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt6.htm Northern Lights http://www.socialistaction.org/nl7.htm Socialist Action Candidate Gets Positive Response in Minneapolis http://www.socialistaction.org/perry1.htm ‘The Lacuna’ – Novel Gives Vivid Account of Trotsky in Exile http://www.socialistaction.org/sack8.htm The Bad News Bearers http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith48.htm ------------------------------------------------- November 2009 Issue: Taliban Expands War to Wider Region Despite U.S. Surge http://www.socialistaction.org/foley144.htm October Anti-War Rallies http://www.socialistaction.org/editors19.htm Oct. 17 Anti-War Protests Take Place in Over 50 Cities http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack17.htm Interview with Zoya of RAWA http://www.socialistaction.org/zoya1.htm Participants in Boston’s Oct. 17 Rally Speak Out http://www.socialistaction.org/misc2.htm Troy Labor Council Calls for March http://www.socialistaction.org/troy1.htm Honduran Mass Movement: ‘Nobody Here Surrenders!’ http://www.socialistaction.org/wadena2.htm Black is Back Protest on Nov. 7 http://www.socialistaction.org/wadena1.htm Mumia’s Life in Danger as Supreme Court Decides Spisak Case http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler40.htm 200,000 March on Washington for LGBT Rights http://www.socialistaction.org/rome3.htm Union-Busters Close Stella D’Oro Factory http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman33.htm Friedrich Engels Book Review http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello43.htm Community Out Mobilizes Hate Group in Minneapolis http://www.socialistaction.org/luinenburg2.htm Bipartisan Statements Embolden Anti-Abortion Forces http://www.socialistaction.org/marie4.htm No Close Encounters http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith47.htm Kinder, Gentler Capitalism? http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello44.htm UC Students Mobilize http://www.socialistaction.org/simons1.htm CCSU Students & Staff Rally Against Racism http://www.socialistaction.org/ccsu1.htm Northern Lights – News & Views from SA/Canada http://www.socialistaction.org/nl6.htm ------------------------------------------------- October 2009 Issue: Join the Oct. 17 Anti-War Protests http://www.socialistaction.org/reid1.htm Supporters of LGBT Rights March on Washington http://www.socialistaction.org/rome2.htm Red-Baiting Against SA & the Anti-War Movement http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler39.htm Canada’s Medicare System Provides Lessons for U.S. Debate http://www.socialistaction.org/weisleder45.htm U.S. Afghanistan Strategy Nears the End of the Road http://www.socialistaction.org/foley143.htm Rightist D.C. Mobilization Poses Grave Threat to Working People http://www.socialistaction.org/editors18.htm Stella D’Oro Workers Face October Shutdown http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman32.htm SK Hand Tool Workers Strike http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt5.htm Duluth Restaurant Workers Defeat Union-Busting Campaign http://www.socialistaction.org/ritscher18.htm Northern Lights http://www.socialistaction.org/nl5.htm Education We Can Believe In http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello42.htm Strangers vs. Prisoners http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith46.htm University of California Students Walk Out http://www.socialistaction.org/kilpatrick1.htm Stop Death Threats Against Militant Trade Unionists in Columbia http://www.socialistaction.org/litci1.htm ------------------------------------------------- September 2009 Issue: Casualties Mount in Iraq & Afghanistan http://www.socialistaction.org/foley142.htm Workers Employ Sit-Ins as Job Losses Mount Worldwide http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack69.htm Health-Care ‘Reform’ Schemes in Congress: Bailouts for the Insurance Industry http://www.socialistaction.org/coates1.htm Climate Change Intensifies as Fossil-Fuel Emissions Rise http://www.socialistaction.org/frank10.htm World Leaders Stall Endlessly in Tackling Climate Change http://www.socialistaction.org/frank11.htm Negative Externality http://www.socialistaction.org/onasch21.htm U.S. Supreme Court Takes Sides http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello40.htm Sen. Edward Kennedy and the Limits of Liberalism http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello41.htm A First for Toyota http://www.socialistaction.org/onasch22.htm The Real Deciders http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith45.htm NDP Brass Treads Water in Halifax http://www.socialistaction.org/nl4.htm ‘Skip,’ Nadra and the Philadelphia Grand Jury http://www.socialistaction.org/mumia13.htm ------------------------------------------------- August 2009 Issue: Pittsburg Antiwar Conference Demands “Out Now!” http://www.sociailstaction.org/lombardo1.htm Medical Aid Convoy Breaks Gaza Blockade http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack68.htm Israel Becoming a Pariah as Atrocities Come to Light http://www.socialistaction.org/foley140.htm Obama Orders ‘Softer’ Tactics in Anti-Immigrant Crackdown http://www.socialistaction.org/luinenburg1.htm Supreme Court Ruling on Firefighters Case Setback for Affirmative Action http://www.socialistaction.org/dempsey1.htm Prof. Gates and the “Teachable Moment” http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello39.htm Iraq Today: 5 Million Orphans http://www.socialistaction.org/zaineb1.htm The Rules of ‘Disengagement’ http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith44.htm Northern Lights http://www.socialistaction.org/nl3.htm Historic 1934 Minneapolis Strike Commemorated http://www.socialistaction.org/editors17.htm Mumia Commentar: Nada for Gaza http://www.socialistaction.org/mumia12.htm ------------------------------------------------- July 2009 Issue: Solidarity With the People of Iran! U.S. Hands Off Iran! http://www.socialistaction.org/statement5.htm Iranian Clericalist Regime Shaken by Mass Protests http://www.socialistaction.org/foley138.htm Obama Backed Agreement at GM Capped by Layoffs http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman29.htm Support the General Strike in Honduras! http://www.socialistaction.org/frickey6.htm Iraq War Intensifies as U.S. & Maliki Government Declare “Victory” http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler37.htm Supreme Court Rejects Review of Cuban Five Case http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler38.htm CT Forum Discusses Strategy in Abortion Rights Movement http://www.socialistaction.org/marie3.htm Labor Briefing http://www.socialistaction.org/laborbriefing1.htm Right Wing v. Judge Sotomayor http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello38.htm Sri Lankan Government Wages War of Annihilation Against Tamil Nationalism http://www.socialistaction.org/foley139.htm Supreme Court Rejects Kevin Cooper Appeal http://www.socialistaction.org/doran14.htm Father Gerard Jean-Juste: A Haitian Hero Dies http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman30.htm Northern Lights: News & Views From Canada http://www.socialistaction.org/nl2.htm Commentaries by Mumia Abu-Jamal http://www.socialistaction.org/mumia11.htm ------------------------------------------------- June 2009 Issue: Congress Votes $96 Billion More for Obama’s Wars http://www.socialistaction.org/editors16.htm White House Health-Care ‘Reforms’ Favor Drug & Insurance Companies http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack67.htm Auto Troika Says Goodbye to Thousands of Their Worker ‘Partners’ http://www.socialistaction.org/onasch20.htm Hartmarx Workers Approve Plant Sit-In http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt3.htm Do ‘Buy American’ Schemes Work to Protect U.S. Jobs? http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt4.htm California Court Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Ban http://www.socialistaction.org/rome1.htm The Mumia Exception http://www.socialistaction.org/oconnor1.htm Rally Demands Justice in Fong Lee Killing http://www.socialistaction.org/jones7.htm CT Students & Faculty Protest Speech by Lyndon LaRouche http://www.socialistaction.org/marie2.htm Articles on Sri Lanka http://www.socialistaction.org/misc1.htm Teach-In Demands: “Bail Out Working People – Not Banks!” http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler36.htm A 3-D Message for Peace http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith43.htm Fooling the People http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello37.htm Northern Lights: News & Views From Canada http://www.socialistaction.org/nl1.htm ------------------------------------------------- May 2009 Issue: Obama & Auto Bosses Slam Chrysler, GM Workers http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman26.htm On the Chrysler Contract http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman27.htm Employers Use Crisis to Get Union Concessions http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt2.htm Taliban Advance in Pakistan Creates Dilemma for U.S. http://www.socialistaction.org/foley137.htm Is the Economic Crisis Winding Down? http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack66.htm When is a Withdrawal Not a Withdrawal? http://www.socialistaction.org/foley135.htm Socialist Student Fired From Campus Journal for Political Activism http://www.socialistaction.org/marie1.htm Who is Weaker Than a Child? http://www.socialistaction.org/auciello36.htm Can King Coal Clean Up Its Act? http://www.socialistaction.org/onasch19.htm Obama’s First 100 Days http://www.socialistaction.org/allen1.htm Boycott Stella D’oro http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman28.htm Working Class Paris: The Musical http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith42.htm Report on the May Day Protests http://www.socialistaction.org/reporters1.htm Northern Lights May ‘09: News & Views From SA/Canada http://www.socialistaction.org/ca107.htm ------------------------------------------------- April 2009 Issue: Thousands Protest Obama’s Wars http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler34.htm A Strong, Spirited D.C. March http://www.socialistaction.org/leslie5.htm Democrats Play ‘Soft Cop’ on Immigration Reforms http://www.socialistaction.org/frickey5.htm Fund Workers’ Needs, Not Banks & Billionaires! http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack63.htm Outcry Over AIG Bailout: What’s the Solution? http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack64.htm Washington Subsidizes Toxic Assets Purchases http://www.socialistaction.org/pollack65.htm Socialist Action Convention Registers Important Gains http://www.socialistaction.org/freeman1.htm Evidence Mounts of Israeli Atrocities in Gaza Invasion http://www.socialistaction.org/foley136.htm Employee Free Choice Act – Pluses and Pitfalls http://www.socialistaction.org/bernt1.htm Angry Public Workers Protest New York City Cuts http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman25.htm New Ontario NDP Leader ‘Winks’ Left http://www.socialistaction.org/ca106.htm U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Mumia’s Appeal http://www.socialistaction.org/mackler35.htm Between Two World http://www.socialistaction.org/caldwell-smith41.htm Will the FMLN Bring Needed Change to El Salvador? http://www.socialistaction.org/lamas1.htm ------------------------------------------------- -For the issues of Socialist Action newspaper from March 2009 - January 2007 click here. -For the issues of Socialist Action newspaper from 2006-1998 click here. 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