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Socialist Action Newspaper July 1998 – December 2006 Below are some selected articles that appeared in Socialist Action newspaper from July 1998 up to December 2006. December 2006 Issue: Iraq Descends Into Chaos as Sectarian Killings Multiply German Book Reveals New Evidence in Mumia's Case Victory at Smithfield Packing Alto a la represión del gobierno federal en Oaxaca Stop Mexican Government Repression in Oaxaca! [PTS & LUS Statement] What Can Labor Expect From the Democrats' Victory? Morales Compromises With Right Wing in Bolivia Univ. of Wiscoinsin Students Stand Up for Abortion Rights Northland College Students Fight Campus Worker Layoffs The Iraq Quagmire and the 2006 Elections What's in Your Burger? Canadian Peace Alliance Sets March 17 Actions Quebec NDP Convention Hears 'Leftist' Jack Layton Stephane Dion, the Chameleon With a Past November 2006 Issue: From the Barricades of Oaxaca: Why We Fight! Lynne Stewart: 'The Support of the People is What Sustained Me' Attorney Lynne Stewart Sentenced to 28 Months Mass March in Oaxaca After Attack by Mexican Cops People of Oaxaca Resist Attack by Mexican Federal Police Oaxaca: Media for the People The Secret Billion $ Plot to Destroy the Socialist & Labor Movements Obituary for Caroline Lund A Shift to the Left in Latin American Elections Protest the Harassment of Russell Maroon Shoats 'U.S. vs. John Lennon' - Songs for the Revolution Gillo Pontecorvo: An Appreciation Israel Escalates Brutal War on Civilians in Gaza Rescind Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act Protesting Canada's Imperialist War OCAP Activists Sue Cops - And Win! Israeli Apartheid Targeted by Toronto Conference October 2006 Issue: U.S. Anti-war Sentiment Grows as Resistance in Iraq Mounts Workers' Last Ground - A Labor Day Sum-up Seguridad Nacional' Arrebatan a 11 Jornaleros Hugo Chavez at the United Nations Palestinian Conflict Reaches Deadly Levels U.S. Soldiers: Shorn, Shipped Out, Shot At, Shunned Protesters in Oaxaca Stand Firm Against Authorities Mackler Campaign Supports Defense of Lynne Stewart SA's Senate Campain in CA Wins New Support Kevin Cooper Granted Hearings on Appeals Homeland Security Operates Sting on Migrant Workers Bolivian Regime Goes Into Crisis Over Mine Struggle Battle in Courts Over Execution by Lethal Injection Socialist Senatorial Candidates in California Debate September 2006 Issue: The History of Imperialist Aggression in Lebanon News From the Jeff Mackler for U.S. Senate Campaign Film Review: Who Stole the Electric Car? Mexican Revolutionary Socialists Reject Electoral Fraud Iraqi Shiits Clash With U.S. Led Occupation Israeli & U.S. Set Back in Brutal Attack on Lebanon A Visit to Lori Berenson in Peru ICE Steps Up Immigrant Raids Hundreds Meet to Launch New Immigrant Rights Alliance Gaza: Israel's Shooting Gallery Behind Mexico's Post-Electoral Crisis U.S. Authorizes "Transition Plan" for Cuba Bush Spy Program - Down But Not Out Drug Profiteers & Government Doom AIDS Victims NDP Calls for Canadian Troops Out of Afghanistan August 2006 Issue: New Orleans: One Year After Hurricane Katrina Review of the Da Vinci Code Los socialistas revolucionarios ante el fraude electoral The Life of the Party: Barry Sheppard, the SWP & the 1960s The Carnage in Lebanon Caused by Israel Mexican Revolutionary Socialists Denounce Electoral Fraud How Cuba Survived Peak Oil A Death Foretold: Boston's Big Dig Claims a Life U.S. Goes Deeper into the Middle East Mine Field Canadian Military Fattens While NDP Leaders Fiddle Global Warming - We Are Running Out of Time July 2006 Issue: Israel Launches Campaign to Crush the Palestinians Iraq: An Unending Disaster Innocents on the 'Road to Guantanamo' British Socialists Hold Conference on Latin America Government Recommends a 30 Year Sentence for Lynne Stewart Bolivia: The Cockpit of the Latin American Radicalization Guantanamo: The Killing Field of Human Rights Maoists Join Nepal Government An Interview With Mumia Abu-Jamal Entravista con Mumia Abu-Jamal YSA Trip to El Paso and Juarez Viaje a El Paso y Juarez Review of "An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning" June 2006 Issue: Two Views on Bolivia: A Debate Theft at the Pump Mumia: One Legal Step Away From Legal Execution or a New Trial Haditha Massacre Stirs Outrage Over U.S. Role in Iraq Mass Mobilization in Nepal Forces King to Yield George Breitman: An Incisive View of Malcolm X & Revolutionary Politics Clashes by Rival Militias Bring Palestine to the Brink of Civil War Review of "Choose Your Poison" Camp Class Struggle 2006 Review of "People's History of Science" A Chicana Activist Speaks About Immigrant Rights The Basic Contradiction in U.S. Immigration Policy Congress Debates 'Reform' Bill on Immigrant Rights Palestinian Politics in the Melting Pot Bush Orders Spy Agency to Wiretap the U.S. May 2006 Issue: Walkout by Immigrant Workers Rocks Nation on May Day Chaos continues in Iraq under the aegis of the U.S. occupation Huge April 29 mobilization demands: ‘End the Iraq War now!’ Jail and fines for N.Y. transit strike May 20: Hands off Cuba and Venezuela! Northern Lights: News and Views from SA Canada Paro de trabajadores inmigrantes sacude a la nación el 1o. de mayo Pressures on the Palestinian territories grow intolerable Socialist Elected to Douglas County Board Solidarity actions in Mexico Still no contract for TWU Local 100 Todos somos Zorro! Veterans rally in Duluth Washington D.C. rally highlights Black farmers’ struggle in America Work in factories, fields, ports at a stand-still Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela deal blow to U.S. imperialism April 2006 Issue: Why Nuclear Power is Not the Answer Israel & Its Alllies Act to Humiliate Palestinian Movement French Workers & Students Protest Labor Law Mass Upsurge of Immigrant Workers UAW Helps Accelerate Attrition at GM U.S. Occupation Stirs the Fire of Civil War in Iraq La Victoria Electoral de Morales en Bolivia March 2006 Issue: Black People Pushed Out of New Orleans French Socialists Debate Elections Hamas Victory Reflects Rise of Mideast Anti-Imperialism Report on Rocky Mountain Socialist Conference Speaking Truth to Marable Review of the Movie 'Munich' Review of the Documentary 'Why We Fight' Social Security Privatization Still in Bush's Budget CA Officials Put Morales Execution on Hold Trenton Antiwar Teach-In: 'A Good First Step' CT Organizing for March 18 Protest Sectarian Violence in Iraq Fanned by U.S. Occupation What the U.S. Rulers Have to Fear in Bolivia Bush to America: I Spy New California Anti-War Coalition Formed February 2006 Issue: Bolivia After the Election of Morales NYC Transit Workers Reject Raw Contract Deal Tehran Bus Strike Marks Revival of Iranian Labor Movement The Fatal Eggs No Blood for Coal! January 2006 Issue: Pro-Imperialist Right Suffers Defeat in Bolivian Elections The Murder of Stanley Tookie Williams December 2005 Issue: Congress Debates 'Redeployment' of U.S. Military Forces in Iraq Disaster in Iraq Reflects the Breakdown of U.S. Capitalism Montreal Summit: Bush Feels the Heat Major Court Victory for Mumia Abu-Jamal Intelligent Design: a Renewed Attack on Science The Real Deal on the 'New Deal' A Look Back at Bob Dylan Poor & Immigrant Youth Riot in France Down With King Coal! Drawing the Line in 'North Country' November 2005 Issue: War Escalates Despite Iraqi Vote on Constitution UAW Defeat at General Motors: The Class Struggle Road Ahead AMFA Stands Up Against Concessions at Northwest Airlines The Struggle Continues for Same Sex Marriage 2005 Midwest Socialist Conference New Flare-Up in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, as Palestinian Forces Feud Capitalism is in Hot Water Last Minute Battle to Stop Tookie Williams' Execution October 2005 Issue: Hurricane Katrina: A Disaster in the Making for Decades Corporate Piracy in Iraq Fosters Chaos of Warring Groups Review of "The Constant Gardener" Canada Holds Muslims in Detention U.S. Majority Demands Troops Out Now! Anti-Cuba Terrorist Posada Granted Shelter Pat Robertson: Selling Salvation One Assassination at a Time David Weiss: Long-time Trotskyist The Legacy of Pierre Broue Katrina & Rita: Profits Before People Who Will Rebuild the Gulf States? Israel Resumes its War on Palestinians in Gaza Zapatistas Turn to a National Mass Campaign September 2005 Issue: Another Hiroshima Gulf Coast Disaster: A Result of Capitalist Greed Billions for New Orleans, Not a Penny for War! The War at Home U.S. Entangled in its Own Web in Iraq All Out for the September 24 Antiwar Rally! Statement by the Emergency Committee for a United Demo on S24 Immigrant Workers and the AFL-CIO Split World Youth Festival Offered Look @ Venezuelan Radicalization Occupation of Haiti Wields Deadly Force as Opposition Grows Belated Decision for the Cuban 5 Removal of Zionist Settlers from Gaza - Theater in the Sands --------------------------------------------------------- August 2005: Bush Talks of Troop Cuts as Iraq Attacks Escalate AFL-CIO Golden Anniversary Marked by New Split 'Cuba! Bolivia! Venezuela!' Sets Theme for CT Conf. How to be Effective in Abortion Clinic Defense New York Transit Workers Sue Against Discrimination Why We Need a New Environmental Movement British Cops on Rampage After Train Bombings A Balance Sheet of Bolivia's 'Rehearsal for a Revolution' --------------------------------------------------------- July 2005: Bolivian Crisis Ends in Uneasy Truce The Push to Privatize Hong Kong Occupation of Iraq Leading U.S. Forces Into a Morass Cuban Journalist Sees Permanent Revolution in Latin America Posada Carriles Gets Postponement of Bail Hearing A Call 4 a United Anti-War Movement & Sept. 24 Protest The Politics of Gun Control AFL-CIO Convention Must Confront a Possible Split Jobs & Health Care To Be Slashed in the Auto Industry The Truth About Global Warming Immigrants & Their Supporters Protest Against Bigotry in CT In Defense of Lori Berenson Lynne Stewart Speaks in CT Mumia Abu-Jamal Wins and Loses in the Courts Canadian Labour Congress Convention Report A Militant Canadian Union & Its Leader The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz Interview With Political Muralist Mike Alewitz --------------------------------------------------------- June 2005: Strategy & Tactics in the Fight Against the Iraq War The United Airlines Pension Default Iraqi Resistance Strives to Heal Sectarian Divisions Posada Carriles Affair Unmasks U.S. 'War Against Terrorism' Social Radicalization Deepens in Venezuela French Voters Reject EU Constitution Rally Protests Terror Against Haitians in Dominica Republic NYC Forum Reports on 'Haiti After Aristide' Rebellion Shakes Post-Stalinist Order in Central Asia A Top Banana Split in the AFL-CIO Should Women Be Assigned to Combat Duty? SF Bay Area Welcomes Lynne Stewart Mass Mobilizations Convulse Bolivia Northern Lights: News & Views From SA/Canada Review of Trotsky's "Literature & Revolution" OCAP Says 'Raise the Rates!' --------------------------------------------------------- May 2005: Counter-Recruitment Actions Nationwide Marla Rusicka, Human Rights Activist Iraqi Opposition Groups Strive for Broader Unity China-Japan Dispute Heats Up Mass Protests in Ecuador Force President to Flee Mexican Protests Halt 'Preemptive Electoral Fraud' Malcolm's Advice to Young People: 'Think for Yourself' Westchester Bus Strike Ends in Mediocre Deal Women in the Media In Memory of Chicano Leader Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzalez Quebec Students Win Funding Battle Scandal Plagues Liberals in Canada Oil Uber Alles Down on the 'Socially Responsible' Farm 1905 Russian Revolution Review of "Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom"----------------------------------------- April 2005: Worldwide Protests Against the War in Iraq No End to Carnage in Iraq A New Civil War in Lebanon? Dim Prospects 4 a Compromise in Palestine Bolivia: Social Polarization Deepens Sweatshop Workers Force Agreement in Haiti Cuba: A Revolution in Motion Celia Hart - Socialism: The Only "Better World" AFL-CIO Tops Stand Pat at Las Vegas Meeting Which Way Forward for the GLBT Rights Movement? A Few Words in Appreciation for Hunter Thompson Quebec Students on Strike! The Death of (Liberal) Environmentalism --------------------------------------------------------- March 2005: Threat Rises of New Middle East War Frightened Jurors Convict Lynne Stewart Iraqi Resistance Faces Political Isolation The Debate in the AFL-CIO Israel Puts 'Peace Process' on Hold U.S. Increases Pressure as Chavez Declares 4 Socialism The Bush Agenda: No Aid for Medicaid Battle Sharpens Over Land in Brazil's Amazon Region 'Terrorism' at Wal-Mart News & Views From SA/Canada Catholic University Tries to Block Vagina Monologues In Memory of Ossie Davis In Memory of Arthur Miller Youth 4 Socialist Action's First Seven Years Global Warming: A Time Bomb for the Earth February 2005: Iraq Resistance Set Back by U.S. 'Democracy' Con Game Bush Launches Assault on Social Security Court Overturns Conviction of Death Row Inmate Kenny Richey New Evidence in the Case of Kevin Cooper Class Confrontation Sharpens in Venezuela Bolivia Re-Ignites Beacon for Latin American Struggle Protests Force Putin to Halt Some Cutbacks in Benefits Palestinian Voting Points to More Resistance and Debate PSAC Job Action Interrupted Update on the Struggle at the Toronto Metropolitan Hotel Right Wing Assaults Women's Rights Lockheed, King of Warfare Loaded Language in the Media Dust Bowl Blues Review of William Kunstler's "The Emerging Police State" Sonoma High Schoolers Hold Anti-War Walk Out Review of "Hotel Rwanda" Aceh: Hit by Tsunami & Indonesian Military Bush's 'State of the Union' Rings Alarm Bells Around the World --------------------------------------------------------- January 2005: Tsunami disaster magnified by poverty & imperialism Iraq elections offer no road out of quagmire for U.S. rulers Hot enough for you? Elections reveal polarization among Palestinians Results of Ukrainian elections rerun - Some things won't change Black poet harassed for travel to Cuba What next for the Democrats? The decline of the dollar Science vs. Creationism Split in the AFL-CIO? Canadian Supreme Court blesses same sex-marriage PSAC Union Officials Abandon Strike U.S. socialist reports on Venezuela conference Democrats & Republicans attack women's rights Two women speak for many (Sonia Sanchez & Sarah Jones) December 2004: Dim prospects for new leadership of the Palestinian Authority Decisive test nears for both the Iraqi resistance & the U.S. Ukrainian Elections Send Masses Into the Streets Was the vote for Bush a vote for war? Condoleeza Rice: New ruling-class mouthpiece More repression at home Socialist wins mayor’s race in Brazil The twin party shell game: Bush trumps look-alike Kerry Paul Martin takes his doctrine for test drive State bungles ‘evidence’ in Kevin Cooper case OCAP eyes ex-cop shop for squat Report on Ontario NDP convention Review of the Film "Motorcycle Diaries" Review of the Musical "Hooray for What!" --------------------------------------------------------- November 2004: U.S. Flu Vaccine Shortage Exposes Crisis in Health Care World Food Day 2004: The political Economy of Hunger New Workers’ Solidarity Coalition Founded in Toronto The Genius of Soul California Students Face Higher Fees Lynne Stewart Frame-Up Unravels The Lessons of the Million Worker March Labor Needs an Organized Left Wing Palestinian Leadership Debates Strategy for Post-Arafat Period As the World Burns . . . New Social Explosion in Bolivia Traditional Bourgeois Parties Defeated in Uruguay U.S. Assault on Falluja Spurs Iraqi Resistance Bush Claims ‘Mandate’ in 2004 Election Victory Michael Moore Apologizes for Mumia Remark National Task Force Established to Free Mumia Winnimem Wintu Fight Shasta Dam Expansion --------------------------------------------------------- October 2004: Vote Socialist in November! Mexico Gripped by Economic Stagnation Canada’s Racist Immigration Policy — Legacy & Reality Mohamed Majoub Remains in Detention Carnage in Gaza Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs at the UN U.S. Offensive in Iraq Provokes Rising Hostility San Francisco Hotel Workers on Strike Canadian Fight Back Solidarity Caucus Statement of Purpose New Canadian Health Deal is Flawed Bush vs. Kerry on the Environment Haiti’s Storm Damage Compounded by Poverty & Neo-Colonialism 2004 Conference of Mexican Trotskyists Critique of the Movement for Sustainability Support the Million Worker March! --------------------------------------------------------- September 2004: Vote Socialist: Leonard Peltier, Roger Calero & John Parker Democracy Uprising — from Boston to NYC Palestinian struggle needs worldwide solidarity The Farmer Labor Party of the 1930s 20th anniversary of an historic battle: the British miners strike Cuban journalist marks anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination U.S.-backed terrorists set free in Panama Hundreds die at Chechnya school: What is responsible? Canadian imperialists in Haiti The worst of times: A tale of two conventions Chavez’s election victory — a fresh wind or a dead end? Resistance rises against U.S. and Iraqi puppets 500,000 protest at Republican convention Global warming: A capitalist crime against humanity Commie Soccer! Corporate head games in The Manchurian Candidate Why We Need the NDP Socialist Caucus --------------------------------------------------------- August 2004: NYC Officials Seek to Ban Mass Rally at Republican Convention Palestinian Activist Abdel-Muhti Dies Palestinian resistance groups ripped by internal conflicts S.A. convention shows growth in youth members & leaders NAACP calls for new trial for Mumia Referendum gives dubious mandate to Bolivian regime Castro refutes Bush’s charges against Cuba Hugo Chavez defeats recall effort in Venezuela Greenspan’s Natural Gas John Kerry — A False Friend of Labor Workers in Europe to spend more hours on the job Civil Liberties Victory @ York University Iraqi Resistance Threatens U.S. Plans Toronto Hotel Workers Fight Back Activists Launch Workers' Solidarity Coalition in Canada --------------------------------------------------------- July 2004: U.S. inserts its stooges into new Iraq regime The demise of Ralph Nader and Green Party politics Ken Richey: 17 years on death row Michael Moore skewers Bush in ’Fahrenheit 9/11’ Pennsylvania seeks death penalty for Mumia DNA testing for Kevin Cooper Ronald Reagan: Capitalism’s man of the hour Israel Hammers Palestinians While Make a Few Concessions Transit Worker Crackdown Timed for Republican Convention? Transit worker targeted for Sikh religion Bob Mattingly — a life spent in the service of the working class Brazil’s workers sour on Lula Raise the Welfare Rates! Got Water? A Look @ Gov't. Housing Subsidy Cuts Canadian Voters Reject the Right --------------------------------------------------------- June 2004: Iraqi resistance forces U.S. military to retreat 2004 Cuba Conference - Defend the Cuban 5 Kerry won’t end the war - But independent political action can! N.Y. Palestinian activist freed from U.S. prison nightmare The railroad trial of Lynne Stewart $7 a Gallon? The ruin of Rafah: A new political disaster for Zionism Same-sex marriage: Massachusetts leads the way Cammerin Boyd: Shot down by S.F. police Supreme Court denies writ of certiorari for Mumia Torture was deliberate U.S. policy - Not just a few ‘bad apples’! --------------------------------------------------------- May 2004: Reproductive rights facing worst attacks since Roe v. Wade Interview with Batay Ouvriye —Sweatshop organizers in Haiti Growing challenges in Brazil to Lula’s pro-capitalist policies Social tensions heating up in Bolivia Voters in France reject right-wing parties Bio & Writing Sample of Paul Siegel One million rally for women’s lives Iraq revolt Shatters Political Pretense of U.S. Occupation Torture in Iraqi prisons: Standard U.S. procedure! Castro defends Cuba against heightened U.S. disruption John Kerry & the Politics of the Ruling Class --------------------------------------------------------- April 2004: U.S. Suffers Setbacks in Iraq Fall of Pro-War Gov't. in Spain Shakes Iraq Coalition Self-Determination for Haiti: U.S. & U.N. Out! Tension high in Venezuela as U.S. backs campaign to oust Chavez Women on Death Row Women Workers in Chinese Sweatshops What Does John Kerry Stand for Anyways? Report on the March 20 Anti-War Protests March for Abortion Rights! The shadow cast by Israel’s Assassination of Sheikh Yassin Rape in the U.S. Military Guatemala: A Political History --------------------------------------------------------- March 2004: New Evidence May Free Kevin Cooper Review of Serge's "The Case of Comrade Tulayev" Iraqis Blame U.S. 4 Death Toll in Bombings U.S. Out of Haiti Now! Background to Haiti's Occupation Same-Sex Marriage: a Major step forward for equality! Ralph Nader's Flawed Strategy Bitter Defeat 4 Grocery Workers Socialist Action's 20th Anniversary Page Report on SA's 20th Anniversary Rally Kevin Cooper's Greetings 2 the Rally A Look At Socialist Action's 20 Years February 2004: Bush’s new ‘bracero’ program: Temporary work, starvation wages Iowa Anti-War Activists Win Victory Against the FBI Sharon submits proposal to ‘re-deploy’ Zionist settlements Dominican Republic shaken by general strike Ecuador’s Gutierrez faces opposition History of Haiti Iraq Occupation Falters as Bush Lies Are Exposed The Real Record of John Kerry Bush Budget Offers More to Military, Less to Social Programs Kevin Cooper Wins Stay of Execution The Radical Teen Cheerleaders --------------------------------------------------------- January 2004: All Out for the March 20th Anti-Occupation Protests! What Next in Iraq? NYC Transit Worker Vote Sends Mixed Message Union Misleaders’ Strategy Undermines Grocery Strike Lula sacrifices the left for alliance with the bosses Tensions Remain High in Argentina Democrats hustle votes with racist "Southern strategy" Iraqi Resistance Continues After Saddam's Capture Mad Cow Exposes the Cattle Industry Dr. King's Struggle Continues --------------------------------------------------------- September 2003: The World War II Pope & Nazi Germany The Greatest Generation? Reflections of a WWII Veteran Lynne Stewart re-indicted on trumped-up terrorism charges 2004 Elections: Democrats & the Myth of Lesser Evilism Iraqi Resistance Grows Rage Still Boils in Bolivia After New Regime is Installed Bolivian Bourgeois Government Suspended in Mid-Air Lessons for Today from the Vietnam War Peace Movement Michael Moore Strikes Low Blow Against Mumia Stop the FTAA! --------------------------------------------------------- Selected Issues from 2002 to 1998: November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 May 2002 April 2002 February 2002 January 2002 December 2001 October 2001 September 2001 July 2001 June 2001 May 2001 April 2001 March 2001 October 2000 September 2000 August 2000 July 2000 June 2000 May 2000 April 2000 March 2000 February 2000 January 2000 December 1999 November 1999 October 1999 September 1999 August 1999 July 1999 June 1999 May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 July 1998 Human Needs, Not Profits!