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USA

Biden bans railroad strike

As railworkers in Britain face Tory threats to make their strikes ineffective by ‘minimum service’ laws, 115,000 US freight railworkers have just had their strike vote for decent working conditions ‘s Read more...

US: Midterms show need for an independent Workers' Party

The November 8 US midterm elections proved a shock to the commentators who predicted disaster for Biden and the Democrats. Read more...

Biden's visit to two pariah states

Joe Biden has ended his four day trip to the Middle East with little to show for it except a further soiled reputation as a champion of human rights. Read more...

US Supreme Court strikes heaviest blow in generations to women's rights

Finally, they have done it. On June 24, after fifty years of a limited constitutional right to abortion, American women were robbed of that right. Read more...

Amazon Staten Island – a victory for rank-and-file organizing

April 1, 2022, witnessed one of the most striking victories for US Labor in quite a time. Read more...

USA: The Leak – What It Means for Abortion Rights

The recent leak of a “first draft” of a majority opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), repealing the Roe v Wade judgment that legalized abortion rights throughout the United St Read more...

USA: Despite the Pandemic – The Working Class Awakens

Something is happening with the US working class despite the resurgence of the pandemic with the Omicron wave. They are awakening to militancy. Read more...

USA: A tale of two shootings

Massive controversy has followed the 19 November acquittal of rightwing vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse in the US. Read more...

Texas law triggers US-wide attack on abortion rights

Texas has become the testing ground for a new approach to the nearly 50 year-long battle over abortion rights in the United States. Read more...

US Imperialism in Perspective

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'Democratic Socialism' in the United States

First published in Fifth International 21.
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Joe Biden's Build Back Better hits the buffers

First published in Fifth International 22.
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USA: Camp Bliss – More Like Camp Hell

More than 4,300 teenaged children are presently interned in an “emergency shelter" at the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas. Read more...

Dirty talk: DSA congress clings to Democrats

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Marxism and Black Reparations

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USA: Andrew Brown Jr killing: Justice can only be won by mass action

On April 21, police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, shot Andrew Brown Jr in the back of the head. Read more...

George Floyd murder trial verdict: a first victory for mass action

USA: Police killings, this time it's Chicago

Late last month, a 13 year old boy named Adam Toledo was shot by Chicago police. Adam was a Latino. Immediately after the incident, Chicago police stated that there had been an “armed confrontation”. Read more...

USA: Daunte Wright’s murder shows police cannot be reformed

April 11, 2021 saw the murder at a traffic stop of Daunte Wright, aged 20, by police officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Police allege that Mr. Read more...

USA: The Roots of the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

IN the year since the murder of George Floyd, the harsh reality of the racism still experienced by African Americans, 150 years after the abolition of slavery and half a century since the civil rights Read more...

The covid healthcare crisis in the USA

Coronavirus spread uncontrolled across all fifty states, causing millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths. Read more...

USA: Support Bessemer workers - and imitate them

A labour organising drive in the town of Bessemer, Alabama, (population 26,680) has caught the attention of trade unionists and socialists worldwide. The reason? Read more...

USA: Biden promises to "build back better"

Most of the world’s political leaders are rejoicing over the replacement of Donald Trump by Joe Biden. Read more...

The return of the USA

“America is Back!” was the message of Joe Biden’s first major speech on foreign affairs. Read more...

Statement on Trump’s fascist provocation

The storming of the US Capitol by a mob of fascists, at the instigation of Donald Trump, was an abortive attempt by the cornered but still vicious President to coerce the Congress (and the Vice Presid Read more...

What can we expect from Bidenomics?

It's tempting to look at Joseph Robinette Biden’s 50 year career in politics, 48 of them on the national level in the Senate and as Vice President, and do a “hot take” on how he will govern and what h Read more...

US elections: Democrat President, Divided Congress

Joe Biden looks certain to be the next President of the USA but, despite a record turnout of some 160 million voters, this was no "blue tidal wave". Read more...

USA: Election Day Statement

Millions of US citizens vote today in an election which the whole world is watching. Almost 100 million have already voted, either in person or by post. Read more...

Police abolition: the transitional method

In this article, KD Tait examines the call to ‘abolish the police’ emerging from the Black Lives Matter movement, and makes the case for a transitional approach which rejects the utopian illusions Read more...

Crisis in the USA

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