05.06.08
Articles from SW
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SocialistWorker.org’s Election 2008 coverage
DUMPING WRIGHT TO MOVE TO THE RIGHT
Barack Obama’s decision to ditch his former pastor is part of a broader strategy of tilting right to appeal to supposedly conservative white voters.
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/06/dumping-wright
HOW REVEREND WRIGHT WAS WRONGED
While the acquittal of Sean Bell’s police killers was greeted with pleas for calm, Jeremiah Wright was denounced from coast to coast as “racist” and “paranoid.”
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/02/reverend-wright-wronged
Plus, check SocialistWorker.org tomorrow for Lance Selfa’s election analysis of the results of today’s primaries.
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Other highlights from SocialistWorker.org
“WE LET WASHINGTON KNOW WE’RE STILL FIGHTING”
Supporters of immigrant rights celebrated May Day by taking to the streets for the third year in a row, in cities across the U.S.
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/05/we-let-washington-know
WEST COAST PORTS SHUT DOWN FOR MAY DAY
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/02/west-coast-ports-may-day
BAY AREA ICE RAIDS ON THE HEELS OF MAY DAY
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/05/bay-area-ice-raids
Column: Anthony Arnove
THE SCRAMBLE FOR THE POLES
A race for control of the planet’s two polar regions is unfolding, with consequences that could hasten capitalism’s destruction of the Earth.
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/02/scramble-for-the-poles
Column: Mark Steel
THE SPIRIT OF 1968
There was much more to the revolutionary year 1968 than the common appraisal today–that it was a frivolous episode involving a few hippies and students.
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/05/the-spirit-of-1968
NEOLIBERAL ROOTS OF HAITI’S FOOD CRISIS
An independent journalist explains how neoliberal policies demanded by the U.S. left Haiti especially vulnerable to the spike in food prices.
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/05/haiti-neoliberal-crisis
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