Globalization has not brought the so-called interdependence, but an increase in dependency. Instead of wealth globalization, there is poverty wide spreading. Development has not become general, or been shared. To the contrary, the abysm between North and South is now so huge, that the unsustainability of the current economic order and the blindness of the people who try to justify continuing to enjoy opulence and waste, are evident.

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Bush and Cheney have in recent days flip-flopped on the their claims about an imagined link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

How the ultra right tries to get political advantage from the murders of Nicholas Berg, Paul M. Johnson and Kim Sun Il.

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The latest anti-Cuban regulations have done much to bring Cubans living in the US together. One issue more than any other has provoked their outrage: the definition of "family." New Bush administration regulations announced recently are cunningly designed to starve Cuba of vitally needed dollars and international support.

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To those who object and protest the bombing of civilians and other of the numerous atrocious acts of the Bush people, O'Reilly suggests you just "shut up" or you will be declared an "enemy of the state."

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The June 21st US Supreme Court ruling that HMOs are not responsible for medical malpractice even when their decisions and offerings for patient care result in negligent damages should come as no surprise.

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There is an amazing attack on John Kerry in Saturday’s (6/19) New York Times, authored by one of the Times’ newly appointed columnists recruited from the ultra-right fringe. David Brooks attacked Senator Kerry for saying the CIA funded and directed Varela Project to destabilize the Cuban government was "counterproductive."

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In the Information Technology world, the Free Software Foundation is the organization that struggles against the drive to convert knowledge itself into a capitalist commodity known as Intellectual Property. Today, the FSF and the Linux movement have given rise to an increasing number of politically active programmers, including the Progressive Programmers League.

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No one can trust what Bill O’Reilly says. Some television viewers who have seen him consider him to have been more believable at his previous job with another sensationalist program, Inside Edition – one of the very first tabloid "news" programs.

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The Bush administration is using former President Reagan’s death to boost Bush’s failing campaign. They gave Reagan full honors: with a federal day of mourning and an official state funeral. The TV was saturated with commentaries about how great a President Reagan was.

I first met author Ronald Radosh nearly 30 years ago at a convention of historians when he was supposedly on the left. It was a meeting I would come to regret. My dissertation was soon to be published as a book, and Radosh began denouncing it.

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"[F]oreign outsourcing of service jobs is good for the American economy" is the mantra of Bush administration officials Treasury Secretary John Snow and Council of Economic Advisers Gregory Mankiw, according to a recent report by Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF).

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The US, as a model competition state in Philip Cerny’s memorable phrase, does constitute an appropriate case for a thorough study of the neoliberal agenda enshrined after the deliberate disintegration of welfarism beginning in the 1970s.

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The enormity of the crimes of the capitalist system never cease to amaze me. Marx describes in Capital the cost in human lives of unregulated capitalism as it developed in Great Britain and elsewhere in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Another sub-title for this book could well be "a study in state monopoly capitalism." The previous book of the author focused on the Carlyle Group, the spectacularly well-heeled firm that includes a veritable rogues’ gallery of crooked politicians and businessmen.

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In Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents, labor historian Martin Halpern presents a series of insightful essays analyzing the modern labor movement’s relationship with both its left-wing and with Democratic administrations.

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The 40th president of the United States has passed away. His supporters claim he was the greatest president of the past century. They want to carve his head on Mt. Rushmore and put him on the ten-dollar bill – displacing the hapless non-presidential Alexander Hamilton. But the truth is Reagan was a horrible president.

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Marxists and other progressive continually fight for legislation to meet the many needs that we consider human rights: free education; universal health care; free or low-cost child care; affordable housing; unemployment insurance; adequate pensions for retirement; the outlawing of all forms of discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnic background, religion, gender, and sexual orientation; affordable access to culture and recreation.

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A recently released AFL-CIO report on the Bush administration’s record titled "Bush Watch" shows the White House occupant to be a dismal failure as well as decidedly anti-working-class. Not a big surprise, right? Let’s look at the record.

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One could laugh or cry about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s political victory in California, but how can those who take Marxist dialectical analysis seriously look at an event at which much of the world has laughed – even though for Californians the "Schwarzenegger administration" continues to be no laughing matter.