Opportunists Adapt, Sectarians Abstain On the Monday before the World Trade Organization (WTO) conference opened in Seattle last November, a group of right-wing Republicans, Chamber of Commerce functionaries and bible-thumpers, advertising themselves as “Working...
NYPD: Murder Inc. Reprinted below is an 18 March statement by the IBT on the murder of Amadou Diallo: In the Albany County courtroom on Friday, 22 February, the four cops tried for the...
From Bloody Sunday to Good Friday The collapse of Northern Ireland’s “power-sharing” government in February, after only nine weeks in office, represented a major setback for the much-touted Irish “peace process.” It took years...
Barbarism in the New World Order The following is an edited version of a talk given by Tom Riley at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario on 12 June 1999. Following NATO’s victory in...
Proletarian Internationalism—Not Protectionism! John F. Kennedy’s celebrated early 1960s observation that “a rising tide lifts all boats” has been amply refuted by the bull market of the past decade, which has chiefly benefited yacht...
Tailgating Nader The following statement was distributed during the 2000 American election campaign. Since Bill Clinton’s arrival in the White House eight years ago, the gap between rich and poor has widened enormously, welfare...
‘No Greater Crime’ “There can be no greater crime than coalition with the bourgeoisie in a period of socialist revolution.” —Leon Trotsky, 15 July 1939 Events in Zimbabwe appear to be moving toward a...
‘A Diversion & An Obstacle’ In 1948, Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president from 1941 to 1945, ran for president on the Progressive Party slate. Wallace’s campaign posed many of the...
Global Capitalism & Class Struggle The recent wave of international protest against the institutions of global capitalism is a manifestation of growing dissatisfaction among broad layers of the world’s population with the operation of...
Moribund No More? The November 2000 issue of Workers Power announces a dramatic about-face on “the meaning and significance of the shift back to capitalism in Eastern Europe and the former USSR following the...