USA: No to prison slavery
By Marcus Otono NASHVILLE, TN – In April of this year, inmates at the Lee Correctional Center in South Carolina […]
Labor Notes 2018: successes pose new challenges for union activists
By Jeremy Dewar, Lambeth Unison delegate (pc) and Marcus Otono, Workers Power USA. THREE THOUSAND trade unionists assembled in Chicago
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The danger of a global trade war
By Markus Lehner “Trade wars are good” – Donald Trump Though Donald Trump’s tweets often seem mere clowning, the decrees
USA: Our bodies – our choice
By Mekdela Ejigu THE limited legal abortion and women’s reproductive rights available in the United States exist in a permanent
Obituary: Erica Garner 1990-2017
ERICA GARNER, the Black Lives Matter activist and Bernie Sanders campaigner, has died after a heart attack, aged just 27.
USA: Hundreds of thousands march against sexism
HUNDREDS OF thousands took to the streets in cities across the US on January 20 and 21 to mark the
The rebirth of the Democratic Socialists of America
THE DEMOCRATIC socialists of America (DSA) grouping has witnessed astonishing growth over the past year, going from around 5,500 members
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The threat of a new Korean War
By Dave Stockton NORTH KOREA’S Hydrogen bomb test has underlined once again not only the capacity of Kim Jong-un’s regime
Migrants’ ‘American dreams’ turns into a nightmare
FOR 800,000 DREAMERS the morning of 5 September saw their American Dream turn into a nightmare. Donald Trump’s Attorney General,
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Donald Trump’s first 100 days
IN THE US, a president’s first 100 days in office is always a test of the change in direction, if
The resistance to Trump can create a new leadership
Donald Trump’s presidency has galvanised opposition. But turning resistance into victories will not be easy. Republicans control both houses of
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America First signals an intensification of US unilateralism
ANYONE WHO doubted that Donald Trump’s arrival as 45th president of the United States heralded a major change in both the country’s
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Climate scepticism captures the White House
WHEN PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump selects one of the most notorious climate sceptics, Scott Pruit, to head the U.S. Environmental Protection
Trump’s victory and how he can be stopped
ON 8 NOVEMBER Donald Trump rode a wave of anti-establishment anger to become the 45th president of the United States
Election 2016: The Reality Show of Politics in the USA
By Marcus Otono Karl Marx once said, when discussing the realities of politics and elections in the bourgeois state, that:
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Cop killings and killing cops in the USA
By Marcus Otono We have compared the police and vigilante terror against black people in the United States to a
US elections: cracks widening in the two party system
By Andy Yorke In this year’s US presidential race, a month is a long time. March saw the tensions in
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Sanders pledges to fight after Super Tuesday
Can Bernie Sanders do more than pave the way for Clinton? By Andy Yorke THE 2016 US Presidential election was
Review of “Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution”
The images of the Black Panthers – black berets and leather jackets, afros, guns, the pouncing panther – and their
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Do Black lives matter in the USA?
By Marcus Otono 6 August 2015 The slaughter of six Black women and three men by 21 year-old Dylann Roof