Month: November 2008
What To Do With the Big Three
[by Bill Onasch]In the November issue of Socialist Action newspaper we wrote about a potential deal for General Motors to acquire Chrysler. That fell through because GM couldn’t put its hands on enough cash..It turned out their troubles were actually much deeper than previously acknowledged. Plunging sales, downgraded credit ratings, and tanking stock value, was … Continue reading What To Do With the Big Three
No Cuts in Philadelphia’s City Services!
No Cut Backs in City Services!Keep Our Libraries Open! The City administration is proposing major cut backs in city services; layoffs, the closing of pools and rec centers, the loss of essential fire services and the shutting down of 11 city library branches. The city is not only closing library branches, but will also cut … Continue reading No Cuts in Philadelphia’s City Services!
Round-Up on the Nov. 15 Anti-Prop 8 Protests Across the Country
Click here to view a round up of the protests in support of same-sex marriage that took place all across the U.S. on Saturday, November 15.
We Gotta Take the Power Back!
Scary October for the System’s Rulers and Victims
[by Andrew Pollack]The Great Depression of the 1930s is commonly said to have started with the stock market crash of Black Friday, October 24, 1929. Leaving aside the fact that the crash in fact had its roots in a decades-long crisis of the system, it’s ironic that this October has turned out to be an … Continue reading Scary October for the System’s Rulers and Victims
Obama’s Victory: A socialist perspective
[a Socialist Action editorial]Barack Obama, a Black man, has been elected President of the United States. Few, if any, thought his victory was even a remote possibility in racist America when capitalism’s two-party multi-billion dollar electoral charade began twenty-one months ago.When Obama’s win was projected early on as a certainty by television stations across the … Continue reading Obama’s Victory: A socialist perspective