DESPITE THEIR nonstop coverage, nearly all of the media accounts of the wildfires in Southern California missed the deeper causes of the catastrophe--years of destructive land development driven by ...

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Nancy MacLean tells the story of the Populist movement of the 1890s--when it briefly challenged the hold of white supremacy in the U.S. South. IT WAS an event without precedent in the South. On a few ...

THE NORTHERN Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Southeastern Montana lies on one of the richest coal deposits in North America. The Northern Cheyenne are a nation of a little over 4,000 people. The ...

NANCY WELCH looks at the causes of the health care crisis depicted in Michael Moore's Sicko. AS MICHAEL Moore's Sicko hits theaters, the simmering health care crisis appears headed for a boil. The ...

Since its national conference in January, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain, the country's largest revolutionary organization, has been shaken by the most severe crisis in its history, ...

THE TERM sectarianism is used so loosely that it may be as well to start by clarifying what it does not mean. It is sometimes asserted that it is sectarian to try to build your own organization in the ...

MIKE DAVIS is a leading left-wing voice and author of Ecology of Fear and the forthcoming Planet of Slums. He talked to Socialist Worker about the questions we should be asking about the Indian Ocean ...

At the time of the Socialist Party's greatest electoral success in 1912, the party was internally divided. Brian Erway explains the issues behind the growing left-right split in the SP--differences ...

KEITH ROSENTHAL reports on the case of an Iraqi American victim of John Ashcroft's "war on terror." WHILE SADDAM Hussein remains locked up at an undisclosed location ...

IN LATE May, the New York Times had an apology to make. After spilling barrels of ink echoing every lie and rumor that the Bush administration told about Saddam's Hussein's nonexistent "weapons of ...

"Learn, propagandize, organize" were the watchwords for the workers' newspaper that the Russian revolutionary Lenin was committed to publishing. PAUL D'AMATO explains. WHEN Lenin became a socialist in ...