by John Reimann I had high hopes when I saw the headline: “A Wish for Labor Day: Visionary Union Leaders.” Well, considering the source – a building contractor named Richard Pieper writing […]
Labor Day, 2013
Hypocrisy of the Year Award
“The world has had enough war. One of the things we have learned over the years, regardless of the region of the world, is that wars can’t resolve differences.” Chuck Hagel, US […]
Prison Hunger Strike and Mass Incarceration in the US
In California the prisoner hunger strike goes on into its second month. They are striking to protest the psychological torture of extended solitary confinement. But lying behind that issue is the issue […]
Support California Prison Hunger Strikers!
By John Reimann Early this July, some 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike to protest the inhumane conditions in California prisons. Foremost amongst these conditions is solitary confinement, in which a […]
Stop Torture in California Prisons!
Nearly 30,000 prisoners in California prisons have gone on hunger strike to protest the use of psychological torture through solitary confinement. Now, the prison authorities have added physical torture to the psychological […]
Why Zimmerman was let off
Some socialists had thought the courts would find Zimmerman guilty because that would simplify things for the “one percent”, the capitalist class. The idea makes sense in one way. After all, consider […]
Racism and Growing Crisis of US Politics
by John Reimann Gerald Seib is the chief correspondent covering politics in Washington D.C. for the most important newspaper of Corporate America – the Wall St. Journal. That’s why when he writes, […]
“No Justice; No Peace”
Last night there was a large march in Oakland, CA, to protest the George Zimmerman verdict. Not only was it considerably larger than the previous one, but the people who were on […]
Battle of Gettysburg: History in the Making 150 years ago
by John Reimann “Residents cowered in cellars as artillery shells screamed overhead. The southern end of town became a no man’s land as Confederate snipers hidden in houses traded fire with Union […]
Bait and Switch: From Obama to the US Supreme Court
My wife and I were married by a gay friend. Her partner was from another country as is my wife. But in the case of our friend, her partner had come here […]