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Chicago sheriff stops evictions

Bankers in Chicago are angry with Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.

A guide to the Wall Street meltdown

Many people are understandably frustrated when they try to make sense of the world financial crisis based on what they read in mainstream newspapers.

Mumia Abu Jamal: Fall of the House of Capital?

The below October 1 article was written by Mumia Abu Jamal, a political prisoner currently on death row in a US prison. Mumia is a radical African American journalist and activist who has been wrongfully imprisoned since 1981 over the shooting of a police officer. He writes weekly columns from death row. For information on his case, and to get involved in the campaign for his freedom, visit http://freemumia.com.

When the Feds go marching in: Behind the bailout

On the fateful evening of September 18, when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Bank Chair Ben Bernanke pulled together a closed-door meeting to discuss the rapidly unfolding crisis plaguing the financial system, congressional leaders feigned shock and horror at its severity.

United States: Their desperate gamble

Whether or not US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson’s rescue scheme works, one thing is already crystal clear: The capitalist system has failed spectacularly. The following editorial was published by the US Socialist Worker on September 25.

The Wall Street 'socialists' save the rich again

The Wall Street “socialists” are at it again — with another big-government takeover of privately owned firms, aimed at protecting the rich by extorting money from working people.

The Black Power era

The role of music in the early civil rights movements is fairly widely known.

Schwarzenegger's wage cuts condemned

Unionists protested on July 20 in San Francisco against the decision by Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut the wages of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of US$6.55 per hour, alleging he must do so because the state legislature has not passed a budget.

The marginalisation of women in the post-9/11 US

The Terror Dream: Fear & Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
By Susan Faludi
Scribe Melbourne, 2007
351 pages, $35

What does Obama have to fear?

There’s no way of saying this without sounding a bit pretentious, but I was in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. And the most instructive person I met may have been a frail old Black woman in a newsagent, who picked up a newspaper with a photo of Barack Obama on it, and thrust it under my nose.

United States: New dispute looms as actors' contracts expire

On June 30, the collective agreements covering actors in the US television industry expired.

United States: Cuban Five appeal dismissed, Posada exhibits artworks

On June 5 the Eleventh Circuit of Atlanta’s Court of Appeals upheld the federal convictions for conspiracy against the Cuban Five — five Cuban citizens held in US prisons since their arrest on September 12, 1998.