Archive for June, 2008

YouTube - Social crisis in Detroit

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The World Socialist Web Site interviewed workers and professionals in Detroit about the worsening social conditions as gas prices and food prices soar through the roof. In this clip, our reporters spoke with Jada Browning a young mother of three who recently lost her job.

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Obama, Clinton and identity politics

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

According to the American media, the emergence of African-American man and a woman as leading presidential candidates represents a social advance for masses of people-despite the fact that Obama was carefully groomed by wealthy corporate interests, while Hillary Clinton owes her political prominence to her marriage to the former president.

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The political lessons of the American Axle strike

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

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American Axle workers began to return to work earlier this week, after the end of a three-month walkout in Michigan and New York. The struggle-one of the longest walkouts in the auto industry in decades-ended in a bitter defeat for the workers.

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