Fightback
calls for the nationalization of telecommunications under democratic
workers’ control, as the only solution to the problems of poor
management at Telus.
The recent terrorist attacks in London only confirm
the volatile position the world finds itself in at the beginning of the
21st century. Bush and Blair’s war on terror and the invasions of Iraq
and Afghanistan have done nothing but further destabilize the
situation. In the United States, the mood is finally turning against
the war. This is the editorial of the latest issue of the American Socialist Appeal.
Titanic sums of money - the taxes paid in mostly by the working class - have been spent by the Bush Administration primarily on two things: the continuing slaughter in Iraq and the further enrichment of the top 10 percent of Americans. Millions of working people in the United States continue to worry about whether or not they will have a job two months from now or even next week. And how does the ‘compassionate conservative’ in the White House soothe the nation’s anxiety? By handing out billions of dollars to the modern-day robber barons of Capital.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin's atypically frank condemnation of the treatment of U.S. prisoners around the world cause a storm of criticism. The bulk of the critics purposely skewed Durbin’s apt comparison, ignoring the widespread tactics used in the war on terror which without question include torture. The ugly truth is that prisons in Iraq are merely a reflection of the prison system here in the U.S.