Luego de proclamar una y mil veces como el obispo de los pobres a su líder, presentado como un teólogo de la liberación tercermundista, recibir el respaldo de toda la izquierda latinoamericana y sus agencias noticiosas, hablar hasta el hartazgo de socialismo, reforma agraria y agitar el puño izquierdo crispado, el movimiento que llevó a la presidencia del Paraguay al obispo Fernando Lugo ha decidido convocar para dirigir las finanzas de su gobierno desde el Ministerio de Hacienda a un conocido personero del Fondo Monetario Internacional, el economista Dionisio Borda.

spies without borders

When everyone talks about stocks and consumption, what happens to social responsibility and public welfare? We suffer in a schizophrenia. The consumer in us opposes the worker in us. In the age of super-capitalism, businesses cannot act socially responsibly because they serve profit.

State interventions in the economy are unpopular and generally regarded as "against the system"-when the state interferes in profiteering. In the case of a crisis, the losses should be socialized.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Catonsville 9 and a tour of radical Baltimore of the 1960s--a two-hour bus trip unlie any you have experiemced.

The law invites the ruling class to 'put away' their adversaries under a corrupt and abominable civil process designed to silence original thinkers.

I need to preface this commentary and say that I have been a member of the Republican Party since the Eisenhower administration of the 1950's.

I need to say that because there will be quite a few folks pointing their fingers and tongues at me as a "Liberal" and that's just not true.

Have we condemned ourselves to never knowing who we are?

On May 1, every port on the West Coast of the United States was shut down to demand an end to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The historic May Day walkout by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is the first time ever that an American union has struck against a U.S. war. The union ranks defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them to go to work. They overcame the capitulations of the ILWU leadership, which didn't want the work stoppage in the first place, tried to water it down and cowered before the threats of legal action while waving the flag. The employers' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) declared the May 1 port shutdown an "illegal strike." But after all the huffing and puffing from the bosses' mouthpieces, the dock workers pointed the way to defeating the imperialist war by mobilizing working-class power. In the end, it was more than a work stoppage. The dock workers' May Day strike against the war was a first step, a show of what it will take to bring down the warmongers in Washington. Their "symbolic" action was felt all the way to Iraq, where dock workers in two ports stopped work in solidarity with the ILWU. But it was only a beginning. What is needed is not only industrial action but a political offensive against the Democrats and Republicans, the partner parties of American imperialism, to build a class-struggle workers party.

A copy of the Original Mothers Day Proclamation
by Julia Ward Howe -