Capitalism causes racism, it uses it to justify slavery and war, to legitimise military occupations and colonialism.

Capitalism seeks to create division in the working class, to turn us against each other and waste our energies fighting other workers when we should be uniting and fighting the system as whole.

Racism is a centuries old theory that is used to justify a global system of discrimination against ethnic minorities.

It stems from Britain’s role as a colonial power - seizing control of Africa and India and looting them of food, minerals and precious stones.   more »

“Regarding the economic imbalance in our country, I am reminded of the situation President Theodore Roosevelt faced in the early days of the 20th century.

"America was then, as now, drifting apart along class lines. The so-called robber barons were unapologetically raking in a huge percentage of the national wealth. The dispossessed workers at the bottom were threatening revolt.”

In his description of the deepening social divisions in America, Webb was stating facts that are well known throughout the media and political elite, but almost never referred to publicly or seriously analyzed outside radical left websites.

He used language, including the phrase “class lines,” that has been virtually banned from official bourgeois politics for many decades.

Right-wing pundits and politicians regularly denounce any explicit reference to the socioeconomic polarization of American society as “class warfare,” in effect declaring that the class contradictions in America are so severe that even to acknowledge their existence is impermissible.   more »

Bosses and neoliberal ideologues tell us modern capitalism has changed our lives and the way that we work.

According to them, the world of work has changed dramatically since the years of poverty, lack of control and constant work that characterised the lives of workers at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

But the world of work hasn't changed that much, as many workers could testify.

How many of us have had to put up with Human Resource Management? Workers have become used to "key performance indicators", "team working', "appraisals" and a whole battery of measures that go under the rubric of "flexibility" and "modernisation".   more »

Actor Sean Penn summed up the new energy -- and the new focus -- of the anti-war movement Saturday, when he turned George Bush's own words against the president.

Just hours after the president had again reasserted his false claim to authority to pursue a war that is not wanted by the American people or the Congress, Penn told anti-war demonstrators gathered in Washington that Bush would be wise to review the Constitution.

"In a democracy," the actor told the cheering crowd, which organizers said numbered in the hundreds of thousands, "we are the deciders."

Saturday's anti-war demostrations, which filled the streets of cities from San Francisco to Washington, marked a return to form for an anti-war movement that had trouble building momentum during the three years that followed Bush's decision to launch a preemptive war against a country that posed no serious threat to the United States or its allies.   more »

He sleeps well at night over a war that deeply disturbs most Americans.

He is baffled by the notion that secret prisons, the use of torture, and indefinitely detaining "enemy combatants" without charge could be immoral or unAmerican.

He appears happy-go-lucky about his legacy and has no qualms about pursuing the Iraq war, against complete opposition if need be.

He is friendly to reporters and well liked by them.

After toppling Saddam Hussein, he became bored and impatient with the Iraqis. He shows no trace of remorse for destroying their country.   more »