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Incomplete Thoughts: Mass Incarceration

Submitted by Kate Stacy on December 26, 2007 - 9:56am

A friend who knows a lot about how and why the criminal justice system works in the United States put it into context for a group of folks a few weeks ago. Paul says we assume that prison conditions are bad, the issue is the number of people who will be subjected to them. Mass incarceration has been the most thoroughly implemented social experiment of the modern American era, made more effective because there is no centralized plan. And there's no natural force to stop or contain it.

Voting Rights - Getting Them Back

Submitted by Kate Stacy on December 1, 2007 - 9:11am

I met a woman a few weeks ago who has been working on a voting-rights project in The Bronx for several years now. She said that 48 of 50 states strip felons of voting rights and that 5 million potential voters are legally denied that basic right.

Video: Red Square Revolt

As the Quebec Student Strike passes the 100 Day mark, a new English-language documentary has just been released on the "Red Square Revolt". The video below features a number of interviews with student...

posted 05/24/12

Why attack the most vulnerable here to pay for wars over there?

by Barri Boone, May 23, 2012

Cartoon by Charles Stone
"We must all share the pain!"
Mantra of most politicians.
"The sick person is a parasite of society."
Friedrich Nietzsche in "Twilight of the Idols, Morals for Doctors."
"The...

posted 05/22/12

Mexico: Populist candidate Lopez Obrador appeals to business

by Dan La Botz, May 22, 2012

Mexico’s voters face an increasingly murky choice in the rapidly approaching July 1 national election between three conservative, pro-business candidates and a populist candidate who until recently...

posted 05/22/12

North Texans Take On the Trans Pacific Partnership

by Ryan, May 21, 2012

From May 8 to May 18, over 600 corporate lobbyists and dozens of delegates from nine Pacific Rim states gathered in Addison, TX (just north of Dallas) to have another round of discussions regarding...

posted 05/21/12

Obituary for J. Quinn Brisben, 1934-2012

by Eric S, May 18, 2012

J. Quinn Brisben, the Chicago-based socialist who died in April 2012, was widely known for his Civil Rights and disability rights activism. Born in Enid, Oklahoma, Quinn discovered socialism as a...

posted 05/18/12

M15: A look toward the future

by Esther Vivas, May 17, 2012

Untimely and unexpected. That's what the emergence of this movement of collective outrage at the Spanish state was. If we had been told on M14 (May 14th, 2011) the next day thousands of people would...

posted 05/17/12

The Coup's Boots Riley Speaks at the IIRE

While on tour in Europe, musician Boots Riley made a stop at the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) in Amsterdam to give a talk on the politics of Occupy. Until 2011, Riley was...

posted 05/14/12

Statement on the Withdrawal of the California Millionaire’s Tax Initiative

by California Solidarity members

The termination of the campaign to put the California Millionaires’ Tax (MT) on the November ballot was a setback for the movement for progressive taxation and for more equal income distribution....

posted 05/8/12

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International Viewpoint is the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International. IV is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow.

05/20/12 14:43

What Choice in 2012?

The outcome of the November 2012 election is clear: It will be the most vicious and racist in modern U.S. history, and by far the most expensive of all time. Are critical issues at stake in this political year? Absolutely, yes — but not the questions we'll get to vote on. - IV448 - May 2012 / USA

05/20/12 14:39

Speech in Jaffna at joint opposition protest on 1 May 2012

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05/19/12 16:42

Six months after the formation of the Monti government, the popularity the professor-ministers had enjoyed through the discredit which had accompanied the end of the Berlusconi era has begun to wane, even if the horizon does not present any credible political alternative. - IV448 - May 2012 / Italy

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Undocumented and Unafraid in Atlanta

Chicago Anti-Evictions Campaign marches to demand moratorium on foreclosures

Seven arrested in Tennessee protest for worker rights

The Real News: Democracy and Hypocrisy in Libya

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