Wed. July 30: Rally to Stop Healthcare Privatization

As the healthcare crisis deepens, people are searching for alternatives to a corporate-driven system that leaves nearly 50 million Americans uninsured. Not surprisingly, the healthcare industry's solution is even more privatization. GHI & HIP are two of the latest targets of this privatizing campaign. But what if the solution - or a partial solution - to this dilemma already exists?

On Wednesday July 30th at 4:30 pm at 25 Beaver Street, a coalition of healthcare rights groups will celebrate the 43rd Birthday of Medicare. Medicare, along with Social Security, is one of the most successful public programs in the history of the U.S. It is also another target for the ever-greedy healthcare industry to convert into a profit-making enterprise.read more »

July 17, 2008

Statement on Religious Freedom
by the Faith and Socialism Commission

After watching the candidates of the two capitalist parties involve themselves with religious leaders and subsequently turn their backs on them, it is important for us to make observations from a Socialist perspective concerning religious freedom.

The McCain-Hagee controversy should leave the electorate wondering why it is so important for religious leaders to be so self-involved as to have to endorse political candidates. In addition, it is alarming that John McCain would cater to Christian fundamentalists by seeking the backing of a dispensationalist preacher such as John Hagee, who is known for making intolerant comments about our gay, Jewish, and Muslim sisters and brothers. Such extremism should be condemned.read more »