Our economist friend Doug Henwood pointed this out earlier today: Support for Obamacare has clustered in the low 40s, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation polls. According to a Wikipedia review, support for single-payer over the last 5 years has averaged 52% - or 58%, if you leave out the partisan ...

The following is a press release from the Durham/Lopez campaign of the Freedom Socialist Party: This year's college graduates are exiting academia with all the traditional pomp and circumstance. Roughly two thirds of them have taken out student loans to complete their education. For them, the pomp is being dragged back to earth by the circumstance of ...

June 26, 2012 - Socialist Party USA Presidential Candidate Stewart Alexander condemns the removal of the democratically elected President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo. Alexander describes the removal by Congressional impeachment as an illegitimate coup. He calls upon the Paraguayan Congress to restore President Lugo and condemns US President Barack Obama ...

Whenever I need a couple of laughs, I turn to the bumbling self-aggrandizing antics of the Pennsylvania legislature. However, in the past few months, the Penn State Board of Trustees has done the near-impossible; they have provided more laughs than the menagerie in Harrisburg. To call either the Legislators or the Trustees ...

        From frequent politicalcontext.org and Shared Sacrifice guest, the feisty and inimitable Kevin Zeese: The only path to shifting power from the concentrated wealth that controls both parties and both presidential candidates is to focus on building an independent movement to challenge both parties. Right now the electoral system is so rigged ...

The Supreme Court will almost certainly hand down its decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act this Thursday. I'm going to be out of town when that happens, camping with my daughters in Oklahoma. So let me get my prediction in now, which some of you already ...

I have been involved in a very deep and lengthy discussion with a friend, Kathleen Wells, who is sponsoring a petition to end mass incarceration in prisons around the country because of the hugely disproportionate impact they have on African Americans. Kathleen, an attorney and broadcast journalist for KCAA Radio in ...

Production might be natural. Obviously consumption is natural. Trading goods, working for a payoff, and some forms of competition might be natural. But none of that means capitalism is natural. Here's today's quote: Nature does not produce on the one side owners of money or commodities, and on the other men ...

The following press release was provided earlier this month by the Socialist Party USA: Voters in Colorado now have another choice when they select their candidate in the 2012 Presidential elections.  Socialist Party USA (SP-USA) Presidential candidate, Stewart Alexander, and Vice Presidential candidate, Alex Mendoza, have been qualified by the Colorado Board of ...

  The following is a press release from the Durham/Lopez campaign of the Freedom Socialist Party: The Obama presidential campaign has recently turned its full attention  to women voters and the fact that they are none too happy with the administration's waffling on reproductive rights and other issues. Hence the idea was hatched to do ...