Susan Webb

Susan Webb is a retired co-editor of People's World. She has written on a range of topics both international - the Iraq war, World Social Forums in Brazil and India, the Israel-Palestinian conflict and controversy over the U.S. role in Okinawa - and domestic - including the meaning of socialism for Americans, attacks on Planned Parenthood, the U.S. as top weapons merchant, and more.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Susan Webb

Peace

Republican voters jumping ship on Iraq occupation
March 31, 2006 By Susan Webb
With news from Iraq bleaker than ever, a new poll shows a large bipartisan majority of Americans want to begin pulling out U.S. troops, and strongly oppose permanent U.S. bases in Iraq. The University of Maryland...
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Peace

Peace groups to Congress: Open up debate on Iraq
March 17, 2006 By Susan Webb
National peace organizations are pressing Congress to open up debate on getting the U.S. out of Iraq. With Bush insisting on “staying the course” and “not believable any more,” Congress is “the only body left to...
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U.S.

S. Dakota passes anti-woman law: Anti-abortion bill hurts poor, part of wider attack on women
March 10, 2006 By Susan Webb
South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Mike Rounds set the stage for an epic women’s rights battle when he signed a state law March 6 making all abortions a crime, including in cases of rape, incest and situations...
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Labor

The World of Peggy Lipschutz: Women, workers, angels soul of her purposeful art
March 3, 2006 By Susan Webb
Peggy Lipschutz, 87, picked up a small brush and eyed an unfinished painting. She added a dab of color to the figure of an older woman sitting in thought, with an angel in the background.
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World

Golden mosque blast brings new Iraq crisis
March 3, 2006 By Susan Webb
The bombing of Iraq’s Askariya mosque, Feb. 22, shattered a 1,200-year-old shrine especially revered by Shiites. Its huge golden dome, now wrecked, dominated the landscape of Samarra, a predominantly Sunni city. Built 100 years ago, it...
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U.S.

Wave of voter outrage could swamp Republicans
February 24, 2006 By Susan Webb
Tim Burga of the Ohio AFL-CIO says “there’s a real mood for change” in his state. Noting the impact of deaths of Ohio soldiers in Iraq, the loss of manufacturing jobs and national and local corruption...
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Opinion

MovieREVIEW: Munich a Powerful moral thriller
February 17, 2006 By Susan Webb
Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” takes a shocking, emotionally fraught historical event — the 1972 kidnapping and killing of 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team by the shadowy Palestinian “Black September” group in Munich, Germany — as...
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World

Iraqi unions launch united struggle
January 27, 2006 By Susan Webb
Iraq’s labor movement has formed a united permanent coordinating committee to “make its positions known” to the Iraqi government, and to challenge the dictates of international financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
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