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

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Its a great time to be a Communist
June 24, 2005 By Susan Webb
CHICAGO — The Communist Party USA returns to its birthplace this week as 500 labor, peace, civil rights and community activists, and international guests converge here for the party’s 28th national convention, July 1-3.
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Iraqi labor leaders welcomed across U.S.
June 24, 2005 By Susan Webb
Six Iraqi union leaders touring the U.S. this week called for an end to the U.S. occupation and expressed hope that American workers would support their efforts to protect Iraqi workers’ rights and defeat privatization. U.S....
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Iraq: Bushs Watergate?
June 17, 2005 By Susan Webb
The “Downing Street Memo” could be the last straw, or the spark that lights a fire, for an American public fed up with the Iraq war
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Calls grow to close Gitmo jail, seek truth on Downing Street Memo
June 10, 2005 By Susan Webb
In the wake of charges by Amnesty International that U.S. detention centers at Guantanamo and elsewhere constitute “the gulag of our times,” one of the Senate’s leading Democrats, Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.), and former President Jimmy...
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Shocking reports reveal U.S. torture widespread
May 27, 2005 By Susan Webb
‘Architects of torture policy must be held accountable’ New reports of torture of detainees show the U.S. as a global enforcer gone wild.
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Victory for sailor who said no to war
May 20, 2005 By Susan Webb
In a significant victory for Iraq war resisters, a Navy judge decided not to send sailor Pablo Paredes to jail for refusing to board a ship bound for Iraq. click here for related article click here...
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Ownership society but who really owns it?
May 13, 2005 By Susan Webb
The New Deal of the 1930s can be seen as a response to the reality of socialism born in 1917, when the Russian Revolution thrust on the world’s action agenda the vision of a society based...
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Building for the future
May 13, 2005 By Susan Webb
Sunlight streams into the People’s Weekly World’s new editorial office in Chicago’s Unity Center as graphic designer Marguerite Wright lays out a page on her computer. In Los Angeles, PWW contributing writer Rosalio Muñoz taps out...
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