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

Every day were in Iraq, situation gets worse
November 19, 2004 By Susan Webb
In the wake of the U.S. assault on Fallujah, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, called for investigation of possible violations of international laws on treatment of civilians and war prisoners in...
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Peace

Fallujah has become like hell
November 12, 2004 By Susan Webb
As 10-15,000 U.S. troops, accompanied by warplanes, tanks, heavy machine guns and cannons, waged a massive assault on Fallujah, a reporter described one residential neighborhood as “a wasteland of shattered glass and rubble, with smoke filling...
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In three key states, labor takes stock
November 5, 2004 By Susan Webb
After a hard-fought battle, Minnesota voters gave their state to John Kerry, but they also reshaped the balance of power in the state Capitol by trouncing a score of Republican state legislators.
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VOTE Nov. 2! We have numbers, momentum
October 29, 2004 By Susan Webb
“We have the numbers, we have the momentum,” said New Mexico labor leader Danny Rivera. “It’s going to be about performance” — about who gets the voters to the polls.
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The battle for RURAL AMERICA
October 22, 2004 By Susan Webb
Barack Obama struck a chord with many when he challenged those who “slice-and-dice our country into red states and blue states.” At the Democratic Convention this summer, the Illinois candidate for Senate spoke eloquently of Americans’...
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Labor

Iron Range fired up
October 15, 2004 By Susan Webb
HIBBING, Minn. — The 2004 presidential election is “historically far more important than any other … in my lifetime,” Steelworkers District 11 Director David Foster told a get-out-the-vote training session in the heart of Minnesota’s Iron...
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U.S.

Native American Indians get out the vote rez-style
October 8, 2004 By Susan Webb
CASS LAKE, Minn. — Sitting in her tiny office at Leech Lake Tribal College here, Elaine Fleming ran through the get-out-the-vote (GOTV) activities she is helping to organize among the college’s students, faculty and staff.
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U.S.

From plains to shining sea The call is ‘Dump Bush!’
October 1, 2004 By Susan Webb
Heartland unionists put in long hours MOORHEAD, Minn. — Standing in a factory parking lot here on a sparkling September day, surrounded by fields of sugar beets, corn and soybeans that stretch as far as the...
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