The People - Newspaper of the Socialist Labor Party of America
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- Editorials by Daniel De Leon
- Introductions to the Socialist Goal and Program
- Analysis of Capitalism
- Marxian Economics
- Class Division
- Wage Slavery
- Opposition to Fraudulent Goals and Strategies
- Reformism
- 'Liberalism' Versus SocialismMay 27, 1995
- Socialism, Welfare and Social SecurityAug 1996
- The Reformers Outreformed! -- June 5, 1910 De Leon EditorialFeb 10, 1996
- Socialism and Reform Don't Mix -- September 6, 1910 De Leon EditorialDec 23, 1995
- Why the SLP Dropped Reforms -- August 27, 1912 De Leon EditorialNov 25, 1995
- Reforms: Concealed Measures of Reaction (1947)Apr 6, 1991
- Workers' Daily Struggles - Revolution Versus ReformismSep 15, 1979
- 'Worker-Owned' Businesses
- Pro-Capitalist Unions
- Nationalization
- Statism (Soviet Union, etc.)
- Difference From Leninist Organizations
- Anarchism
- Reviews of the Literature
- History of the Labor Movement
- Pro-Capitalist "Unions" and "Leaders"
- Socialist Trade & Labor Alliance (ST&LA)
- Other -- files are still being sorted
- Idealist versus Materialist Conceptions of History
- Positions on Social Issues
- Nationalism or Internationalism
- Earth
- While Earth Burned -- Acid RainJun 4, 1988
- Socialism -- True Embodiment of the Environmental MovementMay 27, 1995
- Away With the Garbage of Capitalism!Jun 10, 1995
- Nuclear Waste Dumps Exchange Old Problems for NewJun 24, 1995
- Mohawk Land Endangered by GM Toxic DumpsAug 12, 1995
- Capitalism's Adverse Effect on the Persian Gulf EnvironmentAug 12, 1995
- Source of Air Pollution Gone, but Problems Still RemainSep 23, 1995
- A Sane Society Wouldn't Disregard Greenhouse WarningsOct 14, 1995
- Changing Weather Raises Fears of Global CataclysmJan 27, 1996
- Company 'Settles' Debt for Love Canal ScandalJan 27, 1996
- The Growing Fresh Water CrisisFeb 10, 1996
- Land-Use Policies Worsened Flood Damage in NorthwestFeb 10, 1996
- Timber Capitalists Reap a Bonanza, Destroy the EnvironmentMar 23, 1996
- Global Warming - Scientists Claim Funding Doesn't Color ConclusionsMay 1996
- Government Fails to Monitor Degradation of Water SupplyJan 1997
- Only Capitalists Have a Motive to PolluteFeb 1997
- General Electric Forced to Clean Up Hudson RiverFeb 2002
- Billboard Lobby Kills Highway BeautificationNov 30, 1991
- other -- files being sorted
- The Bombing at Oklahoma CityMay 13, 1995
- Mumia Abu-JamalSep 23, 1995
- Women's liberation -- a Socialist view (1973)May 12 and 19, 1973
- Overpopulation Theories Being Dredged Up AgainAug 15, 1987
- Socialist Reconstruction Needed To Avert Evils of Automation (1954)Jan 11, 1991
- Profit motive creates living hell for animalsAug 1996
- Industrial Disasters Are Not AccidentsJun 4, 1988
- Scientists Search for 'Criminal Element' in All the Wrong PlacesMar 25, 1995
- National Independence StrugglesFeb 12, 1977
- SLP Supports Puerto Rico's Right to Self DeterminationAug 12, 1995
- Klan's Latest Outrage -- The massacre of five anti-Klan demonstrators in Greensboro, North Carolina ...Nov 17, 1979
- Bringing Back the ButcherJul 9, 1977
- Patriot Act - Countering the Threat to LibertyJul-Aug 2004
- War on Drugs Victimizes System's Most VulnerableFeb 10, 1996
- Drug Traffic and Imperialism are Historically IntertwinedJan 1997
- AIDS Research Curtailed for Lack of ProfitSep 9, 1995
- Fashioning a Working-Class Response to TerrorismJun 10, 1995
- Sick-Building Syndrome - Fresh Air, Stench of ProfitsDec 9, 1995
- We Are All 'Lab Rats'May 1996
- Capitalist Development Still a Spreading DiseaseNov 1996
- Scam Artists Use Internet to Victimize the UnwaryJan 1997
- Free Time for Workers a Victim of CapitalismSep 1996
- Answers to Common Objections to Socialism
- Workers are qualified to run the economyJul 1996
- How do you respond to the argument that capitalists are entitled to profits as a reward for their risk-taking?Feb 9, 1991
- How do you respond to the argument that it's the capitalists' entrepreneurial skills which organize the means of production?May 4, 1991
- What will happen to small family businesses under socialism?May 18, 1991
- Don't capitalists have an incentive to make the working class richer, not poorer?Apr 20, 1991
- Common Objections to Socialism Answered
[Five articles; single-page format]
Oct 5, 1991
- Doesn't the decline of the Soviet Union prove that socialism is a failure?Oct 5, 1991
- How would a real socialist society prevent a new bureaucracy from taking over?Oct 5, 1991
- But isn't it human nature for some people to want to rule others and have more wealth than others? Isn't socialism against human nature?Oct 5, 1991
- Without the possibility of getting ahead of others and becoming wealthy, what's the incentive to produce under socialism?Oct 5, 1991
- Isn't socialism too idealistic and utopian? How are you going to build such a society?Oct 5, 1991
- Speculation about the Socialist Future
- Achieving the socialist reconstruction
- file sorting is in progress ...
Date of the last update in this subdirectory: May 2008.
Minor typographical corrections July 2013.