Petrino DiLeo
Taking NYC workers for a ride
Another round of transit fare increases is hitting New Yorkers, as the MTA tries to make riders pay for its mistakes.
Caught rigging the game
A scandal over a British bank's manipulation of a key interest rate has shed light on the bald-faced lies and self-dealing ways of the world's biggest banks.
Continuing the antiwar fight
The United National Antiwar Coalition brought together more than 500 activists to organize against war at home and abroad.
The $16 trillion bailout
While Washington debates how deep budget cuts should go, the banks are still pocketing huge amounts of taxpayer cash.
Petrino DiLeo and Alan Maass
What's causing the market mayhem?
Panic has returned to international stock markets because of the fears of new financial crises--and the threat of a slump back into recession.
Cashing in on the charters
A new for-profit investment fund aimed at building charter schools marks an ominous new step for the school privatization movement.
Ralph Bean and Petrino DiLeo
A cry of resistance against Cuomo's cuts
As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed through his austerity budget, students and workers surged into the Capitol to protest.
Seven deadly lies about public-sector workers
SocialistWorker.org looks at seven myths about public-sector compensation and government deficits--and provides the facts to counter them.
The cutback commission
The co-chairs of Barack Obama's bipartisan commission on deficit reduction have a plan to carve up the federal government's budget--at your expense.
Petrino DiLeo and Evan Giller
Fight against bigotry continues in NYC
Activists in New York are continuing the fight against Islamophobia on the heels of a successful action against bigotry on September 11.
Letting Wall Street off the hook
At a time when the public holds Wall Street in contempt, the Democratic Congress managed to pass a law that caters to the banksters.
A "get out of jail free" card for Wall Street
It's clear that Wall Street and its army of lobbyists won the battle to keep financial reform legislation from making any real changes at the big banks.
Inside the Goldman Sachs scam
The world is getting a clearer view of the operations of a giant bank aptly described as a "giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity."
The hedge fund parasites
While workers were reeling from the Great Recession, the top 25 hedge fund managers in the U.S. earned an incredible $25.3 billion in one year.
The banksters bet on bankruptcy
Greece stands on the edge of financial collapse--and questions are emerging about how large banks made the crisis worse, and then profited off it.
The banksters plot their next robbery
Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms are looking forward to a bonus orgy for executives this year--supposedly for a job well done.
The other real estate bubble
The crisis in commercial real estate is getting attention in Congress--but property developers are exactly the people who don't deserve help.
How the Wall Street bankers bought Congress
Wall Street is reviled throughout the country for wrecking the economy--but it's still getting its way on legislation in Congress.
The stress test charade
The Obama administration announced the results of its "stress tests" of big banks--but there were plenty of problems with the triumphant conclusions.
Will Obama's housing plan provide relief?
The administration's $275 billion program to deal with foreclosures is a departure from the do-nothing Bush approach--but it falls short of what's needed.