Articles by Lance Selfa

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How the 1 Percent Rules
Lance Selfa – Socialist Worker, 31 Oct 2011

The author of The Democrats: A Critical History explains how the 1 percent has rigged the supposedly democratic political system so they’re always the winners.

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The Monster behind a Media Empire
Lance Selfa – Socialist Worker, 25 Jul 2011

WHEN ONE of the most arrogant men in the world is forced to issue a full-page apology in national newspapers, you know that he feels he has little other choice. That must have been the calculation in the inner sanctum of News Corporation when billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch signed off on a full-page ad in several of his (and his competitors’) British newspapers.

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Chávez and the Arab Dictators
Lance Selfa – Socialist Worker, 23 May 2011

Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is respected as a left opponent of U.S. imperialism–but he is lending support to Middle East despots who are trying to suppress popular uprisings. When the revolution sweeping the Arab world struck Libya and Syria, the governments there chose to act in the same way that the Bahraini monarchy did against its internal opposition: Open fire on unarmed crowds, arrest large numbers of people and outlaw demonstrations.

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