Youth have begun to rebel against these conditions on a grand scale through the Occupy movement. Now there is a call for March 1 to see a national day of action of mass protests throughout the country against tuition hikes, education cuts, and a future of joblessness, alienation, and corporate domination. Mobilize in your school and community to make March 1 the biggest protest possible!

Poverty is ugly. Really. All around us we are bombarded with images of trim, beautiful people with smiling mouths filled with white straight teeth. The reality amongst the working class and poor are mouths with gaps from missing teeth and amputations resulting from rampant diabetes.

It’s been five full years since the sub-prime housing market collapsed, triggering recession, skyrocketing unemployment, and a foreclosure crisis that continues to ravage working class neighborhoods. Yet still, while Wall Street got bailed out, no government relief is in sight for homeowners or our communities. But hope is on the way. Not from any politicians - both parties are completely bought off by Wall Street - but rather from ordinary people rising up to reclaim their homes and neighborhoods! The re-orientation of the Occupy movement to "Occupy Homes" offers the potential to build a serious national movement.

The foreclosure crisis is hitting the Twin Cities hard. According to a study by Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, Minneapolis alone has had over 13,000 foreclosures since 2006, with a majority of evicted families moving out of the city. In November, a campaign was launched by a coalition of activists, including Occupy Minneapolis and Socialist Alternative, to occupy foreclosed homes and stop the banks from destroying our communities.

In response to coordinated attacks by corporations and the police, West Coast Occupy groups have called for a coordinated shutdown of all West Coast ports on December 12. Thousands of people will attempt to blockade ports and disrupt "Wall Street on The Waterfront."

Everything in Europe has turned into its opposite. The euro was intended to speed the integration of the participants and create a stable currency zone. Instead, it has currently become the main immediate source of instability and crisis in the world economy. Following the subprime crisis and collapse of the banking system in 2007-08, with a flight from complex financial packages and derivatives, the banks moved into sovereign debt as a supposedly "risk-free" investment. Now, the banks – including U.S. banks – are faced with potentially catastrophic losses as a result of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

As we move closer to the November 23 deadline for the Congressional “Super Committee” to present its plan to cut $1.5 trillion from the federal budget deficit, both major parties have put forward proposals which sharply attack Medicare, Medicaid, and other social programs. If these policies go through, it will be the most devastating attack on New Deal programs since they were first established. Massive struggles need to be organized to defeat these cuts.

The G20 meeting of the world’s most powerful government leaders on 3 and 4 November was a "No Cannes Do" summit. The discussions were hijacked by the Greek crisis. George Papandreou’s call for a referendum on the eurozone bailout package - additional loans for even more savage cuts - infuriated European leaders and led to the withdrawal of the package.

Interview with Andreas Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI in Greece) From Socialist View, the political journal of the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)

In the face of growing police repression of Occupy Wall Street protests across the country, and now that Occupy Seattle faces a critical juncture, we are urgently appealing for support from activists, workers and students in Seattle, around the U.S. and internationally.

The Super Committee has been meeting behind closed doors since mid-September, with no disclosures to the public. Their intention is to spring their plan on the public as late as possible, in order to reduce the time for angry protests to appear. This committee is nothing more than a bipartisan axe-man to inflict further pain on the working people who suffer the most from the financial crisis.

As the 99% begin to find their own independent voice, the question about what policies we should support to break the power of Wall Street will be discussed more. Socialists argue that we need to take the biggest banks into public ownership and run them democratically by workers and the general public.

After a year and a half, the Greek debt crisis is far from resolved. In fact, with Greece on the verge of a social explosion, a default and exit from the euro appears almost inevitable. The eurozone is threatened by an interlocking sovereign debt and banking crisis, compounded by near-zero growth. Capitalist leaders are in complete disarray. Competing national interests are a barrier to cooperative measures. LYNN WALSH analyses the latest twists and turns of the eurozone crisis.

After a year and a half, the Greek debt crisis is far from resolved. In fact, with Greece on the verge of a social explosion, a default and exit from the euro appears almost inevitable. The eurozone is threatened by an interlocking sovereign debt and banking crisis, compounded by near-zero growth. Capitalist leaders are in complete disarray. Competing national interests are a barrier to cooperative measures. LYNN WALSH analyses the latest twists and turns of the eurozone crisis.

Riot police attack students demonstrating at Presidential Palace and a general strike has been called in response. On Thursday 6 October students demonstrating for free education were met by savage attacks from riot police. Water canons, tear gas and police horse charges were deployed before students could even finish assembling. Continuing repression against the student movement is creating an explosive situation in Chile.