Activists are mobilizing around President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $9.00, and polling shows that Americans across the political spectrum agree with such a policy. But here’s an interesting fact about what the minimum wage could be instead. The… Read More ›
Labor
The Labor Movement in America
Leave it to the Market?
For more than twenty years now, the “free market” has been the rallying cry of American politics. Conservatives sing its praises while occasionally betraying it when it suits their constituency, liberals won’t criticize it but claim that it needs to… Read More ›
Profiting off hunger: Wall Street makes big gains over food price spikes
AFP Photo / Tony Karuba Powerful firms like Goldman Sachs have made hundreds of millions of dollars in food future trades. Critics accuse them of profiting off starvation and market manipulation, while traders claim their profits are due to increasing… Read More ›
Stacey Campfield, Tennessee GOP Lawmaker, Wants To Tie Welfare Benefits To Children’s Grades
By Nick Wing Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield (R) introduced a bill this week seeking to make welfare benefits contingent upon the grades of a would-be recipient’s children. Campfield’s legislation, filed Thursday, would “require the reduction of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families… Read More ›
World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over
AFP Photo / Ahmad Al-Rubaye The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is… Read More ›
Unemployed far outnumber job openings in every sector
The figure below shows the number of unemployed workers and the number of job openings by sector. Unemployed workers far outnumber job openings in every sector, underscoring the fact that the main cause of today’s persistent high unemployment is a… Read More ›
APL Speech from 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protest against Golden Dawn in Chicago
Greetings fellow anti-fascists and comrades. Welcome to this solidarity action with immigrant rights groups and anti-fascists in Athens, across Greece and around the world. We have a few speakers today who will talk about Greece’s critical struggle against the rising… Read More ›
Speech & Photos from 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protest in Chicago against Golden Dawn
The following statement was read aloud by the comrades of the No Golden Dawn in Chicago Working Group in front of the Greek consulate NoGoldenDawnChicago@gmail.com | http://www.facebook.com/NoFascistGoldenDawnPartyInChicago | @NoGoldenDawnChi | 312-446-4939 January 19, 2013 The Honorable Ioanna Efthymiadou Consul General in… Read More ›
A Call for International Solidarity for the 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protests against Golden Dawn
Chicago/Greece Anti-Fascist Working Group Press Contact: Chris Geovanis, chrisgeovanis@gmail.com, NoGoldenDawnChicago@gmail.com, 312-446-4939 https://www.facebook.com/NoFascistGoldenDawnPartyInChicago | http://on.fb.me/Xck0Nf | @NoGoldenDawnChi | #antifa19jan #Greece January 19, 2012 Greetings from Chicago, comrades. We write as workers, immigrants, artists and activists from a host of backgrounds with one message… Read More ›
Homeless Man Choked to Death by Store Manager for Stealing Toothpaste
CVS – the once thought of drug and convenience store will now be known as the store that defends its manager’s rights to kill shoplifters…even those that are caught taking a single tube of toothpaste. Death for toothpaste. Would anyone ever exchange… Read More ›
The Right-to-Exploit
by ROBERT HANHAM Right-to-Work Laws as Weapons of Class War No sooner had Michigan’s ‘right-to-work’ (RTW) law passed, than supporters were out in force crowing about their success and the prospect of other states falling victim. Non-RTW states Alaska, Illinois,… Read More ›
Video: FBI knew of plot to kill Occupy Wall Street activists, remained silent
Only one month into the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations last year, plans were formulated to identify key figures in the movement and execute them with a coordinated assault using sniper rifles, new documents reveal.
A projected 13.1 percent of workers will be unemployed at some point in 2013
New data show that 14.9 percent of the workforce was unemployed at some point in 2011, much higher than the official 2011 unemployment rate of 8.9 percent. How can this be? Each month, the official unemployment rate provides the share… Read More ›
Tunisia’s ‘unfinished revolution’ — interview with Workers’ Party militant
By Peter Boyle November 16, 2012 — Green Left Weekly — Abdel Jabbar Madouri (pictured above) has been a militant in Tunisia since his early secondary school days. He was jailed three times (in 1987,1993 and 2002) because of his political activism. After every arrest,… Read More ›
Post-election report shows record surge in Americans using food stamps
The number of Americans relying on food stamps to stay fed has been steadily on the rise, hitting an all-time record this year, with more than 47.1 million Americans using government assistance to obtain food. The US Monthly Data report,… Read More ›
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