The Labor Movement in America
April 12 saw a heated confrontation between Fascists and Anti-fascists when about forty Maidan supporters attempted to break into an Anti-fascist sponsored teach-in at United Electric Hall on S. Ashland. The forty Maidan supporters included demonstrators flying the flags of… Read More ›
The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. … Read More ›
When I was about thirteen-years-old I chanced upon an article in Henry Luce’s Life magazine that described East Harlem ( a Manhattan working class neighborhood) as “a slum inhabited by beggar poor Italians, Negroes, and Puerto Ricans,” words that stung… Read More ›
My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine. —By Mac McClelland “DON’T TAKE ANYTHING that happens to you there personally,” the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at… Read More ›
Dec. 8, 2013 Today is the fifth anniversary of the founding of the American Party of Labor (APL). On December 8th, 2008, the Party came into existence with the conclusion of our Founding Congress. Delegates from the pre-party committee came… Read More ›
By Clare Kim As the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County continues to rise, the City Council is weighing a ban on feeding homeless people in public areas. City Council members Tom LaBonge and Mitch O’Farrell, both Democrats, introduced the resolution… Read More ›
By Linda Tirado What we know about poverty is often academic. It’s rare to have a poor person actually explain it on their own behalf. So this is me doing that. There’s no way to structure this coherently. They are random… Read More ›
Few phrases are as empty as the term “politically correct” and its opposite, “politically incorrect.” Although it is used by people of all political stripes, it is most commonly wielded by the right. Labeling something “politically correct” or “PC” is… Read More ›
The head of the largest food bank says the $5 billion annual cut will take a week of meals off millions’ plates BY JOSH EIDELSON Food stamp recipients face a massive benefit cut set to kick in when stimulus funds expire… Read More ›
by PAUL C. GORSKI Class, Race and Images of Wilma In my favorite photograph of my Grandma Wilma, taken during her early teens, she stands outside her Kitzmiller, Maryland, house. The house’s exterior, cracking and worn, hints at the working… Read More ›
By Nicole Ostrow Children raised in poverty or in orphanages experience chronic stress early in life that can have long-lasting effects on the brain, setting them up for future mental and physical ailments as adults, two studies found. The stress of… Read More ›
BY BRYCE COVERT The mental strain of living in poverty and thinking constantly about tight finances can drop a person’s IQ by as much as 13 percent, or about the equivalent of losing a night of sleep, according to a new study…. Read More ›
The flesh-eating drug Krokodil made its horrifying United States debut two weeks ago in Arizona, but as many feared, its use has spread: there have now been three reports of the drug in a Chicago suburb. Krokodil, the inexpensive “heroin substitute” that is really… Read More ›
By David Ferguson A potentially lethal, flesh-eating narcotic compound is catching on in parts of Arizona. Users inject the drug to get high, and the scaly, rotten patches of necrotic flesh it can leave behind have led to the drug… Read More ›
by Eliza Shapiro, Christine Pelisek What pushed a Kenyan servant to flag down a commuter bus to flee the wife of King Abdullah’s grandson? Eliza Shapiro and Christine Pelisek on the shocking human-trafficking case It’s the story of the princess and her… Read More ›
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