News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
Kalai, like many other villages in Bangladesh, appears a rural idyll at first sight. But several villagers here have resorted to selling organs to pay back microcredit loans that were meant to lift them out of poverty. Journalist Sophie Cousins… Read More ›
The American Party of Labor is reprinting and disseminating the following communiqué from the Fight Back News Service. We fully endorse and support the Committee to Stop FBI Repression and stand in complete solidarity with Rasmieh Odeh and with other… Read More ›
By Stephen Zunes It has been exactly 30 years since US forces invaded Grenada, ending that Caribbean island nation’s four-year socialist experiment. The island nation no bigger than Martha’s Vineyard, with a population that could barely fill the Rose Bowl, was… Read More ›
Rules for the first development of its kind on the communist island take effect in November, but critics are worried. by Chris Arsenault Communist Cuba is the latest country to plan a “Special Economic Zone”, part of an economic model blasted… Read More ›
By News Bulletin. Translation & commentary by Axis of Logic La Iguana TV. Axis of Logic Monday, Oct 21, 2013 Editor’s Comment: The corporate media in the United States and Europe are fond of reporting “shortages” of essential goods available… 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 ›
Polls reveal that up to 70 percent of the Tajikistan population longs for the Soviet Union era. Industrial output is a fraction of 1990 levels, and some 2 million Tajiks have emigrated to Russia in search of work. By Iason Athanasiadis… 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 CARLOS BORRERO The Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap has died. Throughout what was once known as the Third World as well as among those with revolutionary consciousness in the centers of imperialism, we pay tribute to one of the… Read More ›
Costas Lapavitsas: The only way to defeat the Golden Dawn and Greek fascism is through popular mobilization that persuades Greek working people and the middle class that democracy and social change can create a just economy – October 3, 13 JAISAL… 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 David Ferguson Guido Barilla, president of the family-owned Barilla pasta company, said in a radio interview on Wednesday that his company only supports “the traditional family” and that LGBT people “can go eat someone else’s pasta.” According to John Aravosis… Read More ›
By Hunter Stuart On the heels of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking remarks faulting the Roman Catholic Church for being overly focused on homosexuality and abortion, news has emerged that the pontiff ordered the excommunication of a priest who advocated for women’s rights and gay marriage…. Read More ›
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