News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
The 11 largest drug companies have made $711 billion in profits in just a decade, largely due to overcharging Medicare, which does not seek out competitive prices and uses taxpayer funds to support Big Pharma. Since Medicare is prohibited from… Read More ›
by Dave Zirin Never have I witnessed a gap between the mainstream media and the public quite like the last twenty-four hours since the death of Margaret Thatcher. While both the press and President Obama were uttering tearful remembrances, thousands… Read More ›
By Tom Mills Thatcher is dead. But for years she was a shadow of her former self. After her fall from power in 1990 she slowly faded away from public life and when she did wander back onto the public stage… Read More ›
By Cherri Gregg PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Mural Arts Program today rededicated a mural of Paul Robeson on his 115th birthday, while students from Robeson High School in West Philadelphia celebrated a victory inspired by the civil rights leader. At… Read More ›
WASHINGTON — On any given day, about 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at the 50 largest detention facilities that make up the sprawling patchwork of holding centers nationwide overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, according to new federal data…. Read More ›
CEOs are living the good life. On the company’s dime. America’s 100 best-paid corporate chiefs got an 18.7 percent boost in their perks packages, according to a survey of executive pay performed by Equilar for The New York Times. Those perks,… Read More ›
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of… Read More ›
The estimated 50 million Americans already living in poverty will be hit hardest by the $85 billion in spending cuts set to begin after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach an agreement over the most effective way to address the… Read More ›
KFC manager’s version changes Written by Emily Le Coz A Tupelo woman hired earlier this month by a KFC was fired Monday after the franchise owner discovered she’s homeless. Eunice Jasica has been staying at the Salvation Army lodge since early… Read More ›
The protests against Golden Dawn around the world gained much media attention, including the one in Chicago where you were the key note speaker. What happened at this Jan. 19th event? Well, I was the “MC” for want of a… Read More ›
Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party that has tormented Greece and terrorized immigrants, has now brought its fascist message of anti-democratic intimidation to New York City. On March 2, New York supporters of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) had planned… Read More ›
Comrades around the world! Today we celebrate March 8th, International Women’s Day. We reaffirm that the link between women’s liberation and total human emancipation from exploitation is unbreakable, and that we cannot have one without the other. To speak about… Read More ›
Several international journalists, including an RT cameraman, have suffered from teargas as IDF have launched teargas bombs at the media crews outside Ofer Prison, West Bank. In recent weeks protests outside the facility have left scores of injured. The RT… Read More ›
By OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA He wrote, he read, and mostly he spoke. Hugo Chávez, whose death has been announced, was devoted to the word. He spoke publicly an average of 40 hours per week. As president, he didn’t hold regular cabinet meetings; he’d bring… Read More ›
Jonathan Watts and Virginia Lopez in Caracas Vice president Nicolas Maduro takes up interim post Wave of mourning breaks out in streets of Venezuela Chávez to get state funeral in Caracas Venezuelans began seven days of painful and public mourning on Tuesday night… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 