News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
On October 20, 1956, W. E. B. Du Bois delivered this eloquent indictment of US politics and why he won’t vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Du Bois condemns both Democrats and Republicans for their indifferent positions on the influence… Read More ›
A woman may be fined $600 for each day she provided free food to children in a poor Philadelphia neighborhood for the past few months. Angela Prattis, 41, of Chester Township has been distributing free healthy lunches in a neighborhood… Read More ›
by George Wilson Everyone reading this knows what it’s like to be unemployed or to have their hours cut. Everyone knows unemployment and bad hours is a problem but little do people realize what causes the problem. Everyone has their… Read More ›
by Samir Amin The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising. The decline brought about by the current globalization of capitalism has produced an extraordinary increase in the so-called “informal”… Read More ›
By David Edwards The theory behind Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) assertion earlier this week that women who are victims of “legitimate” rape would not get pregnant appears to be based on 1972 research that cites experiments done in Nazi concentration… Read More ›
Schools That Limit Junk Food and Soda on Campus Have Lower Obesity Rates By Tom Philpott Is your kid’s public school a Coke school or a Pepsi school? If you don’t know what I mean, consider yourself lucky. Starting in… Read More ›
South African police opened fire at striking miners at the Marikana platinum mine, killing at least 30 protesters. The incident became the bloodiest industrial dispute in South Africa in the 20 years since the end of the country’s Apartheid regime…. Read More ›
A long-running struggle by General Motors workers in Colombia garnered new attention last week when five workers went on a hunger strike to protest the company’s firing of sick workers, sewing their lips together to draw attention to their cause…. Read More ›
“All I know is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.” – Jesse Helms “[T[ake care of this archbishop, these Jesuits, these other priests and especially these foreigners who are ruining the minds of our children. And… Read More ›
Israel does not explicitly ban importing books to Gaza, but the blockade makes it extraordinarily difficult to do so. The shortage amounts to a kind of censorship, Gazans say. By Ruqaya Izzidien, Contributor Gaza City, Gaza The Israeli blockade of… Read More ›
By COLIN MOYNIHAN Alexander Cockburn, the mordant left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in the political and cultural battlegrounds of the United States, died on Saturday in Bad Salzhausen, Germany, where he had been receiving medical… Read More ›
A group of protesters stormed the lobby of the Anaheim police station Sunday, about half an hour before Police Chief John Welter was scheduled to reveal more details about a fatal officer-involved shooting the night before that sparked a confrontation… Read More ›
By SONYA QUICK, FERMIN LEAL, ERIC CARPENTER and CINDY CARCAMO / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER ANAHEIM – Police Chief John Welter said Sunday afternoon that a man killed by officers was chased because of suspicious activity. The dead man was… Read More ›
[Translated by PC (AP)] INTERVIEW JACOB JUGASHVILI, THE GREAT GRANDSON OF THE MAN OF STEEL Vladimir Ilich Lenin Cell Chilean Comunista Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP) La Serena – Chile Jacob Jugashvili is a graduate professional artist, his native country… Read More ›
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