Workers Struggle
News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
Cuba’s Lung Cancer Vaccine Could Save Your Life
Cuba, famed maker of delicious (and cancery) cigars, may just have an anti-lung cancer vaccine that’s worth getting excited about. CimaVax-EGF isn’t preventative, but it may make this horrible deadly disease just a plain old horrible disease. The newly available… Read More ›
Gas prices rising: Why GOP won’t address real cause
Gas prices are rising not because of increased demand but because Wall Street is betting on higher gas prices. By Robert Reich, Guest blogger Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding… Read More ›
Trayvon Martin 911 Tape Reveals Possible Racial Slur By Neighborhood Watchman George Zimmerman (VIDEO)
By David Moye Law enforcement officials in Sanford, Fla., investigating last month’s shooting of an unarmed black teen by self-appointed neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman say they may have missed a possible racist remark made by Zimmerman to a 911… Read More ›
Israel won’t co-operate with UN mission on settlements
Ruth Pollard JERUSALEM: Israel has described as ”hypocritical” a decision by the United Nations Human Rights Council to launch an investigation into the impact of its settlement construction on the human rights of Palestinians. About 500,000 Israelis and 2.5 million… Read More ›
Review of “The Hunger Games”
Introduction The Hunger Games (2012), based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins, is not an easy film to watch. It follows the story of an adolescent girl named Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) made to fight in a… Read More ›
Zimmerman, One-Man Lynch Mob, Intended To Kill Trayvon All Along
The parents of Trayvon Martin have demonstrated remarkable dignity and composure under duress and one can see why their son’s execution by the one-man lynch mob, George Zimmerman, has garnered global support. Yesterday while in New York City the parents… Read More ›
Trayvon Martin case: No-confidence vote for Sanford police chief
By Tina Susman Reporting from Sanford, Fla.— In a tense meeting Wednesday that highlighted growing tensions over the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, local officials in Sanford, Fla., passed a vote of no confidence in the police chief… Read More ›
Iraqis Hold Million-Strong Demo on Anniversary of War
ABOUT a million loyalists of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have rallied in southern Iraq decrying poor services and rampant graft on the ninth anniversary of the US-led invasion against Saddam Hussein. Protesters flooded the centre of the southern port city of… Read More ›
Trayvon Martin Killing’s Youngest Witness, 13, Still Can Hear The Screams
SANFORD, Fla. — Austin McLendon hasn’t been the same since that night three Sundays ago when Trayvon Martin was killed. His mother says he’s been arguing with his siblings more than usual. His 8th grade teachers have called home saying… Read More ›
There Are 24 Empty Houses for Every Homeless Person in America
18.6 Million Empty Houses in America That is what the census says. Andrew Leonard in Salon notes that it is a bit misleading, that “4.7 million are for “seasonal use” only, the Census tells us — unoccupied vacation homes, in… Read More ›
St. Patrick’s Day and the Irish Struggle
St. Patrick’s Day is typically portrayed as a day for drinking, festivities and revelry. However, we in the American Party of Labor believe that revolutionaries should set aside some time every year to remember the tragedy of discrimination the Irish… Read More ›
The World is a Ghetto: Global Slums – Out of Sight and out of Mind: Deterioration of the Human Condition
It has been estimated that more than one to two billion human beings live in slums or shanty towns all over the world. One in every three people in the world will live in slums in the next coming twenty… Read More ›
On Emotionalism
When we come together to discuss the problems of our world, their solutions and the means by which we can achieve these ends, it is often that emotions come to the forefront. This is understandable, since it is impossible to… Read More ›
Homeless mother who sent six-year-old son to better school in the wrong town jailed for five years
By Graham Smith A mother who pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her six-year-old son in the wrong school district has been sentenced to five years in prison. Tonya McDowell sent her son to an elementary school in Norwalk, Connecticut, instead… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 