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Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers

Friday, April 5, 2013

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Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers

Smoking serves as a political smokescreen to hide the damage caused by occupational and environmental pollution.

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Record wealth inequality in America

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor

Monday, August 27, 2012

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Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor

The international traffic in temporary workers is Capital's latest move to accumulate more wealth by lowering the price of labor.

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Recipe for a Massacre

Monday, August 20, 2012

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Recipe for a Massacre

As shocking as it was, South Africa's Marikana massacre was inevitable, and it will be followed by more such tragedies, and not only in South Africa.

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Fighting to Win

Monday, June 25, 2012

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Fighting to Win

"Reviving the Strike" argues that workers’ only real bargaining power is their ability to stop production and, to do this, workers must fight as a class. By abandoning these tactics, unions have lost their ability to defend the working class. Explains what it will take to revive the strike and regain lost ground.

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Read it and Revolt

Monday, June 4, 2012

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Read it and Revolt

Autoworker Gregg Shotwell reveals how General Motors conspired with the United Auto Workers (UAW) bureaucracy to steal workers’ pensions, slash wages and shed jobs to help expand GM's global empire.

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Mass demonstrations rock Spain

Monday, May 14, 2012

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The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973

Sunday, March 11, 2012

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The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973

Chile showed that a challenge to class inequality in the medical system is a challenge to the capitalist system as a whole. Consequently, any serious movement for reform must prepare to fight a class war.

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Hope for Life Beyond Capitalism

Monday, February 20, 2012

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Hope for Life Beyond Capitalism

According to Michael Albert, past attempts to build socialism have failed, not because the capitalist class has been utterly ruthless in holding onto power, but because socialists have the wrong methods and goals.

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Flash Mob Occupies Wells Fargo

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Whose World? OUR World!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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Whose World? OUR World!

Whatever the shape, composition and demands of these movements, the common denominator is CLASS ANGER – the rage of the oppressed against their oppressors.

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Occupy Wall Street movement grows

Friday, October 7, 2011

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“Civil Wars” Misses the Mark

Friday, September 23, 2011

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“Civil Wars” Misses the Mark

"The Civil Wars in US Labor" chronicles the corruption, back-stabbing, power-grabbing, and opportunistic alliances that have characterized recent turf wars among American unions. Why did a generation of activists fail to democratize the unions, and what must we do differently to avoid repeating that failure?

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23,000 nurses strike 34 California hospitals

Friday, September 23, 2011

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Angry Americans Occupy Wall Street

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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