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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.
Continue reading...Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor
27. August 2012
The international traffic in temporary workers is Capital's latest move to accumulate more wealth by lowering the price of labor.
Continue reading...Recipe for a Massacre
20. August 2012
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.
Continue reading...Fighting to Win
25. June 2012
"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.
Continue reading...Read it and Revolt
4. June 2012
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.
Continue reading...The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
11. March 2012
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.
Continue reading...Hope for Life Beyond Capitalism
20. February 2012
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.
Continue reading...Whose World? OUR World!
17. November 2011
Whatever the shape, composition and demands of these movements, the common denominator is CLASS ANGER – the rage of the oppressed against their oppressors.
Continue reading...“Civil Wars” Misses the Mark
23. September 2011
"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?
Continue reading...“I got sick and tired of being treated like crap”
31. July 2011
by Jane Edgett - Hundreds of thousands of Canadian families have been plunged into poverty by a workers compensation system that denies them support.
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