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Fighting to Win

admin — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:35:51 +0000

"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.

Read it and Revolt

admin — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:18:54 +0000

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.

The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973

admin — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:31:37 +0000

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.

Whose World? OUR World!

admin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:58:14 +0000

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

“Civil Wars” Misses the Mark

admin — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:53:22 +0000

"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?

How Liberals Justify Torture

admin — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:38:30 +0000

Just because medical professionals are asked to assist with torture does not transform the torture victim into a patient and the torture chamber into a medical consulting room.

No More Dictatorships: Build the Social Revolution!

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:41:08 +0000

The American people are ruled by the biggest, baddest dictatorship of all – the US capitalist class.

One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:00:49 +0000

Corporate America is awash in cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.

US Social Forum 2010 – We Need Unity in Action

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:32:59 +0000

Capitalism is trying to solve its financial problems by attacking all workers. We can defend our rights only by fighting back as a class. “An injury to one is an injury to all” means that we must treat every battle as our own.

Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness

admin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:53:40 +0000

America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Social inequality affects the health of populations even more than access to medical care.