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“Civil Wars” ignores the political lessons
"The Civil Wars in US Labor" does not explain why a generation of activists failed to democratize the unions and what the next generation of activists must 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.
Continue reading...Support the Egyptian Revolution!
31. January 2011
Revolutions that topple tyrants can transform themselves into revolutionary movements that challenge all tyranny. This is what the ruling class most fears, not only in Egypt, but also in the US and around the world.
Continue reading...“We give them so much, and they give us so little back”
14. November 2010
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The members of UNITE-HERE Local 75 know that nothing is won without a fight and that class solidarity is the best medicine. They inspire us all.
Continue reading...US Social Forum 2010 – We Need Unity in Action
5. July 2010
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.
Continue reading...Support Detroit’s Emergency Medics!
5. July 2010
Detroit medics who work for the city's Emergency Medical Service desperately need our support - please sign their online petition.
Continue reading...Assembly-Line Medicine
17. April 2010
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By expanding Taylorism to the service sector, capitalism has expanded the class struggle to every school and hospital. Opportunities have never been better to build a unified movement of the working-class.
Continue reading...The Fight for Medicare in Canada
17. April 2010
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The story of how Canadian medicare was won and how it is being lost provides many valuable lessons.
Continue reading...Union Democracy On Trial
21. March 2010
by Carl Finamore - SEIU is pouring massive resources into defeating the fastest growing labor organization in California, the member-led NUHW. (Includes post-trial update.)
Continue reading...Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
28. July 2009
by Susan Rosenthal - "Solidarity Divided" calls for a return to the class-struggle politics that originally built the unions. However, these politics did not come from the unions, but from the socialists who were active inside of them.
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- Minnesota Nurses Authorize Strike for Patients' Rights
- Why California Health Workers are Voting for NUHW
- B.C. outlaws older workers' right to claim for workplace injuries
- Hyatt housekeepers file mass injury complaint
- $19 billion stolen annually from US workers' wages
- U.S. Nurses Rising!
- Kaiser Health Workers Take Back Their Union - Vote NUHW
- Workers Rights are HOT! Boycott "Bad Hotels"
- Kaiser Nurses Win Safer Staffing Levels
- Support NUHW!
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (21)
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (11)
- Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness (8)
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism (7)
- The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind (7)
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics? (7)
- War in the House of Labor (6)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- Whose World? OUR World!
- “Civil Wars” ignores the political lessons
- “I got sick and tired of being treated like crap”
- One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
- Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight
- The ABCs of Socialism
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
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- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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23. September 2011
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