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Support Detroit’s Emergency Medics!

5. July 2010

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Support Detroit’s Emergency Medics!

Detroit medics who work for the city's Emergency Medical Service desperately need our support - please sign their online petition.

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Union Democracy On Trial

21. March 2010

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Union Democracy On Trial

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.)

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Solidarity Divided: A Welcome Return to Class Politics

28. July 2009

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Solidarity Divided: A Welcome Return to Class Politics

By refusing to fight the political class war, unions are losing the economic battle. Solidarity Divided raises the call for a new labor movement that will fight for the entire working class: union and non-union, employed and unemployed, all races, genders, sexual orientations, native-born and immigrant.

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Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight

7. June 2009

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Professional Poison: How Professionals Sabotage Social Movements, and Why Workers Should Lead Our Fight

Professionals dominate social change organizations and also hold them back. Despite their good intentions, professionals are a conservative force. The skills they have acquired to serve an oppressive system are the opposite of the skills required to challenge that system.

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The ABCs of Socialism

20. March 2009

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The ABCs of Socialism

That people react so negatively to the idea of socialism indicates how deeply capitalism has damaged our connections with one another.

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Blood Money

23. November 2008

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Blood Money

The billions of dollars being lavished on banks and other corporations is blood money. It's available only because people like Heather are being robbed of their kidneys, their health and their lives.

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America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism

5. October 2008

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America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism

As America slips deeper into crisis, liberal efforts to preserve the capitalist system counter socialist efforts to replace it.

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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

18. May 2008

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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray those who protest as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.

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Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?

7. December 2007

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Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?

In their efforts to protect animals from unnecessary suffering, some people want to extend the fight for human rights and liberation to animals. While this sounds appealing, it confuses the meaning of rights and liberation

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Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike

1. May 1996

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Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike

The spark that led to the unionization of the giant General Motors Corporation, and eventually of the entire auto industry, was ignited on December 30, 1936, when auto workers in Flint Michigan sat down and occupied their plants.

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