Tag Archive | "capitalism"
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
Monday, August 27, 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
Monday, August 20, 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
Monday, June 25, 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
Monday, June 4, 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...Hope for Life Beyond Capitalism
Monday, February 20, 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...“Civil Wars” Misses the Mark
Friday, September 23, 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...No More Dictatorships: Build the Social Revolution!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The American people are ruled by the biggest, baddest dictatorship of all – the US capitalist class.
Continue reading...Hungry for Solutions
Monday, January 10, 2011
Gabor Maté’s books are commercially successful because they tap into popular awareness of social problems while avoiding the uncomfortable conclusion that social revolution is required to solve them.
Continue reading...Madness, Power and the Media
Monday, January 3, 2011
Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.
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- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
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- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
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Friday, April 5, 2013
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