"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...Monday, January 31, 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...Monday, January 10, 2011
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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...Monday, September 20, 2010
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.
Continue reading...Saturday, April 17, 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...Tuesday, September 1, 2009
by Vicente Navarro - In the early 1970s, Chileans fought for a democratized and inclusive National Health Service. The lessons of that struggle are critical to our fight for universal health care today.
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 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.
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
by Immanuel Ness - Solidarity Divided is the first major work to address seriously - without personal attacks and exaggeration - the 2005 crisis and split of organized labor.
Continue reading...Friday, March 20, 2009
That people react so negatively to the idea of socialism indicates how deeply capitalism has damaged our connections with one another.
Continue reading...Sunday, October 5, 2008
As America slips deeper into crisis, liberal efforts to preserve the capitalist system counter socialist efforts to replace it.
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Friday, September 23, 2011
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