Tag Archive | "working class"
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...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...The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
Sunday, March 11, 2012
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.
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...Support the Egyptian Revolution!
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...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...One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
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.
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- Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers
- Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor
- Fighting to Win
- Read it and Revolt
- The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
- The ABCs of Socialism
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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Friday, April 5, 2013
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