Local immigrant right’s organizations, angry over the increase in deportations under the Obama administration, organized hundreds to protest the president’s visit to Seattle on Aug. 17. The multiracial crowd of… Read more »
economy
Essay Review: “The End of Men” — or the end of class analysis?
According to “The End of Men,” a buzzed-about article in The Atlantic, U.S. males are failing in employment, education and the family while women surge ahead. Author Hanna Rosin argues… Read more »
FSP Convention: A profit system in crisis, a party in motion
From July 9-12, amid news of economic crisis, war, and ecological disaster, the U.S. Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) met to analyze the times and discuss strategies for fighting back and… Read more »
Para salvar la Revolución cubana se requiere un nuevo partido socialista
Hace medio siglo, el pueblo cubano encendió una chispa de esperanza para los desposeídos del planeta haciendo la revolución y creando el primer estado obrero en el occidente. Desde un… Read more »
Labor Weather Report: A glance at how some workers and their unions are faring in the class struggle.
August 2010: Domestic justice New York passes a first of its kind law giving mostly immigrant domestic workers basic labor rights like overtime pay, a day off a week, and… Read more »
California’s budget fiasco
Hundreds of thousands of public employees are the scapegoats for California’s budget crisis; this writer is one of them. Politicians and media paint our highly unionized workforce as selfish because… Read more »
Labor strikes engulf Europe: Mass support swells response to global austerity program
General strikes, student protests and mass demonstrations are still rocking Europe in opposition to relentless budget cuts and belt-tightening. “We are at war with the government,” explained a Greek demonstrator,… Read more »
Las crisis del presupuesto estatal ameritan una respuesta unida de parte de los sindicatos laborales y las comunidades
Rickii Ainey, confinada en su casa de Nueva Orleans a causa de la artritis, está luchando desesperadamente por conservar su asistente de cuidado personal financiado por Medicaid. Hace cuatro años,… Read more »
State budget crises call for a united response by labor unions and communities
Rickii Ainey, homebound in New Orleans with arthritis, is fighting desperately to keep her Medicaid-funded personal care assistant. Four years ago, she got in-home aid after she tried to commit… Read more »
The global student revolt
In mid-December, paint bombs splattered the Rolls-Royce of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker while students screamed, “Off with their heads!” Thousands demonstrated in London’s Parliament Square. More thousands of students… Read more »
