An article following the 2008 financial meltdown explains clearly how these crises come about — and what they mean for working people.
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Obama’s raw deal for workers. To fund genuine job creation, tax profits and end the wars
The American Jobs Act contains just enough window dressing about “creating jobs” to mask its real goal: making workers think it’s about creating jobs. The $447 billion Obama proposal is… Read more »
FS editorial – Europe’s money woes: austerity or revolution?
Economic convulsions in the European Union are not about spoiled workers having it too good with all their costly social welfare programs. Rather, they are about Europe’s desperate ruling class… Read more »
Book Review: Wall Street scam artists and the Washington connection
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind’s bestselling book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President (Harper Collins Publishers), belongs to a peculiar genre of literature. Based on… Read more »
How the rich get richer (and everybody else gets poorer)
Washington is home to some of the most profitable corporations in the world, including Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, Amazon, T-Mobile, and Costco. Four of the richest 23 people in the country… Read more »
Why is Congress killing the postal service?
Legislators and the rightwing political machine are out to get the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Why? Not because the Internet has replaced snail mail. It hasn’t. A lot of people… Read more »
Jerry Brown shreds California safety net
Gov. Brown’s 2012 budget includes cutting welfare services again, eliminating Healthy Families which serves 900,000 children, and more reductions of Medi-Cal, childcare and home health aid. “This is the best… Read more »
La campaña presidencial no millonaria: El Partido de Libertad Socialista responde a un juego político tramposo
Para obtener una copia descargable de este artículo, haga clic aquí. Probablemente el año 2011 será registrado en la historia, justo como se hizo en la cubierta de la revista… Read more »
The un-millionaire presidential campaign: FSP’s answer to a rigged political system
For a downloadable copy of this article, click here. [PDF, 274kB] 2011 will probably register in history, as it did on Time magazine’s cover, as the year of the protester…. Read more »
Mumia Abu-Jamal: No matter their color, politicians are failing people in hard times
In December 2011, Black revolutionary Mumia Abu-Jamal finally overturned a death sentence imposed in 1982 when he was framed for a cop’s murder. After leaving death row, Abu-Jamal was still… Read more »
