The Chinese government targets union drive at Jasic factory.
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Letters to the Editor, August 2019
Readers’ opinion on Freedom Socialist articles.
A witness to lasting ruin in Vietnam
A riveting report on visiting the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
Labor Weather Report, June 2019
Wins, losses, and ongoing struggles for janitors, garment workers, and supermarket employees from Jordan to the U.S. South and North.
Labor Weather Report: Workers press on, February 2019
CWA workers defeat union busting in NYC; South Korean hunger strikers win changes in safety rules for all workers; and United Electrical workers in Pennsylvania strike and win back their union status from a new, anti-union company owner.
Labor Weather Report, October 2018
A glance at victorious fights in Missouri and Korea plus a hotel workers’ strike in Chicago.
North Korea: the back story behind US hypocrisy
The back story behind the latest round of saber-rattling and fear-mongering.
Review of Hardly War — Memories of the “Forgotten War”
Hardly War, by Don Mee Choi / Wave Books, 2016 / Illustrated; 97 pages Don Mee Choi is a South Korean poet, translator and anti-militarist now living in the U.S. Through a startling, kaleidoscopic collection of prose, poems, and photographs in her new book, Hardly War, she makes a powerful case against the U.S. justification… Read more »
Turkey: a police state in the making
Turkey’s internal political divisions and its role in the turbulent Middle East remain unexplained in the mainstream media. To begin with, Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan is a right-wing politician and Muslim fundamentalist. He founded the ruling capitalist party, Justice and Development. Economic austerities imposed on Turks by neoliberal privatization policies created mounting opposition, which was… Read more »
Putin: the cost of turning back history
With Putin’s supposed meddling in the U.S. election making headlines, a deeper question surfaces: How did the world’s first workers’ state become a country that could produce such a repressive, war-mongering capitalist autocrat? The answer lies first in the decades of U.S.-led aggression aimed at starving and isolating the Russian Revolution — and then in… Read more »
