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Wages high enough to cover basic expenses are only the beginning of the Left's struggle to eliminate economic insecurity. We must also fight for workers' rights on the job, as well as a robust and sturdy social safety net to protect people when they find themselves out of work. Americans suffer the worst worker benefits... Read More
Bipartisanship is dead. But job-killing trade agreements like NAFTA were promoted by politicians of both major parties alike — until Donald Trump. "Our politicians have aggressively pursued a policy of globalization, moving our jobs, our wealth and our factories to Mexico and overseas. Globalization has made the financial elite, who donate to politicians, very, very... Read More
…and (some) devasting *blockades* as well. Remembering three major insurrections of the 20th century—the 1932 ‘Bonus Army’ invasion of Washington D.C., the nationalized union occupations of 1936-37, and the 1965 ‘Bloody Sunday’ bridge blockade in Selma—helps put the Jan 6 ‘assault on democracy’ into context. The two earlier uprisings are now largely forgotten, but the... Read More
Esteban Gil, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Program Director in New Orleans, is indignant. The SPLC "union" is not getting its fair share of the pie. Gil recently appeared in negotiations with SPLC leadership dressed up like Fidel Castro and flanked by the flags of anarcho-communist ("antifa") groups, the IWW and the CNT, to negotiate... Read More
Bombshell leaked emails showing that Amazon strikebreakers uses racial diversity to ensure workers at Whole Foods never unionize only confirms taboo research showing that multiculturalism destroys civic cohesion and engagement of all kinds. Unionized workers -- and their threat to strike -- is a massive threat to executive bonuses and a companies stock value. America's... Read More
In contrast to most other industrialised nations, the US has never accepted the concept of labor unions, which were always denigrated in the media as a kind of dangerous socialism that would exploit workers. But it was always true that it was capitalism that exploited workers and socialism that attempted to protect them. Thanks to... Read More