A good piece by Marc Norton:
““We are workers at Whole Foods Market building a movement for power and a voice on the job,” reads a petition that had been circulated at the store, signed by more than 50 workers.
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Voting? Why bother?
So the Greedy Old Pigs (GOP) have rigged it so voting really doesn’t matter. “Getting out the vote” doesn’t mean shit under these circumstances. They have established a system of minority rule which will put them in the white house …
Read moreMaking Sense of the State Minimum Wage Hikes
Fascinating to see this being publishing in the business press. It’s actually an important question and the obvious answer is that in most places the recent hikes were not enough. … But depending on legislation and ballot measures (which generally …
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Languages of the Unheard by Stephen D’Arcy
In reflecting upon the huge drop in the level of strikes in Canada (similar to USA), Steve D’Arcy makes the point here that the radical left can only become “real” in the context of mass popular self-activity. This leads to …
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What is to be imagined-and what is to be done?
Paul Street looks at limitations of what passes for a “left” in the USA: (1) focus solely on criticism of what is without proposing a replacement in which people would be liberated from the present system of oppression & exploitation, …
Read moreNew Union Aims to take on NUMSA
I see that the “new” union has chosen the name of the old union which existed during the apartheid era.
As a South Africa comrade pointed out, some NUMSA members have complained: “Some of our members have come to us …
Read moreEthnic Cleansing In Detroit, Michigan
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Water turned off, heat turned off, and now homes taken away. The project to change the color of Detroit is reaching its crescendo. Some 6,000 Detroit homes have just been sold to an “un-named bidder” for $3 million. …
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