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Costello: Checking Out of Feel Good Capitalism
Blog Post, October, 05 2009
Joanne Costello
Costello's ZSpace page
Thoughts on capitalism and its relationship to (dis)ability...my own experience with chronic illness.
Bybee: New stimulus urgently needed
Blog Post, September, 29 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
Another bold stimulus plan is urgently needed
Bybee: USW fights demolition
Blog Post, September, 23 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
The story of United Steelworkers trying to prevent the demolition of their steelmill, so that a new owner can step in and operate the plant.
Miller: What Is Capitalism?
Blog Post, September, 21 2009
Robert Miller
Miller's ZSpace page
This is a quote that I came up with about capitalism.
Bybee: Mass layoffs: social murder
Blog Post, September, 17 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
The human toll of mass unemployment is predictable--and horrifying.
Spannos: The Abstract for My Rethinking Marxism 2009 Panel Presentation
Blog Post, September, 13 2009
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The Abstract for My Rethinking Marxism 2009 Panel Presentation
Bybee: Merc pits workers vs workers
Blog Post, September, 10 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
Mercury Marine wins outrageous concessions from Fond du Lac workers plus state and local incentives to stay in Wisconsin, while Oklahoma workers lose jobs.
Rodriguez: Labor Day
Blog Post, September, 08 2009
Timothy Rodriguez
Reflecting on our bogus labor day holiday, while remembering the true achievements and aspirations of our labor movement.
Street: Every Day is Capital Day
Blog Post, September, 08 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The United States' "Labor Day" (yesterday) must have seemed ironic to the nation's expanding army of unemployed, ther vital human labor power deemed un-profitable and therefore unworthy of even minimal ransom-payment by the masters of capital.
Bybee: Can Trumka build on rank and file anger?
Blog Post, September, 07 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
Since WWII, the AFL-CIO lost more and more of its ability to inspire working people and build alliances outside labor. An articulate and relatively young Richard Trumka is stepping up to the presidency. Is he up to the challenges? Will he respond ...
Bybee: Mercury Marine's Master Manipulators
Blog Post, September, 01 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
Continuing coverage of the Mercury Marine shutdown, which will devastate Fond du Lac, Wis. This is from my In These Times Working blog, my twice-weekly blog on labor issues.
Ross: The new pyramid of the capitalist system
Blog Post, August, 29 2009
E. wayne Ross
Ross's ZSpace page
The new pyramid of the capitalist system
Bybee: Stopping plant shutdowns
Blog Post, August, 27 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
Reflections on 1980's successful battles in Racine, Wis. to block four plant closings. Essential to winning: a) A message to reach the community that explains that the corporation controls the community's fate b) Broad coalitions beyond labor...
Bybee: Mercury Marine torpedoes town
Blog Post, August, 24 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
My In These Times blog for Aug 25, on Mercury Marine's game of blackmail with its workers. Another Wisconsin town is being set up for economic and social devastation.
Sallustro: INNSE: quando la crisi e' solo una scusa.
Blog Post, August, 05 2009
Fabio Sallustro
Sallustro's ZSpace page
INNSE: quando la crisi e' solo una scusa.
Bybee: Paradigm shift:Job destruction
Blog Post, August, 04 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
Present-day capitalism is no long engaged in "creative destruction"--it's flat-out job-destroying destruction in search of maximum profits.
Bybee: Recessionary Shock Therapy
Blog Post, July, 28 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
Corporations are undercutting the stimuluys package with a renewed wave of mass layoffs, wage cuts, and plant closings, both threatened and real. Labor needs to re-focus resources at the grass-roots level to wage militant fights across the nat...
Bybee: What has crisis taught bankers?
Blog Post, July, 16 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
The deergulation-fueled growth of financial sector has drained real production in US, and has been accompanied by outsourcing of family-supporting US jobs. The outcome: 1/10 of 1% earn more than the bottom 50% of Americans, according to Les Leopol...
Stocker: Child Labour Day march in Bangladesh
Blog Post, June, 12 2009
Thomas Stocker
Stocker's ZSpace page
a brief outline of child labour in bangladesh, exploring the responsibilities of those involved in the practice.
Abu-jamal: Government for Whom?
Blog Post, May, 15 2009
Mumia Abu-jamal
Abu-jamal's ZSpace page
As the economy tumbles like weeds in an old western, companies are getting bailouts in the double digit billions, while workers are being asked to "sacrifice."
