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Bacon: Unions Need Unity
Znet Article, January, 15 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
Twelve unions met in Washington, DC, last week and announced they're considering rejoining the two labor federations, the American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Change to Win (CTW), which split apart five y...
Baker: Redefining Chutzpah: Wall Street Goes After Social Security, Again
Znet Article, January, 14 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Many people, most notably investment banker and Concord Coalition founder Peter Peterson, have questioned the solvency of Social Security based on the fact that its trust fund is held in U.S. government bonds. Peterson and others derisively refer ...
Raina: Satyam
Znet Article, January, 13 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The “breaking news†now is that the global machismo of India’s corporates has indeed arrived at those pinnacles of fraud without which no corporate prowess may be taken seriously, much like the street-corner temple that only the neighbourhoo...
Monbiot: Shell's Game
Commentary, January, 12 2009
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Why good people do bad things...
Fletcher jr.: Labor leader to Obama: "We have your back; we will not let you back up!"
Commentary, January, 10 2009
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
The president of the Maryland and DC AFL-CIO, Fred Mason, had an idea. Following the electoral victory of Barack Obama he found himself perplexed by the enthusiastic, yet very unfocused, response of organized labor as to what should happen next. ...
Baker: Free Market Myth
Znet Article, January, 06 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Regulation is everywhere. Let's choose who benefits.
Weissman: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
Commentary, January, 03 2009
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
What a year for corporate criminality and malfeasance!
Petersen: Can We Agree
Blog Post, December, 31 2008
Robert Petersen
Petersen's ZSpace page
If the left can agree on anything, we should agree that we need a national discussion about alternatives.
Spannos: Greek Uprising, Echoes of Castoriadis: 1968, Autonomy & the Self-Managed Society
Commentary, December, 31 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Inspired by the recent Greek rebellion, I am reminded of the Late Greek/French theorist of Autonomy and Self-Management, Cornelius Castoriadis...
Hunt: Hope for FedEX workers
Blog Post, December, 31 2008
Steve Hunt
Hunt's ZSpace page
FedEX workers were told a few days before Christmas that their 401k match was being taken away for '09. I have a sensible plan that could reverse their plan to do this which would be good for everyone.
Szczepanczyk: From the better-late-than-never department: CAPES and APPS meetup in Austin
Blog Post, December, 30 2008
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
A report back of an October 2008 face-to-face meeting between members of CAPES (the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society) and APPS (the Austin Project for a Participatory Society).
Schubart: A few Reflections on the Old and New Year
Blog Post, December, 29 2008
Dan Schubart
Schubart's ZSpace page
It's increasingly clear that the signs are in front of us, and more of the same shenanigans won't help anyone in the long run.
Danforth: Il Parabrezza (The Windshield) Post 7
Blog Post, December, 28 2008
David Danforth
Danforth's ZSpace page
The driver arrives at his truck stop, learns of its closing, and wonders how it might be pareconned.
Scipes: Labor, Empire and Globalization: An Extended Review of Solidarity Divided
BookReview, December, 27 2008
Kim Scipes
Scipes's ZSpace page
An extended review...
Aronowitz: Facing the Economic Crisis
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Stanley Aronowitz
Aronowitz's ZSpace page
The main news these days is the global economic crisis, an event ascribed by economists and most pundits alike to a "financial" meltdown caused by the irresponsibility of mainly, but not exclusively, U.S. lending institutions and consumers in offe...
Bond: End of neoliberalism? Sorry, not yet.
Commentary, December, 24 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Those who declare that the Great Crash of Late 2008 heralds the end of free market economic philosophy - "neoliberalism" for short - are not paying close enough attention.
Dangl: Finding Common Ground in Crisis: Social Movements in South America and the US
Commentary, December, 20 2008
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
People in the US seeking ways to confront the economic crisis could follow the lead of South American social movements. From Argentina to Venezuela, many movements have won victories against the same systems of corporate greed and political corrup...
Fletcher jr.: The United Auto Workers Must Fight Back!
Commentary, December, 19 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
When I awoke on Friday morning, December 12th, I turned on my computer. The first thing I saw was that the deal being worked on in the Senate to provide the automobile companies with loans had fallen through. The explanation offered on MSN: the Un...
Spannos: Capitalism's Crisis: Elites Play with Class War
Commentary, December, 14 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Capitalism's current crisis is not the same as the crisis called capitalism. The former was caused by elite efforts to free themselves from constraints on profit making, which not only worsened material conditions for millions of people, but jeopa...
Meister: Eighty-Hour Workweeks! Thirty-Hour Workdays!
Znet Article, December, 13 2008
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
It's way past time for Congress to come to the aid of the medical residents who are among our most important providers of hospital care. The young doctors-in-training are being forced to work 80 hours a week, often as long as 30 hours in a single ...
