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Person Germanos: Right-To-Work Legislation Passes Michigan House
Dec 07, 2012

Michigan's Republican-dominated legislature on Thursday passed conservative, anti-worker, anti-women measures

75 Kagarlitsky: One Year of Protest Turbulence
Dec 06, 2012

we can speak of an end to turbulence only in the sense that we have passed through a particular phase of the crisis, one that will inevitably be followed by another

53 Bond: South Africa’s Sanitation Cesspools
Dec 05, 2012

What the dog’s-breakfast Durban Platform confirms, then, was global-elite back-slapping generosity to each other, simultaneous with rank incompetence and utter disregard for the poor and environment

Yearbook_pic Marom: Best Response To Disaster: Offense
Dec 04, 2012

We’re usually inclined to fight power when it is being carried out, but that’s often too late to stop it

Shamus-cooke Cooke: Why UN Climate Agreements Fail
Dec 03, 2012

Ultimately, climate activists must come face to face with political and corporate power

Leonidas Oikonomakis: Mexico Rising
Dec 02, 2012

The mass protests against Mexico’s new President are part of a global movement against the power of business and the farce of representative democracy

Person Hines: Privatizing Education Meets Resistance
Dec 01, 2012

Pressure to privatize public services and goods – and concerns about who stands to gain in the process - has become increasingly familiar in the United States

Hing Hing: School-to-Prison Pipeline
Nov 30, 2012

When schools want to discipline children, they do much more than just send them to the principal’s office. They call the police, who arrest children as young as 10 years old

Medea_benjamin Benjamin: Egyptians Stand Up to President
Nov 29, 2012

“The ability of the Egyptian people to mobilize in this post-Mubarak era is astounding”

Z Bradbury: When Postmasters Attack
Nov 28, 2012

Two years ago, there were 574,000 postal workers, not counting temps. This year only 533,000 are braving snow, rain, and gloom of night

Z Rugh: Struggles In Sandy’s Wake
Nov 27, 2012

A month after Frankenstorm Sandy struck, battle lines are beginning to be drawn in the wreckage along New York City’s shores

David_swanson Swanson: Howard Zinn's Echoes
Nov 26, 2012

We can shape the future if, and only if, we make use of the past

Z Martin: Solidarity for Tar Sands Blockade
Nov 25, 2012

"Today we rally to build a future where all people and the planet are healthy and thriving”

Shamus-cooke Cooke: Labor's Call to Action
Nov 24, 2012

The “grand bargain” threat is a call to action for organized labor. But will unions respond?

53 Bond: Another Disgrace In Durban?
Nov 23, 2012

Are the BRICS ‘anti-imperialist’ – or instead, ‘sub-imperialist’, doing deputy-sheriff duty for global corporations?

Person Laforge: Kangaroo Court for Weapons Critics
Nov 22, 2012

Three disarmament radicals that snuck into the Y-12 nuclear weapons complex last summer are preparing for their February 2013 trial

Person Maass: A System of Disasters
Nov 21, 2012

Interview on the natural and non-natural factors involved in Hurricane Sandy--and what shape New York and the East Coast will take in the aftermath of the super-storm

Rasmus Rasmus: “Predicting the ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Nov 20, 2012

The real economic program that would emerge post-election was being formulated and debated by the elites of both parties and their corporate benefactors

Person Olzen: Black Friday Strike At Walmart
Nov 19, 2012

Workers from both the retail and warehouse sectors of Walmart’s supply chain have called for nation-wide protests, strikes and actions

Z Slaughter: Social Security Swindle
Nov 18, 2012

If Congress and the President reach a “grand bargain” in the lame-duck session, seniors, the poor, and the disabled will pay for it—and it won’t be a good buy

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