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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
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
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
Cooke: Why UN Climate Agreements Fail
Dec 03, 2012
Ultimately, climate activists must come face to face with political and corporate power
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
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: 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
Benjamin: Egyptians Stand Up to President
Nov 29, 2012
“The ability of the Egyptian people to mobilize in this post-Mubarak era is astounding”
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
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
Swanson: Howard Zinn's Echoes
Nov 26, 2012
We can shape the future if, and only if, we make use of the past
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”
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?
Bond: Another Disgrace In Durban?
Nov 23, 2012
Are the BRICS ‘anti-imperialist’ – or instead, ‘sub-imperialist’, doing deputy-sheriff duty for global corporations?
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
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: “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
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
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
Dec 07, 2012
Michigan's Republican-dominated legislature on Thursday passed conservative, anti-worker, anti-women measures