Historic Levels of Inequality
The pundits always seem to miss the politics of capitalism in their effort to explain inequality. It looks like a new book by.
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The Coup in Brazil: What It Means for Workers
On May 11, more than two thirds of senators in Brazil voted to advance impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’.
- by Sean Purdy
- June 28, 2016
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Labor Archives and Research Center 30th Anniversary Celebration
Flyaway Productions, a Bay Area dance company, was commissioned by the Labor Archives and Research Center to create an aerial site-specific performance, choreographed.
- by Ryan Poe
- June 13, 2016
Activism
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Radical Leisure
Connections, both real and hoped for, between the labor movement and environmentalists have been news for at least fifteen years now. The possibility.
- by Eva Swidler
- June 9, 2016
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Working-Class Academics and Working-Class Studies: Still Far from Home?
Academe is a privileged place. It was designed to serve and continues to be dominated by people from educated, well-off backgrounds. Its hierarchical.
- by Sherry Linkon
- June 3, 2016
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Remembering the Last Great Strike this Memorial Day
On the afternoon of Memorial Day, 1937, at least 1,500 striking steel workers and their supporters marched across a sun-drenched field in the.
- by Ahmed White
- May 30, 2016
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Teaching Blog
Socialism in current K-12 textbooks: invisible & dismissed
For years now I’ve been showing students and friends the polls that show an increasingly favorable view of socialism especially among low income,.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 29, 2016
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The Easter Rising 100 years on: How the Irish revolution fired up American politics
On July 27, 1919, Marcus Garvey, the African-American nationalist then nearing the height of his influence, rose to address a crowd of almost.
- by David Brundage
- May 9, 2016
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When Socialists Won Elections (and Where)
Bernie Sanders has come close. And in doing so he has demonstrated that in 2016 the label democratic socialist is no longer a.
- by James Gregory
- May 5, 2016
Global Affairs Articles
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French Workers Fight to Maintain 35-Hour Work Week
French workers are fighting to maintain their 35 hour work week. Adopted in February of 2000, as part of the platform of France’s.
- by David Obringer
- March 23, 2016