Weekly Audit: Cheating workers and pampering CEOs
Low-wage workers are struggling to navigate the current recession. A new study conducted by a team of academics reveals that the majority of workers at the bottom of the economic ladder have been...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: problems for the public option
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium BloggerThe House released a final version of the health reform bill. It has a public option all right, but not the robust version progressives were hoping for....
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Weekly Diaspora: 200,000 March on DC, Call for Immigration Reform Now
By Erin Rosa, Media Consortium bloggerAs the health care debate comes to a close, there’s no better time to introduce comprehensiveimmigration reform. Hundreds of thousands of immigrant rights...
View ArticleWeekly Diaspora: Zero hour approaching for federal immigration reform
The countdown is on. Half a million supporters of comprehensive immigration reform rallied across the country on May 1 to protest SB 1070, Arizona’s prohibitive new anti-immigration law and ratchet up...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: #DearJohn, does banning abortion trump job growth?
With millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimating private abortion coverage and crippling public funding for abortion, as Jessica Arons reports in...
View ArticleWeekly Audit: A recall fight brewing in Wisconsin?
Tens of thousands of people continue their peaceful occupation of the Wisconsin state capital to protest a bill that would abolish most collective bargaining rights for public employees. As the...
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Women in the Middle East uprising
A focus on women's struggle for International Women's Day. News from Asia-Pacific. Interview with Melbourne-based Palestinian activist Reem Yunis about the role of women in West Asian uprisings.APC...
View ArticleWeekly Audit: Hostile takeover threat spurs concessions from Michigan unions
Michigan's new Emergency Manager Law is already forcing major concessions from unions. The law gives the governor the power to declare a city insolvent and appoint an emergency manager with virtually...
View ArticleWeekly Pulse: Florida governor wants to drug test all state employees
Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott plans to force public workers and welfare recipients to undergo random drug testing every three weeks. Why? Because he doesn't like either group, Cenk Uygur...
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Greenhouse gas emissions on the way down, but why?
nupge_logo_0.jpgGreenhouse gas emissions on the way down, but why? Does Harper's plan for emissions reduction include a permanent recession or a state of stunted manufacturing?
View ArticleThe New Union Project: From bureaucratic crisis to rank and file opportunity
This long weekend I sat down to read the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) final draft proposal for a new union. I must admit when I first heard about...
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Utopia and Program - 5th Annual International Convention of the Platypus...
April 5, 2013 - 1:00pm Join the Platypus Affiliated Society in considering how Program and Utopia relate to the Left today. "What possibilities might remain for a Left whose goal is no longer utopian,...
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Union activists killed in the Philippines
Labour news from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Tess Dioquino, vice-chairperson for international affairs with the KMU (the May First Labour Movement) in the Philippines, about the killing of...
View ArticleLabour creates wealth: Party founder says
Quick. Who said this?"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and...
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