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Workers & Labor
  • Carlos Jimenez , Yes Magazine

    A tough economy makes cross-race organizing more important than ever. I’m feeling relieved. For a while it seemed like the historic election of our first African American president would give legitimacy to the idea that we live in a “post-racial” America. The idea that race is no longer a part... » read this article
  • Ulrich Rippert , WSWS

    Editor's Note: The time has long since passed for workers to break from their union bosses who have served the corporate structure and sold out their members for the last century, no matter the cost. "The unions’ present role is the culmination of a long history. Already 100 years ago... » read this article
  • Wimal Perera , WSWS

    "... A Bangladeshi garment worker received only 22 US cents per hour, compared to 33 cents in Cambodia, 38 cents in Vietnam, 37 cents in Pakistan, 43 cents in Sri Lanka, 44 cents in Indonesia, 51 cents in India, 86 cents in China, $1.07 in the Philippines and $1.18 in... » read this article
  • Patrick Martin , WSWS

    1 March 2010 Inaction by the US Senate last week will result in the cutoff of extended unemployment benefits and COBRA health care coverage to more than one million workers. The cutoff, which began to take effect Sunday night, demonstrates the unbridgeable social gulf between the working class and the... » read this article
  • Danny Postel , Interfaith Worker Justice

    NATIONWIDE - February 19 - Miami-Dade County yesterday overwhelmingly passed the first county-wide ordinance in the country to combat wage theft, making it easier for workers to bring legal action against employers who fail to pay or underpay them. "This is momentous," said Jeanette Smith, Executive Director of South Florida... » read this article
  • Peter Schwarz , WSWS

    Editor's comment: The EU attack on Greece, now underway, is a prime example of how national borders and sovereignty have been erased by the European Union. Greece joined the European Union and on January 1, 1981 and surrendered its currency, drachmas, for the euro on January 1, 2001. According to... » read this article
  • Terry Cook , WSWS

    11 February 2010 Deputy Prime Minister and Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard has sent a clear message to business that the Rudd government will take whatever measures are needed to suppress any action by workers over jobs, wages and working conditions. Gillard last week announced amendments to Labor’s already draconian... » read this article
  • Tom Mellen , Morning Star (UK)

    (2 reports below) New death squads have arisen to replace Colombia's notorious right-wing paramilitary groups - and they are committing the same acts of terrorism against trade unionists as their predecessors, a prominent US-based rights organisation has warned. Under pressure from human rights groups and Washington, Bogota has overseen the... » read this article
  • International Socialist Organization of Seattle , Call to Action

    Why Militant Struggle? In a January 28 UW Daily article, Keep violence out for fairer budget Rebecca Kuensting attacks the International Socialist Organization (a UW registered student organization) for proposing “militant struggle” to oppose budget cuts and tuition increases. She feels that militant struggle must mean violence, or at least... » read this article
  • Shamus Cooke , Workers Compass

    Victory! Thousands of Oregon workers fought valiantly over the past weeks to ensure that corporations and the rich will see their taxes raised, so that social services, health care, and education could be saved. Massive phone banking operations, door-to-door canvassing, and rallies were used by union and community members to... » read this article
  • Marcus Morgan , WSWS

    25 January 2010 In Spain’s worst recession for more than 50 years, official figures for the end of 2009 show nearly 4 million people out of work. The official unemployment figure of 19.4 percent marks an increase of nearly 25 percent in a year. The recession has hit young workers... » read this article
  • Manuel Reichetseder , In Defense of Marxism

    The dramatic events that unfolded recently in the small southern Italian town of Rosarno highlight the terrible conditions that immigrant workers have to suffer in many parts of Europe. The bosses try and use the tactic of “divide and rule” to pit poor immigrant against poor Italian workers. It is... » read this article
  • Dietmar Henning , WSWS

    14 January 2010 For the first time in many years, Germany’s two biggest trade unions—the engineering union IG Metall and the Mines, Chemical and Energy union (IGBCE)—have agreed not to demand a wage increase in 2010. They justify their stance by claiming that due to the economic crisis, the protection... » read this article
  • Kent Paterson , Corp Watch

    For more than four years, Margarita Estrada assembled and tested computers at a Foxconn factory in the central Mexican city of Guadalajara. Preparing 120 CPUs an hour for shipping was a “stressful” job, the young woman says. Part of Estrada’s duties involved training the large numbers of new workers. Despite... » read this article
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World News
  • IRI destroys American Cyber war networks
    The Islamic Republic of Iran busted a spy racket linked with the US intelligence agency CIA and arrested 30 people for operating an internet network to gather secret data. In 2006, America's Central Intelligence Agency,...
  • Taboo Thwarts Candor on Israel/Iran
    Participants at an otherwise informative discussion on "Iran at a Crossroads" at the Senate on Wednesday seemed at pains to barricade the doors against the proverbial elephant being admitted into the room - in this...
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    Johannesburg – You see it the moment you walk off the plane: a mammoth soccer ball hanging from the ceiling of Johannesburg International Airport festooned with yellow banners that read, "2010 Let's Go! WORLD CUP!"...
  • Venezuela’s revolution achieves social gains
    A revolution makes a difference. For the corporate media, however, what happens to people's lives and dignity goes by the boards, focused as they often are on stories aimed at casting Venezuela as a pariah...
  • USRAEL: Tiff or Tipping Point?
    "Condemn" is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S. politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however objectionable, by Israel. So it was no surprise that close observers of...
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