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  • Patrick Martin , WSWS

    7 May 2012 Friday’s US jobless report, the most dismal so far this year, demonstrates the complete failure of the capitalist system to provide jobs for the unemployed. Nearly five years after the official beginning of the recession, and nearly four years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a... » read this article
  • Noam Chomsky , Huffington Post

    Editorial comment: "On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, anarchists, and ordinary workers combined to make the city the center of the national movement for an eight-hour day. ... Inspired by the American movement for a shorter workday, socialists and unionists around the world began celebrating May 1, or... » read this article
  • Patrick Martin , WSWS

    20 February 2012 President Barack Obama has taken credit for the record-setting profits of General Motors this week, after the largest US automaker reported it raked in $7.6 billion for 2011, the most ever, fueled largely by its North American operations, which accounted for $7.2 billion of the total. In... » read this article
  • James Petras. Axis of Logic. , Axis of Logic

    Editor's Comment: The iconoclast delivers another "uncomfortable" treatise that is guaranteed to shake if not demolish the feel-good assumptions of the Center-Left and Left who wishfully believe that capitalism is in crisis. Providing ample evidence he argues with impeccable logic that the capitalist ruling class used "a crisis of humanity"... » read this article
  • Linda McQuaig , StraightGoods.ca

    Thousands of Ontarians will likely sleep fitfully tonight, knowing their fate is in the hands of Don Drummond. Others will sleep like babies, knowing the powerful ex-banker can do them no harm. Drummond's long-awaited report, unveiled February 15 at Queen's Park, lays out a deficit-shrinking program of austerity that is... » read this article
  • Kate Randall , WSWS

    13 January 2012 Job cutting continues in the new year across a wide range of economic sectors in the US. Layoff announcements so far in January appear to follow last month’s trend, in which planned firings rose 31 percent over previous year figures. According to Chicago-based Challenger, Gray & Christmas,... » read this article
  • Dominic Rushe , AlterNet

    Chief executive pay has roared back after two years of stagnation and decline. America's top bosses enjoyed pay hikes of between 27 and 40% last year, according to the largest survey of US CEO pay. The dramatic bounceback comes as the latest government figures show wages for the majority of... » read this article
  • Immanuel Wallerstein , Canadian Dimension

    During the protests in Tahrir Square in November 2011, Mohamed Ali, age 20, responded to a journalist’s query as to why he was there: “We want social justice. Nothing more. That’s the least that we deserve.” The first round of the movements took multiple forms across the world—the so-called Arab... » read this article
  • Steve Russell , The Rag Blog

    "It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions of dollars every day but why make these bets affect the fellow who is plowing a field out in Claremore, Oklahoma?" My all time favorite Cherokee, Will Rogers, wrote that in 1924. Today, most of the fellows plowing fields... » read this article
  • Linda McQuaig , Toronto Star via StraightGoods.ca

    Occupy brings a new focus: Protesters moving us from the terror era to the income-inequality era. When thousands of Egyptian protesters took over Tahrir Square in events widely celebrated as the Arab Spring, I don't recall anyone being concerned that they were violating local bylaws. Of course, Egypt was a... » read this article
  • Elizabeth Clinton and Jason Netek. , Socialist Worker

    THERE HAS been no shortage of crocodile tears from the U.S. political establishment about the violence against protesters in Syria and Iran. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama have taken turns condemning the brutal suppression of movements for social justice in those countries. Of course, they had... » read this article
  • Armine Yalnizyan , StraightGoods.ca

    ... Here is what Occupy Wall Street could mean This is not the stuff of usual protests. Over the past month, a little idea from a Vancouver outfit has mushroomed into a cross-continent movement. Occupy Wall Street has already spread to 70 American cities and is going global as protestors... » read this article
  • Stefan Steinberg and Barry Grey , World Socialist Web Site

    Three years into the severest world economic crisis since the 1930s, stock markets around the world are once again tumbling as the capitalist system plunges into depression. In the wake of the September 2008 financial meltdown, governments injected trillions of dollars of public funds into the banks, robbing the state... » read this article
  • Bill Van Auken , World Socialist Web Site

    The Occupy Wall Street protest, now in its third week, has struck a powerful chord throughout the US, with similar occupations developing in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities and towns across the country. The demonstrators and their demand for social equality have given expression to the growing hostility... » read this article
  • Ulrich Rippert , World Socialist Web Site

    The elections to the Berlin House of Representatives (state legislature) on Sunday contain important political lessons for the working class worldwide. The elections were held in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. As was the case at the end of the Weimar Republic eighty years ago,... » read this article
  • Wall Street Rally , OperationLeakS

    Editorial comment: Don't miss Charlie Chaplin's wonderful speech in the 3rd video. It's remarkable how every word he's saying applies to the situation we are in today, even though he's addressing himself to the world from almost 60 years ago, after the near Nazi/fascist takeover of the world. So here... » read this article
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