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The Rebirth of Economic Thinking from the Ashes of the Crisis Reagan announced the state was "the problem" for the functioning of the economy. State action could not solve economic problems. The latest reality of economic crises thoroughly destroyed the neoclassical theses. The crisis showed its ideological limitation and conditionality....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2010 7:06am PDT
California Governor’s Race: Democrats, Republicans and Socialists Take on Meg Whitman Last month, Goldman Sachs was hit with fraud and corruption charges by the SEC and top board members of the Wall Street financial giant had to testify before Congress. Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner has been exposing Whitman’s ties to Goldman Sachs while many Democrats, unions, labor groups and concerned citizens are demanding that Whitman share her involvement in the Goldman Sachs scandal; Whitman has remained silent....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2010 12:22pm PDT
Work- and Social Criticism in the Time of Capitalist Running Amok The term social undergoes a fundamental change of meaning. Earlier social described an obligation of society to its members. Today the little word social stands for the caring duty of members of society toward the capitalist mega-machine. The brave new market economy only recognizes what can be bought and sold as socially valid....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2010 5:45am PDT
WNU #1032: Haitians Protest “Emergency Law” Two of the coalition’s most prominent spokespersons are longtime opponents. René Civil is the leader of the militantly pro-Aristide Popular Power Youth (JPP), while former radio commentator and Port-au-Prince mayor Evans Paul (“K-Plim”), a leader of the Democratic Unity Committee (KID), worked to drive Aristide from office in 2004....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2010 8:48am PDT
Emergency Brake for Speculators The private indebtedness brought about by unscrupulous financial managers mainly in the US was almost completely transferred to state budgets....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2010 7:25am PDT
Video Daniel Berman On Pfizer Molecular Biologist Becky McClain Case Author Daniel Berman talks about the case of Becky McClain who was a Pfizer molecular biologist fired for making health and safety complaints....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2010 4:56pm PDT
SEIU 1021 3rd VP Larry Bradshaw In Detroit Reports on SF City Negotiations SEIU 1021 3rd VP Larry Bradshaw at the 2010 April Labor Notes conference reports on negotiations with the City of SF and the state of the union....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2010 7:29pm PDT
Memorandums on Alternative Economic Policy The social state, solidarity, sharing and social justice open doors while neoliberal deregulation leads to exploding inequality, generalized insecurity and disappearance of public spirit....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2010 6:51am PDT
Oakland Education Association votes to keep up the heat The Oakland Education Association voted on Monday to authorize its Executive Board to take actions up to and including an extended strike in its contract negotiations with the district....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2010 7:01pm PDT
Raley's / Nob Hill Supermarkets Busted ! In this morning's newspaper I ran across a very interesting and disturbing article concerning a very large Supermarket Chain operating throughout Northern California....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2010 11:28am PDT
Ignoring the Grassroots in Latin America Our independent media tend to ignore grassroots struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean until something happens that gets them covered by NPR or the New York Times....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2010 10:05am PDT
VIDEO: Supreme Power-Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court The state can and must create jobs when the private sector is corrupted, fears for the future and speculates on foreign currencies....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2010 6:24am PDT
UFCW's Hide the Weenie LM2 Nut Shell Game Most of us older folks probably remember going to a fair or carnival and seeing the seedy character taking peoples money while playing the nut shell game...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2010 6:36am PDT
Greenspan and the Guilt of Others Before the committee, Greenspan immediately went on the offensive (cf. Creole trick). The irresponsible loans of banks caused the crisis, not the low interest of the Federal Reserve. The Fed failed in regulating the banks because its employees were not neutral. The Fed failed to limit deceptive awarding of credit - although it had the power to do that....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2010 2:45pm PDT
Eve of May Day 2010 The Second American Revolution Has Begun April 30, 2010, the eve of May Day, is Victory in Vietnam Day, 35 years ago, when the little people in black pajamas defeated the mightiest death machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany, the United States. The American death machine is now poisoning the earth worldwide and can only be stopped by a united workingclass ready to eliminate the profit motive that is the cause of war. That struggle has begun in the US in the form of the fight for public school education as we cannot have gu...
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2010 6:54am PDT
Schwarzenegger's North Central MLPA Closures Begin May 1 Twenty-one marine protected areas (MPAs) - dubbed "Marine Poaching Areas" by many game wardens because of the lack of enforcement staff to patrol new reserves - will take effect May 1, 2010 along California's north central coast....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 8:45am PDT
KPFA Workers & Community Step Up, GM "Resigns": Politics of the Latest Management Change The departure of KPFA General Manager Lemlem Rijio was an open secret debated prior to the public announcement and a News commentary on her "resignation." A group of staff and supporters had campaigned to reverse the Local Station Board's supposed termination vote in a confidential executive session. Their talking points are summarized and addressed here. Other KPFA workers and community members stated that removing the GM was necessary to correct the station's deteriorating finances and decl...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 7:42am PDT
For a Proletarian and Communist May 1st! Workers!
The general conditions of life and work have been deteriorating for years, becoming ever more intolerable...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 7:35am PDT
Labor Leadership covering for the Democrats again They're all linked to Goldman stupid Do they honestly expect us to believe this campaign isn't linked to the Democratic Party Candidate?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2010 8:21pm PDT
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