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The Myth of the “Fiscal Crisis”
The first step that must be taken if we are to reverse the cuts and prevent the destruction of the New Deal’s gains is to understand in our own minds that there is no fiscal crisis....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 9:29am PDT
Pupl strike causing national emergency threath
Finland’s Paper Union has been having and still is having a strike at the moment. The strike is causing severe damage to labor buttocks....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 11:49pm PDT
What path toward an independent workers movement? (re Million Workers March)
A leaflet of the Communist Voice Organization presented at the Detroit Conference of the Million Workers March held May 14-5. The leaflet opposes the alliance with certain Detroit city council members and union bureaucrats that has developed within the Detroit organization of MWM and opposes the same policy nationally....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 9:37pm PDT
The Wal-Mart Museum of Art
Los Angeles artist, Mark Vallen, writes on his Art For A Change web log: "There is no better example of how politics is intertwined with art than the spectacle of an art museum being founded by a rapacious corporation well known for exporting US jobs overseas and profiting from foreign sweat shop labor."...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 11:42am PDT
Photos from Gigantic May Day March in Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2005
Photos of the May Day march in Caracas, Venezuela organized by Unidad Nacionale de Trabajadores (UNT) in support of the government of President Hugo Chavez Frias.
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Posted: Sat, May 14, 2005 3:00am PDT
Gigantic May Day March Rocks Caracas
Two May Day marches highlighted the growing role and power of workers in Venezuela. One was immense and jubilant - yet another sign of the enormous support enjoyed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias. The other was far smaller and more somber, yet still showed that determined opposition to President Chavez is not exclusive to the rich....
Posted: Sat, May 14, 2005 1:44am PDT
Americans Join Together to Demand Wal-Mart Change
51 Members of Congress and 21,788 Americans Join Together to Demand Wal-Mart Change; Political, Grassroots Pressure on Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart, to End Discrimination at Wal-Mart Grows...
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 1:22pm PDT
May Day 2005
May Day is an international day of worker solidarity and anti-capitalist struggle, which began in the United States and became international in response to the repression of Chicago anarchists and eight-hour work day movement in the 1880s....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 3:20pm PDT
5/1-8 This Week is Cover the Uninsured Week
41% of Uninsured Adults Unable to See a Doctor When Needed Due to Cost...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 10:55pm PDT
Spring rebellions show student-workers, unions and community a potent force
Although carefully concealed or downplayed by the big business media, burgeoning campus rebellions and related struggles are rising to a fever pitch across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and elsewhere....
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 5:54pm PDT
Industry without Happiness: On the Guaranteed Minimum Income
A basic income could heal our fragmented society caught in work fanaticism and work fetishism while work disappears..A basic income could change social attitudes and goals and give real meaning to the human rights to life and participation....
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 7:16am PDT
Yale, Columbia, UMass Amherst grad students fight back
Graduate student-workers and their allies at three of the biggest universities in the Northeast are engaging in massive, spirited work actions this week, April 18-22....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 7:17pm PDT
AgJOBS Stopped for Now
AgJOBS will not be voted on as an amendment to the supplemental appropriations bill. Many Senators preferred not to include AgJOBS and other immigration amendments on the appropriations bill....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 2:25pm PDT
May Day, 60th V-E Day, 60th Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day, 30th Victory in Vietnam Day
As May Day, International Workers Day, May 1, approaches, this year being on a Sunday with larger than usual celebrations and renewals of commitment to the struggle, this year we also commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps and Victory in Europe on May 8, the 30th Anniversary of the Victory of the Workingclass of the World in Vietnam on April 30, 1975 and the 60th Anniversary of the first act of the Cold War, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 and ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 18, 2005 1:10am PDT
Update from Zanon workers in Argentina
Over the last week, the workers of the
Zanon factory in Argentina have received numerous death threats. The
wife of a worker was kidnapped, had her face and chest slashed, and was
threatened various times  all in the face of police and governmental
indifference....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 2:47am PDT
UC San Diego Strike on 4/14/05
UC San Diego witnessed 1000 strikers and 300 at a solidarity rally today, April 14, 2005 in a long overdue labor action at all 9 University of California campuses and other UC facilities....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 7:01pm PDT
Smithfield Packing Guilty of Threatening, Physically Assaulting Workers
UFCW: Smithfield Packing Guilty of Threatening, Physically Assaulting Workers - Again; Company Police Force Instigate Plant Riot in Assault on Workers; NLRB Orders Reinstatement of Workers, Payment of Lost Wages...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 12:38am PDT
Food and Commercial Workers File Charge Against Wal-Mart on Coughlin 'Union Project'
Food and Commercial Workers File Charge Against Wal-Mart on Coughlin 'Union Project'; UFCW Calls on the NLRB to Aggressively Investigate Whether Wal-Mart Bribed Employees to Suppress Worker Support for Union Representation...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:03am PDT
Rhizome Collective Interview on In "The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 16.6MB)
Interview on February 1, 2005 with Scott Kellog from Rhizome Collective in Austin, Texas an educational collective that promotes permaculture and sustainable living, projects include Center for Community Organizing, Center for Urban Sustainability, an after school program and a brownfield restoration project. (Part 1 of the special 2 hour show; AK Press interview follows in second hour)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 5:51pm PDT