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In 1905 representatives of 43 groups who opposed the policies of American Federation of Labour, formed the radical labour organisation, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW's goal was to promote worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class. Its motto was "an injury to one is an injury to all". Many unions refused to accept immigrant workers. This was especially a problem for Jewish and Irish immigrants. This was not true of the Industrial Work...

DEL REY OAKS - A local Safeway grocery store suspends a worker after he helped to save a woman's life. Del Rey Oaks Police said Ryan Young stopped a man from beating his pregnant girlfriend, and possibly saved her life. His actions may cost him his job....

The embedding of the market and the economy in civil society is the challenge of the 21st century. Tax shelters or havens must be closed. The wealthiest 400 Americans have more wealth than 150 million people. Time for Plan B, alternative economics, reduced working hours, labor-intensive investment, person-oriented work, community centers and infrastructure investment!...

Barely half a year after it burst on the scene, the Occupy Wall Street movement is splintering left and right. This was inevitable in a movement that was united only in what it opposed and could never put forward a positive program, whether of reformist "demands" on the capitalist state or of revolutionary action against it. Liberals, who latched onto Occupy hoping it could pressure the Democratic Party in a more populist direction, want to expel "black bloc" anarchists. Reformist social demo...

Democracy, risk and liability are turned upside down when trillions bailout the banks and workers, unemployed and pensioners must pay the bill! We live from those who say No to trivialization of crisis, to the state being reduced to a trough or errand boy for the banks (Bill Moyers). The economy should be a part of life, not a steamroller crushing creativity....

Democracy, risk and liability are turned upside down when trillions bailout the banks and workers, pensioners and unemployed must pay the bill. We live from those who say No to s corruption, to reducing the state to a trough or errand boy for the banks (Bill Moyers). The economy should be a part of life, not a steamroller crushing creativity and self-determination. The future should be anticipated and protected in the present, not extrapolated from the present....

On a cool, sunny spring, May Day 2012 in San Francisco, accompanied by labor and peace songs played by a brass band, and a labor picket line, circling the intersection of Montgomery and Market, artists painted a glorious yellow and red sun with the words in English and Spanish, Rise Up/Levantese and 99% in the center, and lots of slogans and words, including love, on the yellow and red flames around the sun. This mural still stood at 6 p.m....

100,000 people marched in Moscow for May Day, International Workers Day, a worldwide labor holiday except in the USA where it originated in 1886 in the struggle for the 8 hour day. Elsewhere in the world, thousands demonstrated for labor issues, including the 8 hour day....

1.) Golden Gate Bridge rally has been canceled, the golden gate labor coalition is asking people to instead go to the ferries to picket. 2.) A second mystery union on the bridge will have a press conference from a ferry picket line and announce a strike for May 2nd....

On May 1st, 2012, we will revive the May Day the ruling class has tried to erase; we will celebrate International Workers’ Day in the United States as a political manifestation of class consciousness and international solidarity....