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Standing Up for Working Families in Wisconsin and Everywhere
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, Wisconsin Solidarity Rally in Trenton, New JerseyFebruary 25, 2011Thank you, Arlyn [Halvorson] and Susan [Blaustein], for your courage for igniting the...
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EPA Moves to Regulate Carbon Dioxide, Holds Atlanta Hearing
Original source: The Atlanta Progressive New ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb 24, 2011 (IPS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun the initial stages of a process that may lead to the federal...
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Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet
Some years ago in New England, a group of environmentalists asked a corporate executive how his company (a paper mill) could justify dumping its raw industrial effluent into a nearby river. The...
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The Unity of Public Workers and Those They Serve
"You are winning the super-bowl of workers rights," Jesse Jackson told 60 thousand workers, families and citizens in Madison, Wisconsin last week. It will strike some as extremely odd that Wisconsin...
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Does Natural Gas Have Positive Environmental Impacts?
EarthTalk® E - The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I heard someone say that the environmental benefits of natural gas for electricity generation were overstated and that it is not as...
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The Attack on Planned Parenthood: Part of a Long Reactionary Tradition
Original source: Diary of a Heartland RadicalVijay Prashad, in his fascinating book, The Darker Nations, traced the rise and subsequent demise of the Third World Project from the 1950s to the 1980s....
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Barring the Bavarian Baron
This time the handsome young knight in shining armor lost the tilting match. Some Germans grieved, others cheered, not a few laughed with that happy joy at other’s loss called Schadenfreude. The...
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Middle East: "Progressive change is possible"
Final Statement Issued by the Exceptional Meeting of the Arab Left Forum The Tasks of the Arab Left during the Current Social Revolutions and the Steps for the Confrontation of the Imperial-Israeli...
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The World Food Crisis
While the advanced capitalist countries are hit by an acute crisis of recession and unemployment, the developing world is facing, apart from the fall-out of this crisis, an acute food crisis. Hunger...
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Badgering the Republican Right in Wisconsin
After rewarding his corporate supporters with a $117 million tax break, Wisconsin's newly-elected Tea Party Governor, Scott Walker, manufactured a $137 million budget shortfall in order to go after...
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New Jersey Rallies to Support Wisconsin Workers
Friday, Feb. 25, was a rainy day here in New Jersey. But it didn’t deter thousands of trade unionists from rallying in front of the state capital in Trenton in solidarity with the public workers of...
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Imperialism 2011: Steps Going Forward
This essay is presented in the interests of analysis and discussion of tendencies in the international communist movement. Its focus is the issue of imperialism and anti-imperialism. It represents the...
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Climate Change and the Growing Food Crisis
Original source: The Guardian (Australia) Australia in recent years has witnessed several extreme weather events from the droughts and floods in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia...
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Frederick Engels and Eugen Dühring on the Natural Laws of Economics and...
Engels deals with Dühring's views on ground rent and the natural laws of economics in chapter nine of part two ("Political Economy") of his famous book "Anti-Dühring." Dühring claims that his theories...
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Podcast: Racial Segregation in American Cities
On this episode we play the second part of our interview with historian and author Luther Adams on his new book, Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970....
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Organizational Rubric, Power and Relevance: A hard Look At a Proud Organization
I’ve read with interest over the past few months the numerous articles that have become the “What’s in a name?” discussion. I think all of the articles have displayed a high-level of integrity and...
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Book Review: Social Ethics in the Making
Social Ethics in the Making. Interpreting an American Tradition, By Dorrien, Gary, New York, Wiley-Blackwell, hardback, (2008), paperback edition (2011).In the dog-eat-dog late 19th century world of...
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Where are "The People"?
“People’s congresses and people’s committees represent the end result of people’s struggle for democracy.”Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi, The Green BookThe people have spoken. We just don’t know what they...
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Marxism and Science
In his recent article "A Party of Socialism in the 21st Century," Sam Webb made the following seemingly innocent and obvious statement: "Marxism is a scientifically grounded mode of analysis, compass...
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Organizational Rubric, Power and Relevance: A Close Look At a Proud Organization
I’ve read with interest over the past few months the numerous articles that have become the “What’s in a name?” discussion. I think all of the articles have displayed a high-level of integrity and...
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