Hair-raising display at CPAC
The 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference, which took place this past weekend, showed the nation two things: the right-wing fringe, while still small, has become more activist and, secondly, it has become even more extreme. It was more than tinged with fascist ideology. The conference embraced it.
Message from Greece
The economic crisis in Greece has lessons for American workers on taxes, immigrant rights and more.
African American equality and immigrant rights: united we stand
All workers have a big stake in fight for immigrant rights and should reject those who are trying to use that issue to drive a wedge between people -- black, brown and white.
Not everybody is on same page
On the political left, two distinct and competing trends have taken shape in the course of the first year of the Obama presidency.
China Is NOT a ‘rogue nation’
Heading off into an anti-China campaign will not help the progressive cause or solve our economic crisis.
Tax Policy and class struggle
Who pays taxes, the rich or poor, is an important party of the class struggle.
Ultra-right has not been decisively defeated
We number thousands in a country of hundreds of millions. Our specific role has to be to build a movement of tens of millions by providing clear thinking on strategy and tactics .
A blizzard of nonsense
Despite right-wingers' igloo jokes, more snow is actually more proof of global warming.
Capitalist hypocrisy and Eastern European anti-communism
There is a new push in the Czech Republic to bar the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia from running candidates for public office or otherwise functioning like other political parties.
The background behind Toyota recall
The underlying cause, says a Japanese labor researcher, is the company's stress on "low cost" in pursuit of high profits, at the expense of its workers and consumer safety.
