Government wage freeze — a bad idea
Obama announced his proposal for a two year wage freeze for all non-military government workers. The proposal is a terrible idea. It's bad for the economy and feeds into racist, anti-worker stereotypes of the "lazy" public worker.
Better read than dead: the Communist Manifesto and southwest Ohio
How could the Communist Manifesto, a 160-year-old book, have any relevance in explaining southwest Ohio labor's recent electoral defeat?
Unions — a reason to give thanks this Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a grand American holiday: secular, focused on family, food, friends, celebrating and giving.
Organized jobless: a powerful force
At few times in our nation's history has the cry for jobs - and the need to organize those doing the crying - been more apparent and more possible.
Constitutional amendment for right to work needed
Given the worst losses for the Democrats in Congress in the last 50 years, some serious rethinking seems called for.
Unemployed workers face the Grinch
As the holiday season approaches, it's Grinch time for unemployed workers and their families, thanks to congressional Republicans.
CPUSA leader: Vote and build the movement
Jarvis Tyner, national executive vice-chair CPUSA, spoke in Detroit recently on the need to for left and progressive minded people to help insure a huge voter turnout for the midterm election.
Poem of the week: Pat Mora's "Legal Alien"
This poem, "Legal Alien," captures an important quality of our evolving and emerging multi-national, multi racial and multi-ethnic culture.
Brown or Whitman? No contest
And it's a choice that should have national impact, given California's prominence as a pace-setting state.
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Unemployed Man!
Ultimatum, a superhero who fights negative attitudes with platitudes, ("Stop blaming others and start blaming yourself!"), runs afoul of his Board of Directors and becomes Unemployed Man.
