A dubious immigration proposal
Senate Democratic leaders have presented an outline for an immigration reform bill, but many will find it wanting.
Bus stop holds life lessons
I do the "Park and Ride" thing, meaning I park my car at my daughter's high school visitor parking lot in the morning when I drop her off, and I catch the bus the rest of the way to work.
Want to become a day laborer?
Day labor status is being forced on more and more full-time American workers, whether they want it or not, and a new book tells precisely what it's like.
Answer to youth violence is jobs, not National Guard
I think it's absolutely ridiculous that two Illinois lawmakers are requesting to bring in the National Guard as a way to control youth violence.
Chomsky, fascism and the working class
Famed linguistics professor and left-wing icon Noam Chomsky made remarks recently that gave me pause.
Hidden from history: Communists and civil rights
Recently I've been watching reruns of Eyes on the Prize--the old PBS documentary about the history of the civil rights movement--and a thought keeps barging in that wasn't there when I first saw it back in 1987: Why doesn't the Communist Party get some air time in this program?
What can we bring to the table?
Instead of a box of candy, Communists and other left folks can bring to the people's coalition table some clarity on that much-bandied-about term: "middle class."
Price too high to pay
Anti-union attacks exact a price. That price was paid by more than two dozen workers in West Virginia. Too high a price to pay.
A rising tide of anger
Unemployment, hunger, 25 coalminers dead, yes, there is a rising tide of anger in the country.
Getting to a doctor versus romanticizing the revolution
I run a Communist YouTube channel for young people, and I'm noticing some of them are romanticizing revolution but forgetting about the working class - for example, on health care.
