New Yorkers play their part in national upsurge
The New York labor movement and its allies are playing an important role in the national upsurge against GOP bills targeting public workers but more broad unity and support is needed to advance progress.
Jobs and the 2012 election
The GOP has awakened a working-class giant, which is standing front and center and declaring proudly, "We are one nation."
Your mailman talks about St. Patrick’s Day and workers who vote Republican
St. Patrick's Day marks the 41st anniversary of the Great Postal Strike of 1970. The key to our dismal conditions then was this: we had no collective bargaining rights.
Teachers need strong unions
Teachers need the firm right to collective bargaining no less than Wisconsin's other public employees, no less than the public employees of every other state.
Capitalist insolence and taxes
Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citigroup were all deeply involved in the sub-prime mortgage crisis, which prompted the Great Recession and the huge budget deficits. And they pay no taxes.
Republicans should get their story straight
The right wing, in its assault on working people, is full of contradictory statements.
Reflections on Friday's protest in Madison
The aches in my bones from yesterday's rally in Madison, Wisconsin, were welcomed aches.
Black unemployment, working class unity
The 1930s slogan, "Black and white, unite and fight." is relevant today. General appeals for jobs and relief, for public works jobs and full employment measures have to be combined with targeted job creation in communities where the hardship is the most severe.
16,000 marched on Wisconsin's capital fighting for democracy
A country's attitude toward its unions is a good measure of their attitude toward democracy - their real attitude toward true democracy.
Reagan celebration: No mugs on Mount Rushmore, please
We are now celebrating the anniversary of Ronald Reagan, who, if the corporate press is anything to go by, came down from heaven exactly 100 years ago to save us all.
