Overturning child labor laws: top priority for GOP
Republican operatives recently opened up a new front: rolling back child labor laws.
Video: "From Wisconsin to Washington, stand up for jobs, workers' rights and peace"
NEW YORK - The CPUSA held its First Annual Conference in New York City, today, April 16.
News flash: Americans aren't anti-worker
Polls have found Wisconsin Gov. Walker's union-busting tactics to be widely unpopular despite the major media's presumption that the opposite would be true.
To guarantee life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, tax the rich
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are rights written into the U.S. Declaration of Independence, to be pursued as goals for free citizens living in a democratic society.
After 64 years, still paying the price for Taft-Hartley
How did the landmark anti-labor legislation, backed at that time by Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon, come to be the law of the land?
It’s not just Wisconsin: a nationwide counteroffensive is emerging
It is fair to say a new phase of a struggle is afoot, in which labor and its allies could turn the tables decisively in their favor.
Will America ever wake up?
The middle class is being decimated and the working class is being punished. What will it take for America, real America, not the corporate entity we have become, to wake up and fight back?
Leonard Weinglass, defender of civil rights, dies
All lovers of human and civil rights were saddened last week to hear of the passing of the outstanding attorney Leonard Weinglass, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer on March 23.
Triangle fire: then and now
While walking through the Evergreen Cemetery recently, located in Ridgewood Brooklyn, I came across a section dedicated to eight unidentified young women who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire on March 25, 1911.
Is democracy inherent in socialism?
That's how it should be, but, as history teaches, socialism is democratic only if we make it so.
