
Walmart: The eyes of the nation are on you!
Gun control advocates massed at a Walmart store a few miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School to demand the company stop selling rifles.

Today in labor history: Steel Workers founded in Pittsburgh
Within a year of its inception, over 125,000 people had joined the union.

A tip for Joe the machinist: Watch your back
A Labor Day reflection: Corporate America no longer even pays lip service to the importance of encouraging hard work and skill.
Capitalism sucks, unless you are very very rich
Capitalism was good to the 74 wealthiest Americans whose pay was five times bigger than the previous year, while most working-class people were catching hell in the Great Recession.

Right-wing dead serious about killing minimum wage
The political right is implementing a multi-faceted strategy it hopes will push the country back to the days when there was absolutely no social safety net at all.

Alaska tea party candidate: a study in contradictions
Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller of Alaska has stirred up controversy recently. He is the Tea Party favorite, Palin backed, and it's no surprise that he believes everything the federal government provides is negative.
Closing the racial wealth gap
Racial wage gap between black and white workers is shrinking, but the all-class gap between black and white is growing.

Tax Policy and class struggle
Who pays taxes, the rich or poor, is an important party of the class struggle.

