The roots of the recent political upheaval in Bolivia, where months of crippling protests and roadblocks prompted the ousting of President Carlos Mesa on June 6, were in large part economic. For the protestors, mostly indigenous Andean miners, peasants and workers, their struggle was as much about regaining control over their previously privatized oil and gas industries as it was securing fair government representation.

When the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced yesterday an increase in payrolls by 146,000 for the month of June and a slight drop in the unemployment rate, the big media praised the growing economy. Unfortunately, robust job growth simply hasn’t returned to the US economy.

The rapid rise of China as a major actor in the global economy is provoking a reconsideration of whether free trade is still in America’s interest.

According to the watchdog group Public Citizen, White and his business partners are trying to secure funding for a project to produce energy from coal in Wyoming, specifically, “a $2.8 billion coal gasification project in Medicine Bow, Wyoming...Interestingly, though, there’s not a single reference to White’s tenure at Enron on his bio. Instead, White’s bio states that he “has 11 years experience in energy markets.”
So what’s he hiding?

Economists say that job growth per month must average around 140,000 just to keep up with the influx of new workers into the workforce each month. Average job creation during this economic recovery hasn’t kept pace.

We need a New Deal. Start by ending corruption and abuse of power by Republican congressional leaders. Repeal the rich tax cuts. End the $200 billion war on Iraq and bring our troops home.

"It is clear that the struggle against capitalist globalization and the struggle to eradicate slavery are one in the same.To combat slavery, stronger laws to protect laborers must be implemented..." .

U.S. workers and their unions should brace for higher unemployment and greater downward pressure on wages for the remainder of the year.

In times of continuing layoffs and stagnant job growth, when real wages have slipped year after year and corporations tell workers they have to give back more and more of their health benefits, take a little cut in the pay, and work a few extra hours, we find one group of people who seem to be doing just fine – CEOs.

Community activists are taking their campaign to tell the truth about Wal-Mart’s anti-worker, anti-community policies to Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Arkansas.

Here is a list of reasons why a proposed Wal-Mart should be kept out of our communities.

The US control three major financial institutions, The World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organisations (WTO) by various means to control the world economy.

A new USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll released Feb. 28, 56 percent of those surveyed disapproved of Bush's Social Security privatization plan.

The U.S. Department of Commerce today reported that the merchandise trade deficit reached a record level of $666.2 billion in the 2004, a 21.7% increase since 2003.

While the Bush administration says the U.S. economy is improving, those improvements are not reaching many of the country's working poor, a report from a U.S. mayors' group indicated.

George W. Bush's lack of concern for the federal deficit is fueled by his desire to bankrupt government services. Here his economic policies are satirically linked to his religious beliefs.

How did capitalism survive the economic crisis of the late 1990s to early 2002?

Weighing in on the dollar crisis, this writer describes currency as the main American export. What does this more for the global economy?

When the dust from the 2004 presidential election has cleared, the real legacy of the Bush administration will remain unchanged. That legacy is a military buildup that has drained the nation of money, jobs and productive capacity, and established the Department of Defense (DoD) as the largest business organization in the world.

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With the message "Give back our hard-earned money! Take back your overtime pay cut!," several thousand workers on Wednesday, October 5, delivered hundreds of thousands of postcards to the Bush/Cheney office headquarters in 17 battleground cities against the Bush overtime pay cut, even taking over their offices in several cities.

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