Editors' Blog
Waiting for Mangabe or Slavoj Zizek on Mandela's Socialist Failure by Thomas Riggins
Waiting for Mangabe or Slavoj Zizek on Mandela's Socialist Failure
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that in 2011, median household income declined, the poverty rate was not statistically different from the previous year and the percentage of people without health insurance coverage decreased.
French Voters Dump the UMP, Left Romps in First Round of Legislative Ection
There is good news for France's new Socialist Party President, Francois Hollande.
Hollande and the French economy (part 1)
republished from Left Futures
Education Slowdown Threatens U.S.
The emerging train wreck of US Education is the surest sign that the crisis in US capitalism still underway is far deeper and more fundamental than a cyclical phenomenon. It suggests that, perhaps for the first time in US history, our society is not able to reproduce itself at a higher cultural or economic level.
Dennis Kucninch -- Bloice's Quote of the Day -- 11.30.11
Quote of the Day November 30, 2011
Why does the working class have to pay for Wall Street's crisis?
The international financial crisis of several years ago cost finance capital trillions of dollars, even though the US bailed them out with 15 to 20 trillion dollars (the same US that allegedly owes a big chunk of its national debt to the banksters it bailed out; shouldn't we have gotten a forgiveness of the "debt" we "owe" them ?) Even with the bailout there was a big loss to finance capital.
House Republicans vote to kill consumer protections
House Republicans this week voted to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a new federal agency that would help protect consumers from the kinds of financial schemes that led to the collapse of the financial system in 2007 and 2008.
Health reform and communities of color
Affordable Care Act Delivers Better Preventive Care to Communities of Color By Dr. L. Toni Lewis
Just some of the health benefits Republicans want to repeal
Under new Medicare provisions, retirees will get free annual check-ups, recommended preventive services, and new discounts on Rx drugs.
