Labor and the 2012 Election – Confidence Gained, Challenges ahead
Organized labor will be among President Barack Obama’s most determined supporters in 2012.
Crisis as the New Normal: The Economic Situation Today
Claims of recovery are not entirely empty. Let's look at them, before we examine, what kind of recovery and for whom?
Marxism in the Marketplace of Ideas
Capitalists' "free market" meant workers may be free to seek work, but are also "free" of the possessions (means of production) necessary to make a living.
It’s Not the S-Word, It’s the P-Word
In a capitalist economy that means maximizing profits. History bears out the fact that this role is often at the expense of citizens, since corporations are not beholden to them.
Book Review: Baghdad Mon Amour
From his imprisonment in Saddam Hussein's infamous prison fortress Abu Ghraib to his exile in France, the life and poetry of Salah Al Hamdani register a consistent defiance of tyranny and dictatorship, war and imperialism.
Why the Rich Get Richer, and Other Truth Stories
When you step back and look you see not one Truth but a gaggle of truth stories, some on totally different tracks, some conflicting with each other.
Human See, Human Do
Where does human prejudice come from? What causes one group of humans to dislike and look down on another?
Relationship Problems: Evaluating the Communist Party's 1st Annual Conference
These common uses of language left unexamined actually work against us when we are trying to organize.
Consequences of the Premature Socialization of Agriculture in the USSR
Communists need not regard the shift from a centrally planned socialist economy to a socialist-oriented market economy by China and Vietnam as a retreat from the path of socialist development.
