Phil Amadon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Phil Amadon
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Opinion
Senator Sanders got it right
August 5, 2011The passage of the debt ceiling bill marks a dangerous moment for the workers movement in this country.
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Opinion
Defending public radio and TV is a working-class issue
March 29, 2011The ultra-right leadership of the House of Representatives has decisively moved to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public radio and public television. They argue that "conservative taxpayers" should not have to "subsidize liberal media."
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Opinion
Better read than dead: the Communist Manifesto and southwest Ohio
November 29, 2010How could the Communist Manifesto, a 160-year-old book, have any relevance in explaining southwest Ohio labor's recent electoral defeat?
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Opinion
Amidst GOP tsunami in southwest Ohio, some stone-cold hope
November 3, 2010Key question: how can we, starting now, begin to tap the power necessary to throw out the ever-friendly, totally reactionary, Republican Rep. Steve Chabot and his pals in 2012?
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Opinion
Factory farms produce more than eggs
August 24, 2010In the early 1970s, I took a job at a brand new "industrial" hen house in Indiana.
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Opinion
Marxism, truth, lies and politics
July 29, 2010There are so many lies being churned out by the ultra-right corporate propaganda machine.
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Labor
Message to my fellow workers: China-bashing is a bad idea
July 23, 2010My union, the IAM, calls for a national industrial policy and massive investment in infrastructure - something China has actually done, not just talked about.
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Labor
Arkansas lesson: organize the South
June 14, 2010There was justice in organized labor's efforts to unseat Blanche Lincoln - but the real issue is the unfulfilled historic legacy of its plans to organize the South.
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