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May Day, a great time to discuss labor unity

May Day is a great time to think about labor unity. It is not a static thing. Labor does not “arrive” at a final place called “unity.” Labor unity, like the broader fight for working class...

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School has no heat! I opened the Denver Post to see a shivering child’s picture on the front page. She was from a small K-12 school in Silverton, Colo., where winter temperatures often drop below zero....

Coops and the global financial crisis

Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. ILO Online spoke with Hagen Henry, chief of the ILO’s Cooperatives Branch. The ILO is the International Labor Organization, created...

WORLDNOTES – Venezuela, Greece, Japan, Iraq and Cuba

Venezuela: ALBA poses alternatives The 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) met April 15-17 in Venezuela. Member nations Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Dominica and Honduras fashioned a declaration aimed...