Opinion
“We’re unemployed and we are united!” at Take Back the Capitol
December 19, 2011Those in Congress who are arrogantly playing politics with the lives of four million workers on extended unemployment compensation will not have a quiet moment.
Read more“Why Marx Was Right”: lively challenge to 10 myths
December 16, 2011Eagleton's bright, witty book marches forward into the usual stumbling blocks erected over the decades in the environment of popular ideology and topples them.
Read moreMr. Gingrich: Are there no Palestinians?
December 16, 2011"There are no Palestinians. There are Arabs who inhabit the State of Israel." These are your words, Mr. Gingrich.
Read moreMichigan warning: Republican extremism goes too far
December 16, 2011The attack on workers rights and democracy in Michigan is a warning for the nation.
Read moreLeo Fichtenbaum, lifelong drum major for justice, dies
December 15, 2011As a teenager and a member of the Young Communist League, he was active in the struggle to free the Scottsboro Boys and helped to organize the fur workers.
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