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NAFTA old and new — deals by the rich for the rich
June 20, 2019One percenters like Mick Mulvaney, self-dealing corporate honchos and fancy-pants corporate lobbyists negotiated the deals. Those fat cats claimed they spoke for labor. But when they opened their mouths, only the word profit emerged.
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Charles E. Ruthenberg: The first leader of the Communist Party USA
June 18, 2019At the time of his death in 1927, he was lauded as “one of the most indicted and imprisoned workers” in the history of the American labor movement.
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Battling ableism: Standing up for autistic rights on the job
June 17, 2019The false ideas that we can't make our own decisions, that medical treatment is the sole determiner of our success, and that we are prone to outbursts for petty reasons permeate society.
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Sanders, socialism, social democracy—What does it all mean?
June 14, 2019Marxists—practical and non-sectarian ones, anyway—don’t denigrate reforms, but they do think about them in a different way.
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Is socialism a more emotionally intelligent economy than capitalism?
June 13, 2019Have you ever noticed that we often talk about and even measure the effectiveness of our economy in emotional terms?
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