class struggle
Today in labor history: Chicago Haymarket affair
May 3, 2013Probably no single event has influenced the history of labor in the United States, and even the world, more than the Chicago Haymarket affair.
Read more“Solidarity Forever” completed Jan. 15, 1915
January 15, 2013On January 15, 1915 in Chicago there was a big march on City Hall by some 1,500 jobless and hungry people demanding relief.
Read moreFoxconn and socialism in China
March 14, 2012How can there be such abuses, and class conflicts, under socialism? Doesn't socialism promise and end to class conflict, and create a classless society?
Read moreOccupy’s 89%? Where anarchism shuns unionists, it allies with the ultra-right
March 7, 2012Anarchist collectives in the Occupy movement in Oakland and the Pacific Northwest have put forward a new slogan, "We are the 89%." This threatens to destroy any alliance between the Occupy movement and organized labor.
Read moreSix months after lockout, workers stage ‘back to work’ action at American Crystal Sugar
February 3, 2012The union's action came after the latest federal mediation session ended with American Crystal Sugar continuing to insist on its July 28, 2011 contract offer-which union members voted down 90-10 percent.
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