Economics
Maduro: Brics summit will change the world order
July 17, 2014Brics creating a development bank with $100 billion starting capital using local currencies instead of U.S. dollar.
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Communists in convention: What our mission is and isn’t
July 1, 2014A section of the keynote to the Communist Party USA 30th National Convention, June 13-15, 2014. It was delivered on the convention's opening day by outgoing National Chair Sam Webb.
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Most new jobs are low wage, report shows
May 2, 2014There are nearly two million fewer jobs in mid- and higher-wage industries than there were before the recession took hold, while there are 1.85 million more jobs in lower-wage industries.
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Marxist economist Richard Wolff draws overflow crowds
February 4, 2014They flocked to hear the unapologetically self-avowed "Marxian economist" who has long toiled in the obscurity of academia and left circles.
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Prolific science fiction writer Frederik Pohl dead at 93
September 4, 2013Author Frederik Pohl, who over decades gained a reputation of being a literate and sophisticated writer of science fiction and a supporter of progressive causes, has died.
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