Economics
Economics is not morality play, but politics is
August 29, 2013For socialist and progressive working-class forces, breaking out of marginalization is the key political challenge of our time.
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“The Beast” claims six fatalities in Mexico train disaster
August 27, 2013The train was one of several Mexican and Central American immigrants call "la Bestia" -- "the beast." It goes from Southern Mexico northward to Mexico's Northern border with the United States.
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Lying about austerity serves “special interests”
June 25, 2013Ideas and ideologies are rarely if ever free from class interests. If there ever were a controversy that validated the truth of that, the continuing "debate" over austerity fills the bill.
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European Social Contract betrayed
June 11, 2013The austerity regimes imposed on the European working class have resulted in millions of working people rejecting the traditional mainstream capitalist parties .
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Red diaper babies at Tribeca and off Broadway
May 14, 2013The award-winning drama Finks is a fictionalized play by Joe Gilford based on the lives of his actor/comedian parents, Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford, who were victims of the McCarthy-era blacklist.
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