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Digital picket line: Uber and Lyft drivers on strike today

May 8, 2019 By Cathy Bussewitz

Uber is expected to be worth $91 billion when its shares are listed on Wall Street Friday, but drivers say pay is on the decline.

Scam artist Trump conned the working class

February 22, 2019 By Marc Dann

Working-class voters were hoodwinked first by Bill Clinton and then by Barack Obama. Their con games left blue-collar voters ready to fall.

New U.S. economic attack against Cuba may hit soon

January 18, 2019 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Cuba’s economy continues to lag, as indicated by low rates of growth – 1.2 percent in 2018, necessity to import 80 percent of its food, difficulties in repaying loans, etc.

Reminder: U.S. also employs state of national emergency against socialist Cuba

January 15, 2019 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Cuba’s 2019 budget dedicates 51 percent of its outlay to paying education and health care costs.

Millions to strike across India against Modi’s neoliberal economic crisis

January 7, 2019 By Morning Star

“Public-sector employees, unorganized sector workers, port and dock workers and bank and insurance employees are going to observe the nationwide protest against the growing economic crisis, price rises and acute unemployment.”