globalization
World labor leaders: Reject dictatorship of markets
June 23, 2010VANCOUVER, Canada - World labor leaders gathered here in the second congress of the International Trade Union Confederation are of one mind in rejecting the "Washington consensus."
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“Courage and solidarity” wins it for Rio Tinto miners
June 18, 2010The recent victory of workers at Rio Tinto's huge mine in the small town of Boron, tucked away in southern California's high desert, is a textbook case of how to win against a giant transnational corporation.
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What the economic conversation needs to be about
June 6, 2010The focus on "fiscal responsibility" conceals the real causes of the crisis, and if we don't address those we don't have a snowball's chance in hell of lifting workers out of the quicksand.
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“Workers of the world stuck together” and won at Hugo Boss
April 23, 2010Hugo Boss workers fought, and won: "We did it! We have our jobs!"
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Kyrgyzstan: A “free market” disaster
April 9, 2010The convulsions in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan have a lot less to do with the yearning for democracy there than they do with the aftermath of the World Trade Organization's forced "liberalization" of its...
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