Labor

On the draft Iraqi Oil and Gas Law

July 24, 2007

To our great Iraqi people and the masses of the Iraqi working class: Iraq is rich with a variety of natural resources, in the forefront of which is the enormous oil wealth, that is the real...

EDITORIAL: America needs a break

July 20, 2007

It’s summer. The warm sun means you can put on shorts, pack your stuff and head off for a stretch at the beach, in the woods or at a resort hotel or maybe plan to have...

Iraq Inc.: Corporate hogs feed at war trough

July 20, 2007

Privatization, a strategy to eliminate public control over vital sectors of the economy, is nothing new. What is new, and perhaps more ominous, is that privatization has become the preferred method by which the Bush administration...

We need the Healthy Families Act

July 20, 2007

Worker's Correspondence Every day, hundreds of thousands of Americans who are really too sick to work trudge off to their jobs, in spite of their fevers, sore throats, headaches, sprains and strains. Hundreds of thousands of...

Trash, and solidarity, grow

July 20, 2007

OAKLAND, Calif. — As Waste Management of Alameda County’s lockout of nearly 500 union drivers entered its third week, mountains of garbage continued to grow in many parts of Oakland and neighboring communities. Solidarity with the...