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Philly labor hosts first ever “Workers’ Presidential Summit”

September 24, 2019 By Ben Sears

Last spring Pat Eiding, President of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Council, urged his members to start getting ready for the 2020 Presidential campaign.

Red Diaper Baby: Big Brother’s still watching you

September 23, 2019 By Ed Rampell

The world premiere of Leda Siskind’s thought-provoking, topical The Surveillance Trilogy is so perfectly timed.

DOL nominee Scalia promises to enforce labor law, but ducks policy

September 19, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

Despite the ducking, bobbing, and weaving, Scalia is on a fast track to sit in the Labor Secretary’s corner office.

Cuban reform: Overcoming the separation of economics and politics

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

The term “economism” has been used since Lenin’s time to characterize a situation of political prerogatives losing out to economic ones and of the resulting trouble for the working class. Cuba's reform process faces the same...

Lawmaker: African-Americans battle backlash to challenges to power structure

September 17, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

“Racism is dangerous, but race ignorance is dangerous, too.”