Republicans
S&P “bond vigilantes” take aim – at us
August 8, 2011Standard and Poor's is a "bond vigilante" for the "investor class" - essentially a finance capitalist business agent with a big economic machine gun.
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Senator Sanders got it right
August 5, 2011The passage of the debt ceiling bill marks a dangerous moment for the workers movement in this country.
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A little debt-ceiling history, and a few suggestions
August 5, 2011It was a double "hostage crisis": The right enforced party discipline on the whole GOP and then made the Democrats negotiate on its own terms.
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Unions say “voter ID” is Jim Crow revisited
August 5, 2011The AFL-CIO is mapping plans to educate its members, other workers and the wider electorate in how to overcome efforts to suppress the right to vote.
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Right wing running scared in Wisconsin
August 5, 2011With the first big electoral test of whether organized labor can successfully push back at the polls against the radical right, it is apparent here that labor's opponents are running scared.
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