September 11, 2010 For thirty years, global and national economies have been guided by policies of neoliberal deregulation, often known as the “Washington Consensus.” Neoliberalism has been disastrous for workers in most countries, pitting workers against each other in a race to the bottom and making it all but impossible to protect working class… Read More »
LABOR: “THE GREAT UPHEAVAL” TODAY
July 21, 2010 This month is the anniversary of a long-forgotten landmark in American history, the “Great Upheaval” of July, 1877. It may be surprisingly relevant today. The Great Upheaval was a movement widely portrayed as a violent rebellion. In the midst of a national depression, and with unions decimated, railroad workers struck and… Read More »
WORKERS OF THE WORLD – COOL IT!
July 6, 2010 The meeting you probably heard about: At the end of June, leaders from the world’s richest and largest countries met in Toronto, Canada. As the global economy festered in its worst crisis since the 1930s, as poverty and unemployment tormented growing millions, as climate change devastated more and more people and… Read More »
WHAT THE CBO ISN’T TELLING CONGRESS: CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS MILLIONS OF JOBS
November 9, 2009 While fewer and fewer people are willing to publicly deny the validity of global warming science, those who oppose action to protect the climate have taken up a new strategy: Denying that climate change will have a major impact on the U.S. economy. This denial is rejected by most economists who… Read More »
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