August 8, 2010 Jeremy Brecher responds to Murray Bookchin’s critical response of Brecher’s review of Bookchin’s book. Phew! Root & Branch No. 4 (1973), pp. 30-31 We all face the same problem of getting from the kind of society we have to the kind of society we want. I had hoped that Murray would… 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 »
CALIFORNIA STEAMIN’
June 10, 2010 “The California Jobs Initiative.” Sounds like a good idea. After all, California’s unemployment rate is now over twelve percent. But there’s something a little funny here. Turns out that the main financial backers of the “California Jobs Initiative” are a bunch of oilmen from Texas. Texas-based Valero Energy Corporation gave a… Read More »
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