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Workers & Labor
  • Tom Mellen , Morning Star (UK)

    (2 reports below) New death squads have arisen to replace Colombia's notorious right-wing paramilitary groups - and they are committing the same acts of terrorism against trade unionists as their predecessors, a prominent US-based rights organisation has warned. Under pressure from human rights groups and Washington, Bogota has overseen the... » read this article
  • International Socialist Organization of Seattle , Call to Action

    Why Militant Struggle? In a January 28 UW Daily article, Keep violence out for fairer budget Rebecca Kuensting attacks the International Socialist Organization (a UW registered student organization) for proposing “militant struggle” to oppose budget cuts and tuition increases. She feels that militant struggle must mean violence, or at least... » read this article
  • Shamus Cooke , Workers Compass

    Victory! Thousands of Oregon workers fought valiantly over the past weeks to ensure that corporations and the rich will see their taxes raised, so that social services, health care, and education could be saved. Massive phone banking operations, door-to-door canvassing, and rallies were used by union and community members to... » read this article
  • Marcus Morgan , WSWS

    25 January 2010 In Spain’s worst recession for more than 50 years, official figures for the end of 2009 show nearly 4 million people out of work. The official unemployment figure of 19.4 percent marks an increase of nearly 25 percent in a year. The recession has hit young workers... » read this article
  • Manuel Reichetseder , In Defense of Marxism

    The dramatic events that unfolded recently in the small southern Italian town of Rosarno highlight the terrible conditions that immigrant workers have to suffer in many parts of Europe. The bosses try and use the tactic of “divide and rule” to pit poor immigrant against poor Italian workers. It is... » read this article
  • Dietmar Henning , WSWS

    14 January 2010 For the first time in many years, Germany’s two biggest trade unions—the engineering union IG Metall and the Mines, Chemical and Energy union (IGBCE)—have agreed not to demand a wage increase in 2010. They justify their stance by claiming that due to the economic crisis, the protection... » read this article
  • Kent Paterson , Corp Watch

    For more than four years, Margarita Estrada assembled and tested computers at a Foxconn factory in the central Mexican city of Guadalajara. Preparing 120 CPUs an hour for shipping was a “stressful” job, the young woman says. Part of Estrada’s duties involved training the large numbers of new workers. Despite... » read this article
  • John Wojcik , People's World

    Fearing that labor and progressive groups will soon shift much of their focus from health care reform to a bill that would expand union organizing rights, retailers across the country are stepping up their anti-union campaigns. A revised training video showing now at Target Corp. stores warns workers against the... » read this article
  • John Wojcik , People's World

    Fearing that labor and progressive groups will soon shift much of their focus from health care reform to a bill that would expand union organizing rights, retailers across the country are stepping up their anti-union campaigns. A revised training video showing now at Target Corp. stores warns workers against the... » read this article
  • Paul Richard Harris, Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic exclusive

    We aim to replace the present capitalist system, with its inherent injustice and inhumanity, by a social order from which the domination and exploitation of one class by another will be eliminated, in which economic planning will supersede unregulated private enterprise and competition, and in which genuine democratic self-government, based... » read this article
  • Paul Richard Harris, Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic exclusive

    In its basic concept, capitalism should be about people making things for other people, and making a decent wage for doing so. Then the people for whom the goods are made sell them for more than it cost to make them. Some of those sales will be to the people... » read this article
  • Danny Jensen , Take Part

    Lately we've been paying more attention to where our food comes from, extolling the virtues of organic and local, but what's often left out of the discussion is who is growing our food.  And while getting to know your farmer at the market is an important part of creating a... » read this article
  • Amanda Wilson , The Dominion.ca

    OTTAWA- Mondragon Internacional (MCC), the world’s largest worker cooperative, has been the focus of a lot of media coverage in recent months, inciting discussion on how worker cooperatives have been affected by, and are responding to, the global economic crisis. On October 27, 2009 the United Steelworkers announced a framework... » read this article
  • Chris Marsden , WSWS

    26 November 2009 Repeated attempts by Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah leadership to restore their flagging authority amongst the Palestinian masses have only underscored the abject failure of Fatah’s perspective of securing a Palestinian state through an agreement with Israel and its sponsor, the United States. Abbas, whose presidential term... » read this article
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World News
  • Khadr Case Raises Broad Questions on Child Detainees
    Canada's top judges expressed such concern in a Jan. 29 decision, arguing that Khadr has endured and continued to experience violations of his rights under the constitutional Canadian Charter of Rights after the U.S. military...
  • Seeking A Kinder, Gentler Image For Israel
    Israel submitted its formal response last month to a U.N.-commissioned probe that accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. Israel defended its conduct and pledged to...
  • GREECE: New Migrant Law Tough But Respects Rights
    The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and criticised by rights organisations and activists. The interior ministry is ready...
  • Israel Admits Detention of International Activists Illegal
    A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement's  Ramallah offices. The two will...
  • Berlusconi, Israel, and The Big Brother
    After the three-day visit of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Israel and a short visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a judgement is due. Berlusconi came with a large Italian ministry delegation (Foreign Minister...
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