A coup is threatening in Greece. Not with bullets and tanks. Not with soldiers and bloodshed in the streets. This time, it is through the impersonal forces of international finance capital, but the […]
Greece update
Greece Again: Serious Dangers Present
“It’s so bad families can no longer afford to even bury their dead. Bodies lie unclaimed at public hospitals so that the local municipality can bury them.” That was how a director […]
Within Israel: Black washing and sex washing
Here is a video by David Sheen on racism and sexism within Israel. Among other things, he clearly shows the link between racism and sexism, including the huge number of top Israeli […]
Dylann Roof and Domestic Terrorism: A warning
Every single prominent politician, conservative and liberal, Republican and Democrat, has denounced the mass murder committed by Dylann Roof. Almost all of them have called it a “hate crime,” but not a […]
15 Now Tacoma Deserves Support!
15 Now Tacoma has qualified for the ballot. Unique among all the 15 Now campaigns, in Tacoma they really mean now, n-o-w, as in: As soon as it is passed by the […]
Unions: The results are in
The results are in. In 1999, the Construction Labor Review wrote “Unionized employment will keep climbing during the next decade but will be just barely equal to the rate of growth in […]
Debating the liberals
I had an online debate with a liberal union “reformer” about supporting Bernie Sanders. Here’s how it went: He started off by attacking me for my revolutionary politics. (Since most workers aren’t […]
Behind the Scenes at Oakland City Council
The Oakland City Council meeting of Tuesday, June 2, considered a controversial measure to give a large tract of valuable land right next to Lake Merritt to a real estate speculator to […]
Prison Revolt: Letter from Tecumseh Prison
Greetings my friends. My name is Chadrick Fitzgerald, IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) membership number X385061. As I write these words, I am sitting in a cell on the SMU gallery […]
Spain, Greece and the Race to the Bottom
An article in today’s (6/3/2015) Wall St. Journal perfectly describes what all the pressure on Greece’s Syriza-run government to further cut living standards is really all about. It focuses on what’s happening […]