On Monday, June 2, the Seattle City Council unanimously passed an ordinance raising the minimum wage in that city to $15 per hour for some workers starting in April of next year […]
Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance: What Does It Mean?
Corporate America gets a set-back… from the far right
Gerald Seib, the Wall St. Journal’s “Washington correspondent”, described matters perfectly when he wrote: “Most business leaders don’t particularly like getting their hands dirty in political fights. So they have tended to […]
Radio Show on the Union Leadership
Last Saturday (6/7), the editor of this blog site – John Reimann – was on WEFT’s radio program “World Labor Hour,” in a discussion on what has happened in the US labor movement, […]
India: Background to Election of Modi
by Roger Silverman The sweeping electoral victory of the BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi has been greeted worldwide with a mixture of euphoria and alarm. For big business, the justification […]
“Citizen’s Income” Campaign
The basic problem under capitalism revolves around the clash of interests between the working class majority and the small minority who own the capital – the capitalist class. Whenever this clash comes […]
Tommy Smith & John Carlos
Amazing that this simple act of protest brought about such repercussions. It shows the political role that athletes play in the US and worldwide.
Anti Fracking Protests in Romania
Global oil depletion meet environmental protesters. New supplies of the “low hanging fruit” – that is, the easy-to-reach and pump oil – is more or less gone, so capitalism is having to develop […]
Juan Carlos Abdicates
The abdication of Spain’s King Juan Carlos and his replacement by his son, Felipe, reminds me of a joke that was told back in the ’80s: It seems there was a police […]
Indians elect a communalist: some background
by Roger Silverman Introduction: The Bharita Janaya Party (BJP) recently won the national elections in India, putting its candidate, Narendra Modi, as Prime Minister. The BJP is a Hindu nationalist party with […]
Seattle Democrats: “Showing Leadership?”
An article on yesterday’s al Jazeera web site reports on Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant and the campaign for a $15 per hour minimum wage. It reports on a proposal […]