Labor

In 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation ended the depraved institution of American slavery. Centuries later there is a new form of slavery that affects the entire country.

The planet is burning, but the hot parties have only just begun here in Charlotte at the DNC.

In the key areas of bank regulation, law enforcement, labor, trade policy, climate change and civil liberties, there is more than a little difference between the Obama administration's record …

Organized under the banner Southern Workers Assembly, the group seeks to begin a wide-scale effort to organize labor in the South.

Hollywood is jumping aboard the PR train to push privatized education just as it did to popularize both World Wars - only this time, entrepreneurs are joining the government …

Itu2019s impossible to exaggerate the national importance of the teachersu2019 struggle in Chicago. If the Chicago teachersu2019 union u2014 26,000 members strong u2014 goes on strike, many critical yet …

I watched Eastwood live, and I found u201cthe one humanly interesting moment of the conventionu201d refreshing.

“About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War,” is a book that should be stacked up on a table in every high school cafeteria, next to the vultures. Sorry, …

The war drums are beating ever more loudly over Iran. Imagine the situation to be reversed.

At least 40 struggling companies have been converted into cooperatives with workers assuming management.