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New Twist in Six-Year Fight With Developer: Union Rally Leads to Riot Charges
To Robert James, an organizer for the laborers union, the rally seemed unremarkable. That impression changed seven months later, when the Manhattan district attorneyu2019s office notified Mr. James that …
Chicago Workers’ Economic Plan: Go Co-Operative!
Laura Flanders: A group of the workers who occupied the Republic Windows and Doors factory in 2008 have founded a worker-run cooperative.
Spanish Austerity Savage to the Point of Sadism
If you are Josef Ackermann heading up the Deutsche Bank, you earned an 8 million Euro bonus in 2012, because you successfully manipulated the past four years of economic …
Thomas Frank on Money in Politics
When it comes to the vast, corrupting influence of money in politics, historian Thomas Frank has sounded the alarm loudly and often.
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“No Justice, No Piece”: Pizza Company Accused of Targeting Immigrant Strikers
Workers at Palermo's Pizza have been on strike for two weeks.
How Not to Be a Union
(Photo: Steve Rhodes / Flickr)Unions were originally built on the principle of solidarity. Workers soon realized that as individuals they were powerless when trying to defend their interests in …
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With the American Left in a Smouldering Wreck Post-Wisconsin, Who’s to Blame?
President Barack Obama arrives at the Philadelphia International Airport, June 12, 2012. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) We are not alone, and the system is weak. …
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The Easter Rising: How 1,558 Irish Defied the British Empire
The Easter Rising was first published in 1999, but in 2004 a pivotal development occurred that mandated not just a new edition but essentially a new book.
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Chris Hayes | 1% Pathologies
Chris Hayes: We largely ignore the effect of extreme inequality that is, in the long run, the most destructive: the way it makes those at the top of the …
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Going Out of Businesses
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