“American history teaches how to achieve the best results for workers’ interests on the job, in the community and socially. It requires building a robust alliance between labor unions and movements or political parties (or both) seriously committed to an anti-capitalist agenda for social change.”     by Richard Wolff via The Socialist Webzine Published on June 18, 2012 This article originally... 

“It’s official: wealth inequality accelerated over the past quarter century. The American dream was never a more hollow promise.” by Richard Wolff from The Guardian    The just-released Congressional Budget Office report, Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007, supports a basic claim of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement sweeping the country: that... 

“The fact that the landlord was the only person interested in the fate of the family is a stunning, yet increasingly familiar, example of the social isolation many people experience today.” by Billy Wharton  from The Socialist Webzine  Sitting down to create a life plan is a time for, people, especially young people, to demonstrate their hopes for the future.  For the young the possibilities... 

by Billy Wharton From the start, Barack Obama’s presidency has seemed like one big public relations campaign. Tonight’s State of the Union address did little to dissuade one from this view. Sagging under the weight of depressed dreams of hope and change, he desperately needed to appear as though he was doing something to address the growing needs of the American people. Emphasis on the “appearances,”... 

Thousands of people came out on Saturday to march against Wall Street and US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. United for Peace and Justice sponsored the event and nearly every part of the progressive community participated. The march followed a smaller mobilization at Wall Street on Friday which was shortened by a torrential downpour. Protesters on both days expressed the growing popular anger with an...