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Teacher Unions and Student Performance in Public Schools: A Note
“Education is a basic human right—not a commodity—and should be free and equal. Despite the many problems our educational system does face, unions are not the enemy; in fact they are the last line defenders of public education and they must enjoy our full support.”
by Todd Vachon
from The Socialist Webzine
Turn on the corporately-owned television news at any given time and you’ll be sure...
‘When We Go Out, the Lights Go Out’: Workers Locked Out at Con Ed
“Hundreds of union members have descended on New York power utility Consolidated Edison’s corporate headquarters in Manhattan following the company’s decision to lock out 8,500 of its unionized workers in the midst of contract negotiations. Workers were sent home on July 1 after Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers Union refused to agree to give seven days’ notice before a strike.”
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An Open Letter to the New Press
“Clearly, it is wrong of the New Press to ask its interns to do menial labor, grunt work, and secretarial duties for free while the staff has health care, earns a living wage, and enjoys the security of a job.”
from The Socialist Webzine
Dear Tara and New Press Staff,
Thank you for the opportunity to work at the New Press. However, I am regrettably unable to continue to work full time as a piece...
Two important books on last year’s struggle in Wisconsin
from Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
At first blush the collections edited by Paul and Mari Jo Buhle for Verso Press and by Michael Yates for Monthly Review appear to cover the same territory. Now having read both books over the past month or so, I can report that the two have different emphases and should not be seen as competing with each other. Moreover, I strongly recommend that anybody...
Capitalism and Your Health
Gabor Mate talks about how capitalism is bad for one’s mental and physical health.
from KPFA’s Against the Grain
Against the Grain – February 1, 2012 at 12:00pm
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Social class in America and a VERY brief history of Capitalism
““In spite of the increase in the franchise (i.e. right to vote), the average citizen has little more say in government than the holder of a life insurance policy has over the companies in which he holds a share by virtue of that policy.”
by Chuck Hamilton
from Notes From the Ninth Circle
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” (Johann Wolfgang...
