When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
(1) Claudia Roth Pierpont, A Raised Voice: How Nina Simone turned the movement into music. Great piece in the current
Just three links this week: (1) Mark Karlin, The End Game of Shutting Off Residential Water in Detroit Is a
(1) Esther Kaplan, Losing Sparta: the Bitter Truth Behind the Gospel of Productivity. This is a must-read piece that
I have had a rocky start with my intention to post links every Monday--I missed last week, but I&
(1) Tim Koechlin, "Inequality and the Case for Unions." In my Monday Links post, I meant to include
(1) Bill Barclay: Reproduction, Production, and the Gender Division of Labor. An excellent piece by Bill Barclay of the Chicago
(1) The Maypole's Revolutionary Heritage: Seems like I'm always reading May Day pieces that carefully distinguish
Please join us this Tuesday, April 15th for a Tax Day talk by David Cay Johnston: "Taxes and Inequality:
[Bill Foster (IL-11) says it better than I could myself—Polly] Washington, DC, Friday, April 4, 2014 – Today, Congressman
(You may have noticed some problems with the blog--several of the posts from earlier this year have strangely disappeared.
Our January/February issue is (finally) out. We had already been posting articles (it's the layout that takes