The Costs of the U.S. Blockade of Cuba
Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” ushers in a “New Special Period.”
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Labor Amendment?
"If you can find a Democrat or a Republican who supports a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a job and a
Workfare: Unfair!
It is 7 a.m. when Ava gets to her job at a Brooklyn, N.Y. Department of Sanitation garage.
Coming in From the Cold in the Struggle for Solidarity
We were winding up our interview when Wilfredo Larencuent mentioned in passing that the AFL-CIO's representative in
Taking Aim at Child Slavery
If the Persian-style carpets at your local store do not have Rugmark's signature stamp of a smiling
Let's Close the CEO Salary Loophole
Executive salaries are like Charlie Chaplin's classic scene in The Great Dictator. Mussolini and Hitler are sitting in
The Che Marketing Moment
Revolutionary governments rarely enjoy personnel with advanced training, technical expertise or policy-making experience in the positions normally requiring them.
Active Culture
Senior Summer This year, some of the young activists in the Union Summer program of the AFL-CIO will work
The Albanian House of Cards
In early 1993 a journalist with the Albanian Economic Tribune visited Albania's Finance Ministry to collect figures on
The Green Transformation
The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment, by John Bellamy Foster (Monthly Review Press, 1994) Is Capitalism
Denmark Shows the Way
Industry has a long record of resisting even the old-style regulations for cleaner air and water--the mandates to