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Workers demonstrate in defense of Cerámica Zanon and other recuperated ceramics factories, in 2003 (Photo: Indymedia Argentina)

Almost forty years ago I invented direct democracy – or so I thought at the time. I had been raised in Rhodesia, a racist and mostly fascist country, and had just moved to England. Although England considered itself a fine example of democracy (and still does), I was puzzled how such a fine democracy could have an unelected head of state, and a parliament where more than half its members are unelected.

Unions are a force for good in the world. Too bad not all of them are a force for good everywhere in the world.
Canadian unions are largely indifferent to international affairs. And when they engage it’s rarely to challenge Ottawa’s foreign policy.

It was a VERY different GOP in 1956Yesterday, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, a show Señor Trumpanzee watches. Trumka pointed out that Trump has "used his office to actively hurt working people [and] to date, the things that the Trump and his anti-worker regime have "done to hurt workers outpace what he’s done to help workers...

MINNEAPOLIS — (Analysis) Three scenes from America’s class war:
In 1897, the president of Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in Atlanta hired 20 Negro women to work in the folding department of one of the mills. The other 1,400 workers, all white, promptly walked off the job in protest. According the historian Philip S. Foner in his book Organized Labor and the Black Worker, the company agreed to fire the black workers on one condition: the white workers would have to work overtime for free.

Paul Ryan's "To Do Away With" List Discovered!by NoahDWT hackers today announced that they have discovered a bucket list of items that House Speaker Paul Ryan wishes to do away with by the time he gathers up all of his ill-gotten gains and fleas to K-Street where he can grab even more.

“Race” has always, historically speaking, been the Achilles Heel of the labor movement in the United States, the number one tool of the bosses and big capital to divide, contain, and crush working-class struggles.

Reading the daily headlines, it’s easy to forget that the corollary of a civilization in precipitous decline is a world of creative ferment, a new world struggling to be born. If you could have a God’s-eye view of all the creative resistance rending the fabric of political oppression from the U.S. to Indonesia to Colombia, you would surely be persuaded that all hope is not lost.

The People United Will Never Be Defeated from the Free Farm

 A South Boston anti-busing protest in the 1970s (source)by Gaius PubliusAs a new Democratic insurgency has risen over the last year, unions have clung tightly to the old guard.— Aida Chávez & Ryan Grim, The InterceptThe modern progr