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Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Jorge Lemann: won't eat what he producesby Richard Mellor GEDAfscme local 444, retired In a previous piece I commented on New York City’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, having a certain worldview. He believes that the city’s services and no doubt the existence of the city itself, is made possible through the financial generosity and sacrifice of billionaires like him. In response to the accusation that NYC has become two...
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
A Poem by Kevin Higgins At Union Station hope is a t-shirt on sale at seventy per cent off. Yesterday, all the bow-tied barristers gathered in the Hilton Hotel. At the end of the street the man from JP Morgan told Congressinvestors prefer trophy real estate:Manhattan office blocks to houses for the little people.Out here, the tuxedo gives wayto the pick up truck. Red winter fields dotted with cattle that will soon be hamburgers; demolition yardsfull of cars that were once somebody’s dream. Out here, the taxi drivers are all local in...
A short CNA clip from Kaiser nurses. The AFL-CIO convention was apparently ready to applaud kaiser as the model health care provider. The California Nurses Association (now an AFL-CIO affiliate) contacted the AFL-CIO complaining about Kaiser's anti-worker anti-patient practices and published this statement:Nurses once again let Kaiser Executives know that we will not be idle while Kaiser Cancels Our Patients’ Care. Kaiser was slated to be spotlighted as a model healthcare company at the AFL-CIO convention. When we let the...
by Richard MellorAfscme Local 444, retiredWhat a tragedy. A beautiful little boy who should be experiencing all the pleasures that a healthy and well fed young life can offer. I can barely look at it without wanting to take him in my arms and caress the little man; hold him like I have my own little ones, or the way we hold our pets. A mother or father whose kisses and hugs bring such joy to the recipient and the giver is waiting for that...
The organizers of this blog have explained that US capitalism cannot afford to keep its massive military machine working at its present level without driving its working class at home into poverty. This latter is happening all around us as we see wages and benefits being slashed and services in city after city being reduced or removed altogether. Now we see the reduction of the living standards of the military in the field. Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan are now about to lose a daily meal, causing some to fore go a hot breakfast...
Monday, 9 September 2013
40 years ago this week I was at a Labor Party conference in Ireland. The news came in. The US military and CIA thugs had carried out their military coup in Chile. The US economic thugs at the University of Chicago, known as the Chicago Boys, drew up the agenda and the Chilean working class entered a nightmare of mass killings and mass poverty. All in the name of and organized by US capitalism and its profits and power and control. It is these same thugs who lied to get the US people to agree to attack Iraq and Afghanistan. It is these same thugs...
Sunday, 8 September 2013
We share this piece for our reader's interest. Reprinted from AlterNet.org 5 Acts of Terror By the People We Chose to Protect Us Americans are led to believe in a terrorist threat that may or may not exist while the corporate/military/political complex creates 'terror' to safeguard the assets of the rich.Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/ Suzanne TuckerSeptember 8, 2013 | Every clear-thinking American knows that education and...
The piece below was sent to us from a retired CAW member in Canada. Not being in Canada it is hard to determine how much of a good thing this merger might be. The author points out that when it comes to organizational details, nothing has changed and women, a huge section of the working class and union membership throughout the world are visibly absent. Sister Hinshelwood points out that there was some progress in that she received 17.49% of the...
by Sean O' TorrainOver the past years tens of millions of people have taken to the streets of the world to protest the conditions in which they are forced to live by the capitalist offensive. These movements have not all been conscious but they have been full of anger and rage. At the same time increased tensions have developed between the major capitalist powers. During the decades of the cold war the world had a certain equilibrium based on the balance between US imperialism and its rival Stalinism. With the end of the Soviet Union this equilibrium...
Saturday, 7 September 2013
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Friday, 6 September 2013
Which elected official sent these guys along?Left: beefed up cops turn up at peaceful WalMart protestIn response to the protests/strikes by WalMart workers and their supporters yesterday, WalMart spokesperson Brooke Buchanan said that the protests were, just, “…another stunt to garner attention, it's the same old cast members trying to get some attention for their cause." The protesters are just a...
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