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“Empire of Illusion – the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,” by Chris Hedges, 2009 Chris Hedges is famous for writing the anti-...

As Mayday's distinguished (albeit unpaid) foreign correspondent in Europe, I suppose I should cite this article in today's Independ...

I read the articles of Paul Craig Roberts with keen appreciation; he has a knack for explaining seemingly complex things in pellucid and suc...

“Ecological Revolution,” by John Bellamy Foster, 2009 Marxist theory has been crossing the desert. Recent Marxist theorists either make co...

NOTHING IS TOO GOOD FOR THE RICH ! supreme court rules...Money talks........shit walks. “...the Supreme Court will remain what it has been d...

“Rock and Roll,” by Tom Stoppard, first produced June 2006, England – Park Square Theatre, St. Paul, 2010 Tom Stoppard was born in Czechoslo...

An edifying essay by David Michael Green on Obama's first year: Barack Obama has now, in just a year’s time, become the single most ine...

One of the few bright spots in the recent development of the labor movement is the election of Rich Trumka as president of the AFL-CIO. A qu...

“ Embedded With Organized Labor,” by Steve Early, 2009 This is the first book on labor reviewed on these pages. This is not an accident. Lik...

We've had requests for a book club at Mayday in the past, with intermittent success. Let me know by commenting if this idea appeals to y...

This notion of a "workers' state" continues to bother me (though my apprehensions may be misplaced). As I understand it, the s...

David Macaray echoing what I've been saying for awhile now: And guess what happened when these people poured into the streets, stopped ...

As I understand it, the usual liberal and progressive point of view is that there are certain immoral and greedy individuals at the pinnacle...

Andy Coates -- in this interview with Ashley Smith at Socialist Worker -- succinctly explains what's in the health care reform proposal...

An essay at commondreams: Sometime early in Ronald Reagan's first term, I decided to forget everything I'd always disliked about li...

I found a thought-provoking article in Dawn: The cavalcade of controversy that has followed recent revelations regarding Blackwater/Xe are ...

My memory grows feeble in my dotage but I seem to recall 19th century social theorists like Mosca and Michels contending that oligarchy was ...

An excellent essay by Chris Hedges, with which I concur: Liberals are a useless lot. They talk about peace and do nothing to challenge our ...

Local activists gathered at Mayday Books on Tuesday evening, December 1, to listen to and respond to President Obama's long-awaited spee...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” about being “Born Under a Bad Sky” in “The Merry Month of May” while “On the Trail of the Assassins” (by Margaret...

An article by Alice Schroeder at Bloomberg : ... The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firea...

Except for military spending, that question is always asked. Health care.... where will we get the money? Education....how will we pay for i...