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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...

Insightful essay at dissidentvoice on why the US system of governance makes single-payer health care well-nigh impossible. I thank my lucky...

When you finally have time to read...

“Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers,” Essays by Arundhati Roy, 2009 India is a caldron of ethnic, religious and class hatre...

The arguments of Dennis Kucinich against the healthcare reform bill can be found here . I don't see in what manner the bill improves mat...

Melt-down of the Minnesota Green Party? Curiouser and curiouser. Two months or so ago, Cam Gordon, a Green, received the endorsement of the ...

Petition to Harry Reid: When you read this I may be dead if I am one of the 93,000 who die each year from hospital infections or one of the ...