Terrible working conditions and speed-ups in that industry have now led to an important workers struggle at the El Milagro tortilla factory in Chicago.
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The profits of war: How corporate America cashed in on the post-9/11 Pentagon spending surge
The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented — a staggering $8 trillion in expenditures and more than 380,000 civilian deaths, as calculated by Brown University’s Costs of War project.
The US lost in Afghanistan. But US imperialism isn’t going anywhere.
The antiwar movement should be under no illusion that the era of US imperialist warfare has come to an end with the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
‘Infuriating disappointment’: Biden DHS ramping up deportations to Haiti
Still under fire from human rights advocates after appealing a court order to stop using the Covid-19 pandemic as justification for expelling asylum-seeking families, the Biden administration on Saturday confirmed that it is ramping up deportations to Haiti and elsewhere.
Doctor’s prescription: Less snacks, more strikes!
Today, a strike is taking place at the maker of products that everyone in the country knows. No more Oreos, Ritz Crackers, or Chips Ahoy! Nabisco’s on strike.
The relative decline of US imperialism
The underlying relative decline in US manufacturing and even services competitiveness with first Europe, then Japan and East Asia and now China, has gradually worn away the strength of the US dollar against other currencies as the supply of dollars outstrips demand internationally.
Mechanics and teachers are on the streets
The general quiet of the current Chicago labor scene has been broken by two important events: the auto mechanics’ strike and the Naperville teachers’ contract battle.
Anthony Porter dies: A witness to death row
In 1999, after spending 17 years on death row for a crime he did not commit and within hours of execution, activists and attorneys won a stay of execution giving time for investigators to find the people who did the crime.
Leaving parts of Trump’s pro-polluter legacy intact, Biden gets C- on Environmental Report Card
Biden’s “limited achievements must be put in context of what both science and justice require to avoid the worst impacts of the climate and extinction crises,” said the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund.
Outrage as Biden says fate of immigration reform is ‘for the parliamentarian to decide’
“The parliamentarian offers advice which the president and the Senate are free to take or reject. This is Biden throwing the undocumented under the bus and claiming, wrongly, he has no other choice.”
Did supporting a Democrat help Cook County strikers?
The reality is that this strategy has failed. The person who the union leadership has been endorsing and donating to led the charge against the union.
“Toni, Toni, Toni… Full of Baloney!”
Saturday’s rally highlighted many of the themes of the strike. There were about two hundred, mainly African American, strikers at the rally. There was great pride that not only had Stroger Hospital struck, but workers in all parts of the County system were also out.
Unveiling The Prophet
This is the example of ruling class arrogance and class hatred that Ellie Kemper was involved with. It’s good that she apologized. It will be even better when American workers follow the examples of the 1877 strikers that the Prophets hated so much.
How much workers’ resistance is there today?
There are some long hard strikes and lockouts taking place. There are not a lot of them, but they deserve our support and solidarity. They take place in the overall context of a low level of class struggle.
Their occupations and ours…
The aim of the January 6 assault was to nullify the popular vote through a violent intervention during the Electoral college ratification… its aim was not to fight for more democracy but to impose the will of a minority whose primary goal was to reestablish white supremacy in the U.S.
