Transcript Mar 30th 2010 , by Cindy Sheehan, Hugo Chavez Cindy Sheehan: Welcome to this video and audio audition of Cindy Sheehan’s SoapBox. Presidente Chavez, thank you for being on the show, thank you for this interview and thank you for allowing me to bring the truth about Venezuela and about you and about your [...]
Excessive Centralization Creates Inefficiency and Prevents Authontic Popular Protagonism by Marta Harnecker 1. There Is No Popular Protagonism without Decentralization Popular protagonism becomes a mere slogan if people do not have the opportunity to make their opinions known and take decisions in areas where they participate: (geographic spaces, workplaces, educational establishments, interest groups). If the [...]
Great powers are allied against this revolution. India, the United States and the entire disinformation machinery we call mainstream media (from left to right) has insisted that communism is done. And can be killed in silence should it raise its face. Here people are doing it . And it is those people who need honest [...]
Secret world of Vietnamese workers in Russia Vietnamese migrants work up to 20 hours a day in this Russian factory By Hung Nguyen BBC Vietnamese, Moscow Three years ago, Cuong left his wife and two children in Vietnam and went to Russia in search of a job. The young man from Hai Duong province thought [...]
Cabdrivers with the United Taxidrivers Community Council (UTCC) joined forces with Communities for an Equitable Olympics 2016 in Chicago in August 2008, demanding, among other things, a living wage for cab drivers. By Kari Lydersen Cab drivers earn as little as $4 an hour, regularly work 12-hour days six days a week, suffer debilitating work-related [...]
The White House on Wednesday took time out to promote the value of a flexible workplace that can accomodate two-paycheck families. With 15 million people officially unemployed, it made one nostalgic for a time before the recession, when people worried about the quality of their work lives rather than about just finding a job. But [...]
Their Own Union to Press Fight for Jobs It’s been only a month that a union for the unemployed has come into existence through an ingenious grass-roots organizing campaign. In case you haven’t heard about it, the union’s name is “UR Union of the Unemployed” or its nickname, “UCubed,” because of its unique method of [...]
Greek history of Social Democratic regimes illustrate their historical role as the saviors of capitalism in crises.They are allowed, by the foreign and domestic elites, to come to power because they have the popular backing to implement the harsh reactionary policies. In embracing and enforcing their unpopular and retrograde polices, the Social Democrats, profoundly alienate [...]
Greece: A tradition of revolt In every corner of Greece, popular anger over the government’s latest neoliberal assault on job security, pensions and social services has lead to a series of general strikes involving hundreds of thousands of militant workers. The Greek government’s attacks are being implemented at the behest of the European Union, which [...]