Orissa is the poorest State with an official estimate of 39.9 per cent of people living below the poverty line, yet in regard to proposed investment it stood at second position after Gujarat.  According to Assocham Investment Meter, recorded investment proposals in Orissa reached Rs. 2,00,846 crore in 2009.  The [...]

There is a dialectic at work in Venezuela.The dialectical relationship between Chávez and the masses has driven the process within Venezuela forward so far; whether it continues, will depend on the initiatives of both sides. That means the necessity from the top and the bottom to struggle against the obstacles [...]

The future of the dollar is in jeopardy. The World is concerned that the dollar cannot play the role of the main reserve currency any longer. We need a new currency system.

by futureofdollar.com
Global Research, February 18, 2010
futureofdollar.com – 2010-02-17
The World is concerned that the dollar cannot play the role of [...]

for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality, for getting more and more people to think that way, and also for getting more people to realize that power, which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, ultimately rests [...]

by Rick Wolff, 23.12.09

The 2010 Statistical Abstract of the United States (and especially Tables 574 to 650), published by the US Census Bureau, provides many statistics that can update understanding of today’s working class and possibilities of its movement.  The Abstract counts 154 million people as members of the US [...]

by Rick Wolff
 
 
The transition out of feudalism to capitalism in Europe, mostly from the 17th to the 19th centuries, took multiple forms.  It was uneven as well, happening in different ways at different rates in different places.  Marx studied that transition’s various dimensions because they offered valuable lessons for the different transition he was interested [...]

World Federation of Trade UNIONS (W.F.T.U.)
Announcement to the International Trade Union Youth Conference

Lima, Peru – November 18-20, 2009
The organizing committee, the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP) and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) call upon all affiliated and frieldy organizations to participate in this 1st International Trade Union Youth Conference.
Comrades,
CURRENT SITUATION IN [...]

Speech by WFTU General Secretary George Mavrikos at the International Seminar on:”The Economic Crisis and the Role of the International Trade Union Movement”, 5-6 October 2009, Brussels
7 October 2009

Dear friends,
We would like to welcome you to our Conference stressing that your presence here is very important for [...]

Amidst the many failings and shortcomings of unions and the labor movement, there have been bright spots too. Not long after the first edition went to press, many unions joined the fight for global justice and against the uncontrolled globalization that had been driving wages and working conditions downward worldwide. The most famous struggle occurred [...]

Michael D. Yates
The first edition of Why Unions Matter was published in 1998. In it I argued that unions mattered because they were the one institution that had dramatically improved the lives of the majority of the people and had the potential to radically transform both the economic and political landscape, making both more democratic [...]