The Greek general strike and continuing mass protests against the European-IMF austerity package negotiated last week with Prime Minister George Papandreou, of the social-democratic PASOK party, are a sign of coming class struggles in Europe and around the world.
There is bitter opposition among Greek workers to Papandreou’s policy. Hundreds of [...]
Late at night, after a long day of May First.
I just left the Radisson Hotel where negotiations had been going on. Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, a top leader of the Maoists and their negotiating team, came out the doors to say that the three negotiating parties have not reached an [...]
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 [...]
Chicago and Nation March for Immigration Reform on International Workers’ Day
It was in Chicago in 1886 that a largely immigrant workforce fought, and won, the battle for the eight-hour day. It was in Chicago in 2010 that a modern-day workforce, made up of immigrants and the descendants ? of immigrants, came [...]
The political conflicts and street battles in Greece today foretell what is coming o many countries including the US. The struggles are basically over what the government spends on and who pays the taxes. In today’s class-divided societies, classes differ over what governments should do and who should pay the taxes. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]