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Labor Upfront: Special New Year Edition For a New Year of Progress & Struggle
2008: What a Year for Labor By Scott Marshall Talk about a sea change. A President-Elect who actually walks on picketlines rather than busts unions. Unprecedented independent labor political action that arguably made the difference in changing the direction of our country. Stunning victories at Smithfield Foods in Tar Heel, North Carolina, at Republic Windows in Chicago, and Boeing in Seattle. New higher levels of labor unity - its been...
A Call to Action
The National Committee of the Communist Party USA calls on all of those concerned about the economic crisis that has gripped our country and the world to unite and fight for the election mandate. We hail the tens of millions who came to the polls and registered an historic defeat of the ultra right. These voters saw through the direct and indirect appeals to racism and voted for Obama. We...
A Landslide Mandate For Change - Report to the National Committee Meeting 11/15/08
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election! We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-peoples movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all peoples movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing. Download the PDF!
Finances and the Current Crisis: How did we get here and what is the way out?
If there were such a thing as a perfect economic storm, I would say we are close to it. The housing crisis continues and shows no sign of ending; credit and money markets are either churning or freezing up; the stock market is gyrating; unemployment is leaping upward (sharply so in the communities of the nationally and racially oppressed); poverty is up and wages are down; oil and food prices...
Economy and the need for a new public works program
Everyone in this room knows were in bad shape, and its not getting better. Every month this year has brought worse news on unemployment numbers, May brought a 0.5% increase to bring the total to 5.5%, an increase that was the largest since the mid-1980s, and the highest rate since late 2004. Over the past six months private-sector employment has fallen by 411,000; the long-term unemployed share is up to...
Editorial: Eye on the Prize
Barack Obama is not a left candidate. This fact has seemingly surprised a number of progressive people who are bemoaning Obamas shift to the center. (Right-wingers are happy to join them, suggesting Obama is a flip-flopper.) Its sad that some who seek progressive change are missing the forest for the trees. But they will not dampen the wide and deep enthusiasm for blocking a third Bush term represented by John...
Think Tank report, trade and industrial policy
Im going to both start with a list of questions. Hopefully Ill provide some information, a few suggestions, maybe even have a few answers. 1. How do we create and build jobs to sustain our trade, decrease the deficit, and maintain sustainability in this global economy? 2. How do we build labor internationally to raise the standards of living and guarantee or at least progress towards fair wages and working...
People's Weekly World Launches New Websites
Our fraternal newspaper, the People's Weekly World, has redesigned their website, http://pww.org. It now features daily online articles, multimedia, and even a blog! We hope you'll consider making the PWW/NM your daily home for progressive news and views.