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Around 150 million Americans drag themselves out of bed each day and show up for work. You get your first cup of…
Carl Finamore
I became influenced in the 1960s by veteran labor/socialist radicals of the 1930s. These older warriors were worker intellectuals who lived modestly, read widely and thought broadly. My life was changed forever, and for the better. A student, labor and social activist for the past 40 years, I retired in January 2008 as president of a Northern California local air transportation union.
It surprised many when the National Union of Healthcare Workers—a quintessential service sector union—announced in February its intent to affiliate with the Machinists, which…
Book Reviews Obama’s Recovery for the Few by Jack Rasmus Pluto Press, 2012, 177 pp. Review by Carl Finamore …
The two best organized forces in Egypt today remain the military and Islamist organizations. They have been quite successful in leveraging their…
“With God on Our Side” by Adam Reich – A Review Cornell University Press – The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work…
Egyptians immediately recognized vivid symbolism few others understood in the soccer riot that broke out recently in the coastal city of Port…
Cairo, Egypt—The most populated country in the Arab world took the day off on Wednesday, January 25. Tahrir Square was overloaded with…
One year ago in February 2011, getting to Egypt wasn’t that easy. Back then, my London flight crew suddenly refused, in…
A political campaign by San Francisco’s well-heeled “property owners” was launched to influence police and politicians to aggressively demobilize Occupy SF and…
A remarkable shift in mass public opinion is occurring right before our eyes. It does not happen often. Normally, only when there…