Any labor organization must be built on member democracy, where members control the union, and not just the formal leaders
in 2016, union membership was only 6.4 percent of workers in the private sector, and 34.4 percent of the public sector, giving an overall percentage of 10.7 percent
Review of A Great Vision: A Militant Family’s Journey Through the 20th Century, by Richard March
From a talk at Open University of the Left, 3-18-2017, Chicago, Illinois
Rushing into the streets, as exhilarating as it can be, is not enough for the long haul. And if we want to win, we have to be prepared for the long haul
Revisiting this film might be one place to start the process of consolidating the resistance,
During the Apollo 13 space flight in 1970, US astronaut Jack Swigert spoke to the command center in Houston, Texas, indicating a…
Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
It’s the morning after Trump’s election. I watched the election until about 2 am, Eastern time, so I knew he was…
A review of The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration, by John Marciano
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