By admin JACK ROTHMAN – I see that unions, led by the Service Employees International Union, are out in full force championing the $15 an hour minimum wage. Business leaders scoff at this. But about nine million workers carry full-time…
By by Barry Sheppard The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) currently being negotiated between the U.S. and 11 other countries is a treaty to cover regulations and investments between the countries. While it is being negotiated in secret from the peoples of…
By Editor Tonight in South L.A., the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission held a meeting on the LAPD’s use of force and racial profiling. The facility was packed, wall-to-wall. Community members were given little time to address the HRC,…
By Democratic Socialists of America By Daniel C. Adkins The utility model of selling fossil fuel energy from a few large power plants is under assault by the growing success of new technologies and policies. Some utilities are trying to…
By woodlanham Welcome to the June issue of the Washington Socialist, the monthly email newsletter of Metro-DC Democratic Socialists of America. Memorial Day has recently come and gone and the summer is officially under way. It is often the season…
Folks from the Socialist Party Los Angeles Local and Socialist Party Ventura Local, Socialist Alternative, the IWW, Solidarity, the DSA, the L.A. Red Guards, the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, LRNA, the Converging Storms Climate Action Network, Jacobin, and unaffiliated friends…
By by Eric toussaint Like a classical Drama, Greek debt is characterized by unity of place (Greece within the EU), unity of time (2010-2015), unity of action (the policies enforced by the 2010 and 2012 memoranda that resulted in a…
By Umass Boston Socialists Thursday, June 4th 7pm 358 Washington Street Dorchester, MA 02122 (Fields Corner Station or #23 from Ruggles) 1) What should the left say about Bernie Sanders? (70 mins) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has thrown his hat…
By Alex A worker was killed on the shop floor at the Oklahoma City Quad/Graphics printing plant on April 24. His death came as a shock and horror to his co-workers. While servicing equipment on a maintenance call, he was…
By Democratic Socialists of America Bernie Sanders At Kickoff Event in Vermont/VPR By Tom Gallagher Most people we might think of as being on the American left don’t generally embrace the idea of “American exceptionalism.” There is one apparent exception…
By woodlanham The Washington Socialist June 2015 By Bill Mosley Later this month you can expect to receive by e-mail and/or regular mail a request that you renew your financial commitment to Metro-DC Democratic Socialists of America. Even if you…
By woodlanham The Washington Socialist June 2015 By Andy Feeney The U.S. Postal Service and its unionized workforce have been under attack for more than a decade by rightwing Republicans who apparently hope to shrink or eliminate its operations over…
By woodlanham The Washington Socialist June 2015 By Daniel C. Adkins Tomorrowland starts with a young boy going to the New York World’s Fair to enter a jet pack into an invention competition. Soon you see a young woman getting…
By woodlanham Good Reads for Socialists As June Kicks Off Summer The Washington Socialist June 2015 A mini-memoir in Salon by a socialist who was present at the creation… the story of how Michael Harrington came close to becoming a…
By Editor The Socialist Party Los Angeles & Ventura County Locals building solidarity with radical folks from Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Converging Storms, DSA, Jacobin reading group, Socialist Alternative, IWW, LRNA and the Red Guard! Source: L.A. & Ventura Makin’…