By Dsa By Meghan Simons Your boss doesn’t get to dictate what you do with your paycheck, whether it’s buying groceries, donating it all to orphans, or splurging it on hookers and blow. Your boss might take issue with you…
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Tea Party and Border Patrol Spin the Story of Children in Detention
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By David Bacon Editor’s Note : Below we post David Bacon’s excellent piece on the current crisis of refugee children along the U.S./Mexico border and the manipulation of the events in the press by right wing media sources. Bacon offers…
Reclaiming Pride and Remembering its Roots
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By Dustin Guastella By Emma Roderick It has been 45 years since the Stonewall Rebellion. In June of 1969, some of the most marginalized LGBTQ people in New York City—homeless youth, drag queens and kings, sex workers, transgender women of…
Working Smart in the Class Struggle
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By Maria Svart By Maria Svart When billionaires claim, as investor Sam Zell has, that “The 1% work harder,” I can only respond, “Why yes, you are working harder than the rest of us in the class struggle. Of course…
Re-Igniting Socialist-Queer Politics
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By Dustin Guastella By Dustin Guastella June 28 marks the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall riots of 1969. Stonewall is often recognized as the beginning of the modern movement for LGBTQ equality. Out of these riots, early LGBTQ activists formed…
Eric Cantor’s Loss is Likely to Widen the Immigration Debate
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By Harold Meyerson by Harold Meyerson The winner in last Tuesday’s mind-boggling defeat of Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor wasn’t just David Who? (Actually, David Brat.) It also was gridlock — for the remainder of this congressional session, and…
Students Now Indentured to the Banksters
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By Dsa By Thom Hartmann Never in the history of the developed world has an entire generation had to go into debt just to get an education and a job. Until now. Back in January, 31-year-old Tony Muzzatti, who at…
To Think About on Fathers’ Day: Reproduction, Production and the Gender Division of Labor
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By Bill Barclay In the late 1960s, I was teaching at a community college in upstate New York. Among the books I assigned to my students was Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique. It usually generated good discussions, perhaps the most…
The May Federal Jobs Report and the Fight for $15
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By Sharon Post By Sharon Post The month of May 2014 saw job growth of 217,000 in the U.S. but no change in the number of people who are unemployed. Perhaps buoyed by the news of job growth, 218,000 unemployed…
Will the Pink Tide Lift All Boats? Latin American Socialisms and Their Discontents – Part Two
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By Jared Abbott Erosion of a Democratic Promise By Jared Abbott (This is an updated version of an article that appears in the Spring 2014 Democratic Left magazine. Part I was posted yesterday. – Editor) Today, well over a year…