Human needs before profits

All out for May Day!

Teresa Gutierrez, right, co-coordinator of the May 1 Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, with other coalition activists at an…

April 29, 2014

U.S. bosses hoard $2 trillion overseas

Hundreds of U.S. corporations’ profits that are held in overseas bank accounts nearly doubled between 2008 and 2013, when the…

April 28, 2014

The meaning of low-wage worker struggle

And the need for an independent revolutionary pole in new working-class movement The nationwide strikes of workers at places like…

April 19, 2014

Automation threatens 47 percent of U.S. jobs

A wakeup call for labor movement and working class Two scholars at Oxford University have made an exhaustive study of…

April 17, 2014

Judge says Detroiters owe banks $85 million

The ruling on April 11 in the Detroit municipal bankruptcy by Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge Steven Rhodes awarded an $85…

April 17, 2014

National Urban League report illustrates decline in employment and wages for African Americans, Latinos/as

Even though the administration of President Barack Obama has said that the Great Recession has been over for four years,…

April 16, 2014

$15 and a union!

Philadelphia -- Low-wage workers and their supporters gathered outside a McDonald’s restaurant here on April 3 for the second time…

April 10, 2014

MLK & jobs

On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., while showing solidarity with…

April 9, 2014