New Jersey

Ebola in U.S.: Struggle over quarantine, stigmatization

Oct. 27 — Epidemiology nurse Kaci Hickox had traveled to Sierra Leone on behalf of Doctors Without Borders to help…

October 31, 2014

New Jersey health workers threaten to strike

Excerpted from a July 23 press release. For more information, go to 1199 SEIU website at tinyurl.com/neajdrw. A multinational, multigendered…

July 29, 2014

The Hurricane: Rubin Carter

From an April 23 audio column posted on prisonradio.org.  Hurricane Carter died from prostate cancer on April 20 at age…

May 3, 2014

Broad backing for minimum wage raise

Low-wage workers are carrying out a determined and heroic struggle to force giant corporations like McDonalds, Starbucks, Walmart and others…

February 28, 2014

Victory for airport workers and their union – challenges remain

It was a “big win” according to the Service Employees union, Local 32BJ, the union trying to organize airport service…

February 7, 2014

Gov. Chris Christie’s ‘Bridgegate’ — Follow the money

The sordid workings of bourgeois politics have been in the spotlight in the New York-New Jersey area for several months.…

January 29, 2014

DREAMers have a victory in Jersey City, N.J.

On Feb. 27, the struggle for immigrant rights took a giant leap forward in Jersey City, N.J. Jersey City is…

March 6, 2013

Hurricane Sandy still impacts workers & poor

The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut came up with a $60 billion figure for the damage Hurricane…

January 3, 2013

New York’s railroad tunnels flooded for first time in a century

By a railroad worker Hurricane Sandy and capitalist disorganization have devastated railroads and transit lines serving New York and New…

November 5, 2012

A crisis within a crisis: Lack of response to Sandy in New Jersey

Jersey City, N.J. — Nearly a week after Hurricane Sandy struck, as cold weather sets in and a new nor’easter storm…

November 5, 2012