Category: USA
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Standing Up At Standing Rock
Some 1,000 Native American activists from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and across the country faced off against police and security forces protecting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline … Keep reading »
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The U.S. Empire’s Culture Industry, at Large
“U.S. Empire’s Decline”: Spectre or Social Fact? For readers immersed in the annals of Empire, it is well known that the United States is no ordinary country in the world system. … Keep reading »
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Standing Up to Verizon’s War on Unions
Unions representing nearly 40,000 Verizon workers have announced plans to hit the picket lines on April 13, in what would be one of the largest strikes in the U.S. in … Keep reading »
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Sanders and the Left After Super Tuesday
Why there is still hope and why the Left should rejoice and push forward While some have become skeptical, there are those – from The Nation via Politico and Tom Cahill … Keep reading »
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Socialist Wins in Seattle — Toronto Next?
The headline in mic.com ran: “Meet the Most Important Socialist in America Not Named Bernie Sanders.” It was about the impact of open Socialist, Kshama Sawant, who had just been … Keep reading »
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From Wounded Knee to the United Nations
Rob Albritton interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States (Boston: Beacon Press, 2014) presents a much needed history of the United States as a settler … Keep reading »
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FIFA and the United States: The Russian Connection
On May 27th the United States Department of Justice issued a 47-count indictment against nine International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) officials and five executives of FIFA-affiliated sports management firms. … Keep reading »
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Neoliberalism and the Far Right
Toronto — 24 September 2014. Presentations by: Greg Albo is co-editor of Socialist Register. Bill Fletcher Jr is co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor.
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The U.S. Still Decides the Future of Capitalism
Not the G20, and Not the BRICS Nations International attention has been diverted away from this year’s G20 meetings in Australia by the declaration from the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, … Keep reading »
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The Working Class and Left Politics: Back on the American Radar
The American political system, so highly polarized between conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats, has experienced in the last year some interesting changes on the left-hand margin of the national political … Keep reading »
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The U.S. Shutdown is the Latest in this ‘Dysfunctional’ Relationship Saga
Now that the latest standoff between the U.S. treasury and Congress is over, it may be helpful to put it in some historical perspective. Indeed, the outcome brings to mind … Keep reading »
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AFL-CIO Convention: Leaving Existing Members Behind?
As American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) leaders packed up to leave Los Angeles last Wednesday, they basked in the glow of favourable media coverage of … Keep reading »