When members of Congress proposed paying for expanded health care with a tax surcharge on America's wealthiest citizens, the attack was swift but predictable. Taxing the top was labeled "class war," an attack on the successful, and bad for business and the economy.

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The plight of the homeless, isn't always self created.

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A question of Agency & Accountability

When Obama was elected I had high hopes.

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It's the music that came after the 60s when the boomers sold out and went to Wall Street. The leftover scraps of folk, prog, and psychedelia, warmed over to a gooey mush in a microwave and repackaged and sold to now middle-aged investment bankers as nostalgia.

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Howard Zinn, author of The Peoples History of the United States of America, comments on the current nature of class consciousness in the United States.

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"The question is whether government is really representative," Shahrokhi replied. "If not, they're only going to help themselves."

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In this article we seek to summarize the situation of women in Sweden. We offer an analysis of why we haven't progressed farther and why we need to keep up the struggle.

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For most of us, Benjamin Franklin's words in 1789 still apply: "Nothing is certain but death and taxes."

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If you think of current behavior as an advance accommodation to what is on the way, some things make sense that otherwise are mysterious.

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The occupation of Republic Windows and Doors by 250 workers in Chicago, Illinois is an important step forward and one that deserves the full support of the working class throughout the country and internationally.

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I am 42 years old and have nine children. I am a boss with boats operating in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

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Pirates prowling the treacherous waters off the Horn of Africa hijacked another merchant ship Tuesday -- at least the second in four days -- amid growing international concern about a 21st century version of an ancient security threat.

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We have seen glimpses of another way to live and it's @!$%#ing beautiful. Barack Obama has run his entire campaign on hope and a promise of change. But there's only so much that one can do within this system.

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The election results pretty much confirmed the extent to which Main Street is rightly livid about the Wall Street mentality that led to our financial crisis.

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He said that so far, in the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood. "We don't consider ourselves sea bandits," he said. "We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas.

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The number of U.S. jobs paying a poverty-level wage increased by 4.7 million between 2002 and 2006, according to a new report by The Working Poor Families Project.

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In a New York Times op-ed yesterday, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich argued that, in the face of a deepening recession, the government must continue to spend to stimulate the economy.

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Some eighteen thousand Colombian sugar workers in the Cauca river valley region, organized in the National Union of Sugarcane Cutters (SINALCORTEROS) have been on strike since September 15. The IUF is requesting international support for their struggle.

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None of the four owners would speak for this article, but Bailey and Loughrey's lawyer, Jeffrey L. Goldman, says the two plan to do much of the renovating themselves—"sweat equity," he calls it—and believe that they're bettering the neighborhood.

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A peaceful union march is brutally attacked by police. A union activist's leg is horribly disfigured and nearly amputated. Maimed possibly for life, she is charged with multiple felony offenses.

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Friends, Let me cut to the chase. The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken.

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Okay, capitalism isn't dead yet. And the house is falling on us too. But let's allow ourselves one little moment of glee at the expense of the system that's been choking the world to death for 500 years.

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The nationwide general strike in India has affected West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura almost completely and other States partially with industrial establishments remaining closed across the country and the functioning of the public sector banks was hit at most places. "The strik …

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Thousands of electricity workers took to the street on September 16, 2008 in Firdaws Square in Baghdad in a demonstration called and led by General Federation of workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI) represented by Subhi Albadry, President of GFWCUI and Labor Movement Unif …

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If you can still recite your ABCs and you are aware that the names of Atlantic Ocean tropical storms and hurricanes come from alphabetized lists created by the National Hurricane Center, you don't have to read any articles, hear any stories, or see any images to know that our i …

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