The US labour movement is in campaign mode to attack corporate interests lobbying against the new Employee Free Choice Act promoted by the unions and President Obama. Corporate America says they cannot afford in this crisis to have new workers’ rights. Unions press the opposite – new workers’ rights are central to improving the economy [...]
Archive | March, 2009
On Michael Lebowitz
McQueen on Michael Lebowitz and ‘A dialectically materialist critic of political economy.’ Yea! Michael Lebowitz is coming to a conference near us. At Easter, this Canadian Marxist will address the DSP’s Sydney conference, ‘World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century’. Boo! The Conference organisers have not programmed Lebowitz to lead a [...]
China fears riots
China fears riots will spread as boom goes sour Millions of retrenched workers in the global economic crisis hitting China’s growth left the cities to return to their rural family homes. Beijing hopes the newly jobless will stay there – to prevent a fresh wave of unrest in the cities. Here is a description of [...]
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