By: RoseAnn DeMoro
Healthcare is on the agenda in California. Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed every expansion of health coverage for adults and children placed before him, including a single payer bill. Then, with utter arrogance behind closed doors, flanked by special interest groups and ignoring the California legislature, he attempted to position himself as the national champion of health care reform, condemning a single payer health care system as government run health care. |
By: Sam Gindin
The 2007 United Autoworkers (UAW) agreements with the Detroit Big Three represented – as many people inside and outside the union have noted – the greatest economic concessions in the history of the union. Yet, in the course of that defeat, a remarkable opposition arose. It was led by a small group of activists who started late in the day and with limited organizational resources. At General Motors (GM), a third of those who cast their ballots voted against the agreement and at Chrysler the vote against the agreement was quite general at the large plants outside of Detroit. The question now is whether that oppositional base can be built on and what its first focus might be. |
By: Muata Greene
As I look at the value system of America with the MEGA-consumerism around the holidays, there is one almost every month. The capitalist ideology of "Get rich or die trying" as one rapper put it. Also based on my experience in the U.S. left politics I feel that a cultural along with a political change is needed, this is how I came to agree with the concept of African Humanism
"Ubuntu" and its role in the worldwide struggle against imperialism and globalization.
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