In These Times

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• • 29 Oct 09
  • 10:37 pm

  The left needs to put forward its own progressive agenda based upon what will unite working people: Peace. Real health care reform. Moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions. A real living minimum wage. If we can't get real peace and real health care reform out of Obama and these Democrats we should dump them by with holding our votes... it is called "accountability" which is central to democracy. It is time to explain to the American people what socialism really is... then the right-wing will have something to really cry and yell about.

  Posted to A Party With No Punch

• • 29 Oct 09
  • 10:24 pm

  "One idea that I would propose to President Trumka is for him and the heads of the labor federation to give serious consideration to helping develop a viable third party. A viable third party made up of trade unionists, environmentalists, civil rights activists, community activists, populists, and other progressives. It is quite clear that blind allegiance to the Demoratic Party has resulted in very little return." Well said... but, we can't wait for Trumka to act. We need to begin taking on these Democrats. The time has come to serve notice on the Democrats and Obama: No peace; no votes. No …

  Posted to Labor’s New Leader

• • 05 Oct 09
  • 4:43 pm

  No doubt Chomsky will be supporting Barack Obama for re-election just as he supported Obama the first time around. Chomsky has chided socialism as an alternative to Wall Street's capitalism in favor of some kind of ridiculous form of anarchism which can not possibly challenge imperialism unless one thinks that breaking the windows of the Bank of America is sufficient. Anyone can see what Wall Street's U.S. foreign means for other countries but Chomsky remains loathe to accept socialism as an alternative here in the U.S. A. Why doesn't Chomsky and his pals in the "Progressives for Obama" go tell Barack …

  Posted to Militarizing Latin America

• • 05 Aug 09
  • 12:21 pm

  A conference on just these topics is coming up: For Unity in Action of the Peoples of Mexico, Canada and the USA, for Peace, Sovereignty, Anti-Imperialist Solidarity and the Rights of the Working People. Invitation to Participants from Mexico, Canada and the USA to Attend the Second Tri-Lateral Conference of the World Peace Council, October 2-4, 2009 Toronto Ontario, Canada In 2004, the Peace Movements of Mexico, Canada and the United States met in Puebla-Mexico, for the first Trilateral North American regional meeting. It was agreed then to invite to a peace promoting meeting all interested parties, every four years. This …

  Posted to Can Labor Get Out of This Mess? (Part Two)

• • 04 Aug 09
  • 9:30 am

  One of the main reasons for lack of militancy is the false assumption that Barack Obama is some kind of "friend of the people" and that he is some kind of liberal or progressive just "waiting to make his move." Many working people are still convinced Barack Obama and the Democrats are going to solve their problems. How did they come to this conclusion? It’s kind of simple to determine how working people got this impression with all the liberals, progressives and much of the left intentionally obscuring the fact that Barack Obama is nothing but a Wall Street charlatan out …

  Posted to Not Your Parents’ Labor Movement