For Our Vote To Make a Difference, It's Time to Try New Tactics

The victory of Seattle's socialist city council member Kshama Sawant shows how grassroots efforts are creating an opening for independent political action by working people — even in the tightly controlled world of electoral politics and the two-party system.

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The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage

Had minimum wage kept up with worker productivity it would be $22/hour today. For a workers movement to win a living minimum wage will require getting corporate-backed politicians unelected from office, and building strength at the workplace level.

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At AFL-CIO Convention, Leaders Ask: What Direction for Labor?

Indicating a dramatic fault-line in Labor just days before the convention, International Longshore and Warehouse Union President Robert McEllrath sent a letter to Richard Trumka announcing the union's disaffiliation from the AFL-CIO.

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Why Mass Marches Still Matter: 2013’s March on Washington

If it is possible to organize a demonstration of hundreds of thousands, it is possible to expand a movement’s influence.

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The August 24 March on Washington: Why We Need a New Civil Rights and Labor Movement

Even with the greatest employment crisis since the 1930s and an unemployment rate for blacks that remains double that of whites, there is no talk of legislation for a federal jobs program to be paid for by taxing the rich.

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Zimmerman's Acquittal and the Call for a New Civil Rights Movement

We must mobilize and organize to assert popular power independent of the courts and corporate political parties if we are to create a world where Trayvon, and the millions he has come to represent, can thrive without fear.

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Quantitative Crisis: Bernanke's "Stimulus" For the 1%

The Fed's stimulus policies, expressed in the form of Quantitative Easing, amount to one of the most expensive forms of corporate welfare in history.

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Local Fights Against Austerity are Growing Across the U.S.

A wave of local grassroots organizing proves the potential exists to galvanize a national movement against austerity.

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Opposition Grows Fierce to Austerity Cuts in Portland

The Portland government's narrowly constructed and carefully controlled austerity narrative, meant to divide and weaken the city

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Detroit Citizens Prepare to Fight Their Corporate Master

With his appointment of a new emergency financial manager, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is transforming Detroit into an occupied colony within the State.

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