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		<title>Misreading the Tea Leaves</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/misreading-the-tea-leaves</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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CHRIS MAISANO
Analyzing the burgeoning Tea Party movement has become something of an obsession on the left, but unfortunately I think that many of us are misreading the nature of the movement. At last week&#8217;s Young Democratic Socialists conference in New York, numerous speakers made reference to the teabaggers, usually to either denounce them as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Women’s Day: Tell Obama to Help Women with HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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MARIA SVART
Did you know it’s International Women’s Day? 
New York City Democratic Socialists of America is marking the holiday—which was started by American democratic socialists in 1909 — by joining our comrades in Socialist International Women in demanding justice for women with HIV/AIDS.
From Socialist International Women:
According to statistics from UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Program on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 4: National Day of Action to Defend Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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From the coordinating committee of the March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education: 

As people throughout the country struggle under the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, public education from pre-K to higher and adult education is threatened by budget cuts, layoffs, privatization, tuition and fee increases, and other attacks. Budget cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public to Unions: Drop Dead</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/public-to-unions-drop-dead</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/public-to-unions-drop-dead#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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CHRIS MAISANO
For years, the AFL-CIO has touted a 2006 survey in which almost 60 million unorganized workers said they would join a union if they could. These positive numbers were supported by other polls that showed that solid majorities of the U.S. population had a favorable view of labor unions and saw them as necessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: &#8220;Undercover Boss&#8221; and the misfortune of labor</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/tv-review-undercover-boss</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/tv-review-undercover-boss#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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PETER FRASE
&#8220;To be a productive worker is therefore not a piece of luck, but a misfortune.&#8221; &#8211;Marx, Capital
&#8220;Are you a good team player/remember the boss is your best friend/kill your head.&#8221; &#8211;Born Against
CBS chose to premiere their new reality show, &#8220;Undercover Boss&#8221;, after the Super Bowl, indicating that they expect big things from it. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unconventional Wisdom: An Interview with Doug Henwood</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/unconventional-wisdom-an-interview-with-doug-henwood</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/unconventional-wisdom-an-interview-with-doug-henwood#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
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Brooklyn-based Doug Henwood has been among the few articulate voices on what Perry Anderson likes to call &#8220;the vanquished left.&#8221; Doug has been publishing an irreplaceable newsletter, Left Business Observer, which examines politics and economics with a scientific rigor and without the moral exhortations or hyperbolic spasms of his contemporaries, since 1986.  He also hosts [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Humanizing Galt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Undercover Boss"]]></category>
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BHASKAR SUNKARA
CBS is on quite the roll. A few hours after running a 30-second spot encouraging women to forgo medical advice during high-risk pregnancies, because after all they might somehow survive and give birth to the future backup quarterback for the Detroit Lions, they premiered their new reality show “Undercover Boss.”  A viewer of “Jersey [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Producteurs, sauvons-nous nous-m&#234;mes</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/producteurs-sauvons-nous-nous-mmes</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/producteurs-sauvons-nous-nous-mmes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when a structurally corrupt and politically complacent labor movement meets the biggest crisis of capitalism in generations?  Ask the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

Susan Watkins in the new issue of New Left Review:
That neoliberalism&#8217;s crisis should be so eerily non-agonistic, in contrast to the bitter battles over its installation, is a sobering measure of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inevitable Failure of Labor Law Reform</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-inevitable-failure-of-labor-law-reform</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-inevitable-failure-of-labor-law-reform#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Blumgart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[labor law reform]]></category>
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JAKE BLUMGART
At the beginning of 2009, unions had a reason to feel a little hopeful. The electoral victory spearheaded by Barack Obama the year before seemed to ensure a wave of progressive legislation. The new president even promised to advance the two policies closes to labor’s heart: health care reform and the Employee Free Choice [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/immanuel-kant-an-erotic-life</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/immanuel-kant-an-erotic-life#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernard-Henri Lévy]]></category>
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BHASKAR SUNKARA
Bernard-Henri Lévy deserves, more so than any other public intellectual of this age, our admiration.  I’ll go as far as to say that Lévy and not Voltaire, Rousseau, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir or Althusser, is my favorite French philosopher.  A pronouncement despite the fact that I’ve only managed to read from cover-to-cover one of [...]]]></description>
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