The Activist

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Posts Tagged ‘capitalism’

Labor on Tranquilizers, Capital on Steroids

By Guest Author • Sep 29th, 2008 • Category: Exogenous Views

Never before has the half-century decline of American labor revealed itself more clearly than in the last several weeks.
Largely relegated to the sidelines, national union officials are making little effort to interject independent working-class solutions into the current debate of how to resolve the enormous social crisis affecting millions.
“Free market” apologists dominate discussion of both […]



Imperialism Rears Its Ugly Head in Georgia

By Bhaskar Sunkara • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: International Issues

For those in the war torn Caucasus this has been a week of unfathomable turmoil. It has been a week filled with images of displaced peoples, and the instruments of modern warfare doing what they do best, dispensing death. This has been a week that can only serve to remind us of the […]