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	<title>The Activist &#187; labor</title>
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		<title>Class Television: In Praise of Roseanne Barr</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/class-television-in-praise-of-roseanne-barr</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 18:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Marcotte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate welfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER I never fully appreciated the sitcom Roseanne when it had its network TV run from 1988 to 1997. But I’m beginning to become a big fan of creator Roseanne Barr. This is, in part, due to a remarkable and much-discussed testimonial she gave in New York magazine, released this past week. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Unions: Structurally Corrupt?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/u-s-unions-structurally-corrupt</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/u-s-unions-structurally-corrupt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert fitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solidarity for sale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Activist editorial committee member Bhaskar Sunkara has a review of labor journalist (and DSA member) Bob Fitch&#8217;s Solidarity for Sale in the new issue of the Platypus Review. That book inspired quite a bit of debate about the nature of the U.S. labor movement and the labor Left operating within it when it came [...]]]></description>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Kabuki</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/political-kabuki</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/political-kabuki#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kabuki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ANDREW WILLIAMS I&#8217;ve always been a big fan of Japanese culture. In high school, I was a fan of Japanese animation, descending into a sort of sub-subculture among nerds at my school for the 3 or 4 of us who, instead of getting stoned, just watched Akira. By college, I&#8217;d become a little more refined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed Up But Nowhere To Go</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/fed-up-but-nowhere-to-go</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/fed-up-but-nowhere-to-go#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts Senate race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO The AFL-CIO has released the results of a very interesting survey of voters in last week&#8217;s Massachusetts special Senate election. It finds that Scott Brown, the Republican candidate, won on the strength of a &#8220;working class revolt&#8221; that gave him a 20-point margin of victory among non-college educated voters. In spite of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Labor: New Prince or Charlie Brown?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/u-s-labor-new-prince-or-charlie-brown</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/u-s-labor-new-prince-or-charlie-brown#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Fitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee Free Choice Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran labor journalist (and DSA member) Robert Fitch has an excellent article called &#8220;Card Check: Labor&#8217;s Charlie Brown Moment?&#8221; in the latest issue of the always excellent New Politics. He raises the big and uncomfortable questions that most leftists and laborites are typically unwilling to ask about the all too ineffectual American labor movement and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stella D&#8217;Oro Workers Win</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/stella-doro-workers-win-one</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/stella-doro-workers-win-one#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stella D'oro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strikes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MICHAEL HIRSCH &#160; Sometimes David does beat Goliath. Or lets the giant know it’s been in a fight. On strike and locked out for more than 11 months, 134&#160; Bronx, N.Y. bakery workers—almost all new immigrants from Latin America—employed at the last Stella D’Oro bakery in the nation won a June 30 Administrative Law Judge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding the Labor Movement: Is card check overrated?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/rebuilding-the-labor-movement-is-card-check-overrated</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/rebuilding-the-labor-movement-is-card-check-overrated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Employee Free Choice Act is critical to the future of organized labor. But its supporters may be over-emphasizing the importance of one part of the act, so-called "card-check" union certification.]]></description>
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		<title>On Republic Windows</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/dispatch-from-republic-windows</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/dispatch-from-republic-windows#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Bleifuss Prados</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chicago]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADRIAN BLEIFUSS PRADOS The Republic Windows plant is located in a bleak part of Chicago&#8217;s North Side known as Goose Island, a mile-long &#8220;island&#8221; formed by a brief divergence in a branch the Chicago River. The press has been referring to Goose Island as &#8220;a neighborhood&#8221; but I would describe it as a collection of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Against All Odds, PR Teachers Union Defeats SEIU</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/against-all-odds-pr-teachers-union-defeats-seiu</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/against-all-odds-pr-teachers-union-defeats-seiu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Stern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change to Win]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puerto Rico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puerto Rico Teachers Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEIU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Against All Odds, PR Teachers Union Defeats SEIU in Election for Representation by Micah Landau The Puerto Rican Federation of Teachers (FMPR) has done the near-impossible: solidly defeating one of the world’s most powerful labor organizations in an election for representation of Puerto Rico’s 42,000 public school teachers. In results from the election, which took [...]]]></description>
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