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		<title>The Verizon Strike as the Next Wisconsin</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-verizon-strike-as-the-next-wisconsin</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER The picket lines are up. This past weekend 45,000 Verizon workers on the East Coast, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), went on strike. The cause of the strike was the company’s attempts to win massive concessions from the unions. Verizon argued that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Union Life at Target</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/anti-union-life-at-target</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MARK ENGLER The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) suffered a rough blow this past Friday when they lost a unionization vote at a Target store on New York’s Long Island. Had the union won, the store would have been the first of more than 1,700 Targets across the country to be organized. As it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diagnosing Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/diagnosing-consciousness</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/diagnosing-consciousness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hegemony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic intellectuals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The German Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO In the body of Marxist thought, there are probably few concepts that have come in for more criticism than the so-called &#8220;correspondence theory&#8221; of consciousness, which Marx articulated most explicitly in his 1845 essay The German Ideology. In this famous attack on the idealism that dominated German philosophy in the early part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes to Labor Renewal &#8211; But What Kind?</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/yes-to-labor-renewal-but-what-kind</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/yes-to-labor-renewal-but-what-kind#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Fitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective bargaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson Cowie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor movement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=3732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO It was hard not to be inspired by the mass demonstrations in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and elsewhere against attempts by right-wing governors and state legislatures to strip public sector workers of their collective bargaining rights. It appeared as if organized labor in the U.S. would finally begin a counteroffensive to 30 years of [...]]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivist.org/blog/?p=2986</guid>
		<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>America&#8217;s National Pastime: Class Struggle</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/americas-national-pastime-class-struggle</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/americas-national-pastime-class-struggle#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE With the start of baseball season around the corner, I thought I&#8217;d get my Dave Zirin on and talk a little about the politics of sports. I&#8217;ve always thought that labor disputes in professional sports are a great litmus test that can be very revealing about someone&#8217;s general attitude toward labor and class. [...]]]></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>
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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>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[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Quiet War On American Workers</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-quiet-war-on-american-workers</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-quiet-war-on-american-workers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Blumgart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[class war]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Milkman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[JAKE BLUMGART Labor Day was born out of one of America’s bloodiest labor strikes. In 1893, Eugene Debs, a famous socialist who was instrumental in founding the American Railway Union, led the workers against railroad tycoon George Pullman. But Pullman was backed by at least 12,000 federal soldiers—nearly half the American army at the time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An articulate defense of labor unions</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/an-articulate-defense-of-labor-unions</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/an-articulate-defense-of-labor-unions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ydsblog</dc:creator>
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