Deadly Games: The Labour Casualties of Qatar’s World Cup
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch A sordid enterprise, nasty, crude and needless. But the World Cup 2022 will be, should anyone bother watching it, stained by one of the highest…
Declassified UK Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn on the Establishment Campaign To Stop Him Becoming PM
The former Labour Party leader sits down with Declassified for his most candid interview yet – on the British media, UK military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange…
VIDEO: Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
By Richard Wolff and Lex Fridman / Lex Fridman Podcast Conversation between Richard Wolff and Lex Fridman exploring questions surrounding Marxism, communism, capitalism, socialism, human nature, economics, governments, corporations and…
Videos from the 2022 Labor Notes Conference
By Alexandra Bradbury / Labor Notes Wow! What an amazing weekend. Thank you to all 4,000 troublemakers who converged in Chicago June 17-19 and made this year’s Labor Notes Conference…
The Fed’s Austerity Program to Reduce Wages
By Michael Hudson / CounterPunch The Federal Reserve Board’s ostensible policy aim is to manage the money supply and bank credit in a way that maintains price stability. That usually…
The Unionization Wave Continues: Workers in Maine Have Organized the First Chipotle Store in the Country
Workers at an Augusta, Maine Chipotle have formed an independent union: Chipotle United. This is a clear indication that the unionization wave that started with Starbucks and Amazon is only…
UK Railway Workers Begin Largest Strike in 30 Years
Amid high inflation, tens of thousands of railway and subway workers across the United Kingdom have declared at least three days of work stoppages to demand wage increases and other…
Keeping Workers Poor is Bad for Business
At America's biggest low-wage employers, chief executives now pocket 670 times more than their workers.
Unionization Spreads Across Starbucks Outlets in US Despite Efforts to Intimidate Workers
According to Starbucks Workers United, which is organizing workers to form unions, workers from over 200 outlets have already approached the National Labor Relations Board for a union vote
Hedges: Let Us Now Praise Amazon Unionists
The only way to halt the global assault on the human rights of workers is to unionize.
‘David Beats Goliath’: Workers in New York Vote to Form Amazon’s First-Ever Union in U.S.
A month after the National Labor Relations Board sued Amazon in federal court, warehouse workers in New York won their election to form the first Amazon union in the U.S.
Teachers Union Warns Pandemic Burnout Destroying Schools
By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams New polling out Tuesday reveals pervasive burnout among the nation’s educators as pandemic-related staffing shortages and other difficulties drive a potential exodus from the…
Hedges: America’s New Class War
Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States.
Nader Calls on Attorney General Garland to Create Corporate Crimes Database
The Department of Justice must compile comprehensive data on corporate crime to measure its incidence and severity.
As Job Gains Slow, the Fed and Congress Apply the Wrong Medicine
The economy is in imminent danger of slowing.