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Are Fair Wages Under Capitalism Possible?
Fair wages under capitalism? Every once in a while you may hear politicians, union leaders and ordinary citizens demand fair wages or fair pay for work. While this is surely a noble goal, the fact that people still struggle for fair wages clearly shows that they have not yet been realized. Women are still paid…
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What “Free Speech” Really Means
The bourgeoisie and defenders of “liberal democracy” announce to the heavens that their society is the most advanced and democratic. In doing so, they point to notions of “freedom of speech” to justify their democratic posturing. Stemming from the “democracy” that we (or some of us who aren’t in prison or otherwise excluded from the…
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Poverty & Violent Crime
Poverty is the main cause of most violent crime in the United States today. Some cite violence in media as creating a mentality of willingness to harm others that would not otherwise exist; others see it as a problem of the degeneration of Judeo-Christian morality. Race, too, is cited as a factor in some White…
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Top 10 Anti-Abortion Myths
If you’ve been keeping up with the abortion debate in this country, you have no doubt heard some very interesting claims made by anti-abortion activists. Some of these claims need to be taken seriously, but others…well, not so much. In the spirit of raising the level of discourse, here are ten provably false claims that…
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Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion in Taxes Last Year, General Electric Paid Zero
Study estimates that illegal immigrants paid $11.2B in taxes last year, unlike GE, which paid zero Albor Ruiz, New York Daily News I bet most of you didn’t know undocumented immigrants contributed more – much more – to the national treasury last year than General Electric. Surprised? Yet it’s true. While GE – which…
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Alienation: The Pain of All Working People
Any person who is conscious at any level of what happens in the world, from occurrences within their immediate surroundings to larger forces driving political economy in one nation-state or many, must comprehend that there is something wrong. Working men and women who toil day in and day out to make ends meet for themselves…
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Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2011!
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since then it has become a global celebration of the labor union movement as well as…
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The West’s silence over Bahrain smacks of double standards
The absence of pressure on Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will only deepen the gulf of distrust between Iran and the west The European Union and the Obama administration have made a splendid art of double standards by imposing sanctions on Tehran’s rulers for their human rights violations and taking military action against the Libyan dictator…
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Wikileaks revelations about Gitmo bad news for Obama
In May 2009, when U.S. President Barack Obama was defending his decision to close Guantanamo’s prison, he vowed to review the intelligence files of every remaining detainee. “We’re cleaning up something that is, quite simply, a mess — a misguided experiment,” he said in a speech at Washington’s National Archive. Now that messy experiment is…
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