Recently posted November 10, 2009
GEO members know the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign only works because we do--and it can't work if we don't.
Nurses and technicians at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital voted to authorize a strike, largely over the hospital's plan to cut sick days.
November 9, 2009
Even when they weren't filling the air with racist hate, the media's explanations for the shootings at Fort Hood missed the real questions we need to ask.
: Shaun Joseph A U.S.-brokered deal that was supposed to return Honduras' legitimate President Manuel Zelaya to office has been broken by the coup regime.
In the wake of a narrow loss to the right wing in Maine, LGBT rights activists across the country mobilized to raise their voices.
: Chris Harman The death of British socialist and author Chris Harman comes as a terrible shock to the many people around the world he influenced.
: Michael Ratner Twenty-three Americans were convicted in Italy for their part in the "rendition" of an Egyptian cleric so he could be tortured.
The Fort Hood chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War and Under the Hood Café respond to the shooting tragedy.
Maine water activists celebrated an Election Day victory against Nestlé's attempts to gain control of water resources in the southern part of the state.
Activists at the University of Southern California protested David Horowitz by turning their backs on the arch-conservative.
November 6, 2009
: Lee Sustar The long war on unions is escalating in the public sector as the recession wipes out tax revenue and triggers deep budget cuts in states, large and small.
There are two wrong interpretations of the November 3 election results circulating in the political establishment and among its chatterers.
The streets of Philadelphia have been overrun by cars, bikers and pedestrians after SEPTA workers struck for a fair contract.
Workers at SK Hand Tools in Chicago prevailed in a strike that forced the company to restore health care and pensions.
Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a history of workers' struggle against the self-described Communist regimes of Eastern Europe.
However well-intentioned, a moralistic approach can have profound implications for how adherents of animal rights politics view human oppression.
Other species don't need political rights like the vote, but they absolutely deserve the ability to live out life according to their instincts.
We need a real public option | Puerto Rican workers show the way | The end of an era in music | Why our words matter | Liberation and the disabled
November 5, 2009
: Sherry Wolf In contrast to the surge of pro-LGBT activism and legislative progress, Maine voters overturned equal marriage rights by a narrow margin.
: Dave Zirin If Tuesday's elections reveal nothing else, it's that the time for swooning over photo ops is past. We need action, not words.
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