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Five Ways to Measure Black Friday Strikes at Wal-Mart

By Josh Eidelson Business Week
Friday’s actions aren’t going to leave its stores empty or its business model overhauled. So what would make them a success from the perspective of the labor activists?

'Bonded With a Common Goal': As Ferguson Recovers, Activists Look Forward

Nadia Prupis Common Dreams
"This moment is a historic one," organizers with Ferguson Action, a coalition of local community groups, said in a call to action after the decision was announced. "Just like people have done throughout American history, we are making our voices heard, taking to the streets and using our first amendment rights to engage in strong actions of civil disobedience."

Hagel’s Departure Should Open Debate on Obama’s Wars

Medea Benjamin Nation of Change, Op-Ed
The talk about resetting President Obama’s security team is misplaced; we should be focusing instead on resetting his bellicose policies. Secretary Chuck Hagel’s resignation should be a time for the nation to step back and reexamine its violent approach to extremism, which has led to an expansion of terrorist groups, and inflated military spending.

NLG Stands with People of Ferguson

National Lawyers Guild
Press Release: November 25, 2014 Tasha Moro; Communications Coordinator; communications@nlg.org; 212-679-5100, ext. 15

Employers Keep Shifting Costs under Affordable Care Act

Mark Dudzic Labor Notes
Last year the Labor Campaign for Single Payer posted our Briefing Paper, ”10 Things Unions Need to Look Out for When Bargaining Under Obamacare.” We asserted that, “because it relies on employment-based coverage to provide the lion’s share of healthcare insurance while, perversely, undermining key aspects of that coverage, we have concluded that the ACA will place new stresses and pressures on collective bargaining.”

Remembering Freedom

Ursula K. Le Guin parker higgins dot net
Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.

French Communist Party: “Combating Ideological Confusion an Urgent Necessity”

Bruno Cadez & Frédéric Durand L'Humanitie in English
French Communists debated the outline of what might be the left of tomorrow that is the subject of debate, while at the same time were united in opposition to the current Socialist-led goernment free-trade policy, a policy “of moral and social regression.”

Chile’s Journey Towards A Constituent Assembly

Bruno Sommer Catalan Equal Times
Chile's Constitution, has its roots in the Pinochet dictatorship and consecrates the neoliberal model, As a result the economy is concentrated in the hands of 0.01 per cent of the population, while two thirds of the nation's GDP is in the hands of foreign capital

Post-Election Message from the Moderators at Portside

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