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Thoughts on a Bernie Sanders Run

Bill Fletcher, Jr. The Progressive
... if the candidate has a real mass base, is building a broad progressive front around a clear, transformational program, and sees the candidacy as one step in a multitiered process, then it might be worth going for it.

Remember a President for Free Labor

Mark Lause Labor Online (Labor and Working-Class History Association)
During the Civil War, strikers and other workers with grievances found a sympathetic ear in the White House and a willingness to use what Lincoln saw as the limited power of his office to allow for a fair contest in disputes between labor and management...

Cable Guys

Craig Aaron The Guardian (UK)

The Economics of Love and Loneliness

Sam Pizzigati Too Much
Why aren't Cupid's arrows hitting their lovelorn targets the way they once did? New research points to our growing economic divide.

UAW Loses Election/Teachers to Strike

Under intense anti-union political pressure, workers at the Chattanooga Volkswagen voted today on joining the United Auto Workers Union. On February 18, the tenure track and non-tenure track faculty who make up the University of Illinois-Chicago faculty union UICUF Local 6456 will walk out of the classroom and onto the picket line for a two-day strike.