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Campaigns to raise the minimum wage, such as the "Fight for $15" campaign among fast food workers, are not just about raising the minimum wage. They are about changing the social relationships and balance of power embodied in the wage. Through opening this struggle, low-wage workers compel us to rethink again who is a "breadwinner." The campaigns also push us to revisit past campaigns that fought for living wages and also for work to have social value.

Big Oil seems to be using veterans to push its Keystone XL agenda.

Eight proposals to jump-start the incomes of workers.

Carl Levin's subcommittee on investigations says the equipment-maker routed money through a Swiss subsidiary.

The searchers, in an area about 1,150 miles west of Perth, have stumbled onto the eastern edge of a garbage gyre in the Indian Ocean.

Boosting workers' power within the corporate framework requires more than expanding profit sharing or altering the company's charter. It requires altering the corporate structure.

Once the March for Dignity became public, it rapidly became clear that it was an initiative for which millions had been waiting. Endorsements of its manifesto rapidly multiplied and the popularity of the initiative forced the mainstream union confederations to give it their blessing. No to the payment of the debt; bread, shelter and work; and not one more service cut.

Ramogi Huma, president of the College Athletes Players Association, told "Outside the Lines" that he and Kain Colter, the former Northwestern quarterback, will be in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and Thursday for informational briefings with an undisclosed set of legislators.

Corporate media both here and in Venezuela have largely succeeded in putting a democratic face on the racist, essentially fascist, movement in the streets of Venezuela. Traditionally anti-racist coalitions have ignored Venezuela. It is time we stand in solidarity with the majority of people in Venezuela.

The essential point of Livio’s book is to show the passionate pursuit of wrong theories as a part of the normal development of science. Science is not concerned only with things that we understand. The most exciting and creative parts of science are concerned with things that we are still struggling to understand. Wrong theories are not an impediment to the progress of science. They are a central part of the struggle.