Editors' Blog
Broadly speaking: Republicans refuse to aid displaced workers
The Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which helps workers displaced by free trade policies, is expiring and House Republicans have refused to schedule a vote on it. After losing control over their caucus on the Patriot Act vote earlier this week, they realize if a TAA extension had an up or...
State of the Union and the Right-wing Danger
I haven't written for the blog lately because I have been overwhelmed with work – teaching Winter session courses, doing union work here at Rutgers, etc. But I thought I would respond to some developments as President Obama prepares for his State of Union address, which the press is calling...
Accomplishments in this session of Congress on education-related front
Just got this pretty signfiicant list of education-related legislative accomplishments in the first two years of the Obama adminsitration in an e-mail from the National Education Association:
Arizona's Two Death Penalties
First, I am not picking on Arizona, just using it as one example; it is standing in for any state that uses similar methods to try and balance its budget.
Momentum on "don't ask, don't tell" repeal grows
This past week the Human Rights Campaign released this statement on the work to end homophobic discriminatory military policy:
Leadership and Crisis: a Question
It is not a very good Marxist practice to spread despondency about revolutionary prospects, but even Marx and Engels became worried towards the end of their lives about the likelihood of war and the power and ruthlessness of the bourgeoisie (the traditional name of the ruling class, with French origins) in defending their wealth and class position.
The death knell of DADT
After a federal judge refused a government plea for a stay on her decision overturning the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy which has been used to expel some 14,000 gay servicemembers, the Pentagon is ordering military recruiters to "not to ask service members or applicants about their sexual orientation, to treat the rank and file with dignity and respect, and to maintain good order and discipline," according to the Washington Post.
New Job Tracker Tool Highlights Corporate Abuses
Recently, I took a look at a new tool called JobTracker, which tracks job losses due to outsourcing and other corporate abuses put together by Working America.
The importance of the Steelworkers' recent steps
The United Steelworkers this week filed a petition with the US Trade Representative "identifying a broad array of Chinese policies and practices that threaten the future of America’s alternative and renewable energy sector." According to a USW statement:
Obama administration sends BP initial bill for oil spill
From Deepwater Horizon Incident
