Labor Beat: School Closing Hearings – NTA vs Real Estate Values
A hearing on January 9, 2018 — organized by Chicago Public Schools — ‘debated’ the threatened closing of the National Teachers Academy grade school. The facility [...]
Unity and Independence
AFL-CIO Convention Opens Discussion on Need to Break with ‘Lesser Evilism’
DOSSIER: LABOR & INDEPENDENT POLITICS AFL-CIO Convention Opens Discussion on Need To Break with “Lesser of Two Evils” Politics EDITORIAL On October 24, the AFL-CIO [...]
Report on Binational Conference to Cancel NAFTA and Tear Down the Wall
• PRESENTATION On December 2-3, 2017, the Binational Conference to Cancel NAFTA, Tear Down the Wall of Shame / End All Deportations, Stop Privatizations, and Promote Labor [...]
JUST SAY NO TO NAFTA!
A blog by Marty Hart-Landsberg (www.economicfront.wordpress.com) November 18, 2017 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is unpopular with many [...]
If We Want to Stop Washington’s Wars, We Have a Lot of Work to Do
By the Labor Fightback Network Steering Committee The second week of August is a time when peace activists throughout the United States pause to remember the holocaust that [...]
Summary of the Decisions of the Third National Labor Fightback Conference (Cleveland, Ohio — July 21-23, 2017)
[Note: The following report, with its summary of the conference decisions, was presented by Alan Benjamin, on behalf of the Steering Committee of the Labor Fightback Network. [...]
Defend DACA, Not One More Deportation!
By Labor Fightback Network On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration announced that it was ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, over the next six [...]
U.S. Out of Syria Now! It’s Time for Unity in the Streets!
By Labor Fightback Network On April 6, 2017, President Donald John Trump ordered a massive missile barrage on the Shayrat Air Base in Syria’s Homs province. It was an [...]
Interview with Gene Bruskin, long-time union organizer, co-founder of U.S. Labor Against the War
Question: What is your reaction to the Trump address to the joint session of Congress? Gene Bruskin: Up till now, Trump has shot himself in the foot with his outrageous [...]
Interview with Nancy Wohlforth, Secretary-Treasurer Emerita, OPEIU
Question: What is your reaction to the Trump address to the joint session of Congress? Nancy Wohlforth: I am absolutely appalled. Trump announced that he was seeking an [...]
