Tag Archive: Social Benefits
How Workers and Management at One Company Teamed Up to Fight the Pandemic
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 01/12/2021
For months, Penny Burroughs kept a close eye on working conditions at PCI Pharma Services and worried about her colleagues contracting COVID-19. Burroughs and...
Full ArticleHow Decades of Local Activism Led to the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History
Released for Syndication: 01/06/2021
Due to decades of activism by a coalition of Indigenous groups, commercial fishers, concerned citizens and environmentalists, Oregon and California state governments have committed to removing four dams along the Klamath River.
Full ArticleThe D.C. Political Monopoly Just Does Not Get It
Released for Syndication: 12/23/2020
The spectacle of political “leaders” disconnected from basic social realities survived Trump’s defeat. He and his GOP had shown little grasp of the two...
Full ArticleWill the Dems Sell Us Out in the Midst of a Pandemic?
Released for Syndication: 12/21/2020
When politicians sell out to win, we all lose.
Full ArticleHow Georgia Voters Are Transforming America’s Future
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 12/18/2020
Vermeshia Slay burns up the phone lines these days, encouraging Georgia voters to join the burgeoning grassroots movement to transform America’s future. After delivering...
Full ArticleMillions of India’s Farmers Are in a Fight for Their Economic Lives
Released for Syndication: 12/18/2020
India’s Hindu fundamentalist government has pushed through a deregulatory agenda for years. Now it has taken on farmers who have nothing left to lose and who are refusing to back down.
Full ArticleIndia Can Already Afford a Welfare State—It Just Needs to Tax Its Wealthiest Citizens
Released for Syndication: 12/17/2020
Two taxes—inheritance and wealth—alone, levied only on the top 1 percent of the population, would be $196 billion and finance a welfare state in India.
Full ArticleWhy We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Released for Syndication: 12/11/2020
On this bicentenary of Friedrich Engels, we need to understand the struggle of ideas he was engaged in during his lifetime, and what significance it holds today.
Full ArticleHow to Cure America’s Vaccine Paranoia
Released for Syndication: 12/11/2020
The pandemic won’t end until we overcome our fear and loathing of scientific remedies and achieve “herd immunity”—but of the kind that is possible through mass vaccinations, not inaction.
Full ArticleIn Historic Move, House Votes to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition
Released for Syndication: 12/08/2020