Subjects Archives: Labor

In 2024, 64 countries and the EU will hold elections. Amid the corrupting influence of money, power, and corrosive discourse, the search for a genuine democratic spirit continues.

A distinction is drawn in economics between demand-constrained systems and resource-constrained systems (which for simplicity and symmetry we shall call supply-constrained systems).

Marx studied UK manufacturing industries, at that time the most representative of world capitalist development, unveiling the general law of the development of capitalist societies more than 150 years ago.

The Amazon Labor Union and the Teamsters have signed an affiliation agreement.

An establishment friendly history of the first Labour government, in 1924, shows how willingly a Labour leadership can be captured by the ruling class, finds John Westmoreland.

It’s the biggest organizing wave the U.S. labor movement has seen in decades.

Indian propagandists talk of India’s “emerging status as a technological powerhouse”, and the heads of the world’s largest technology corporations have started to refer to India as a global technology/software “superpower”, at least in their interactions with Indian media outlets.

After his brief space journey in July 2021, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos said, with disarming frankness, “I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all of this.”

As the Occupy protests of 2011 exhausted themselves, a dramatic turn from protests to politics surfaced.

The very laws designed to safeguard rights and freedoms often act as invisible shackles.

Blue Bottle rakes in hundreds of billions a year. 

Lean production, introduced in the 1980s from Japanese automakers, caught on in many U.S. industries.

Southern politicians who sold their souls to the corporations and banks are a bit rattled right now, and who can blame them? Volkswagen workers won big in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when 73% of plant workers voted to join the United Auto Workers Union.

The two phenomena, a reduction in real wages and a reduction in employment opportunities, in fact go together.

Zoomers and millennials want to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs.

This dossier looks at the history and unfinished work of women’s liberation in the German Democratic Republic, such as its achievements, legacy, and the challenges it faced.

This is an updated version of the “People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy” that Countercurrents.org published on 15th August 2020, where we set out a broad framework on how India should develop in an age of “Polycrisis”

In his March 6 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden declared, “We have the best economy in the world.” He said millions of new jobs had been created in the last three years and that unemployment was at record lows.

Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people.

A relationship between a U.S. and a Mexican union, forged in the face of NAFTA, has borne fruit over decades of struggle. Two leaders reflect on the importance of international solidarity.