Category: Labor / Economics

Dockworkers in Italy secure victory as shipping companies announce return of Israeli-bound weapons cargo to its point of origin.

Review of Eric Blanc’s 2025 book ‘We Are the Union’ by long-time labor activist Kim Scipes.

The workers’ demands include higher wages, halting privatisation of state-run companies, withdrawal of new labour laws and filling vacancies in the government sector.  The farmers’ groups also want the government to increase the minimum purchase price for crops such as wheat and rice.Journalists in the eastern city of Kolkata reported protestors walking in a rally…

Since its 1804 revolution, Haiti has been punished for its freedom – crippled with debt, coups, and foreign meddling – but we must never forget that it was the first successful anti-imperialist revolution.

Article discusses the history and development of the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, which this author has been researching for almost 40 years, and his recent participation in the KMU’s 13 National Congress in late June (2025).

Cairo, Apr 17 (Prensa Latina) The Egyptian website, the Hispano-Arab League, criticized the United States’ campaign against Cuba, including attacks on Cuba’s medical cooperation with other nations.

There is much to be explored behind the much touted “intelligence” of these machines. Behind the illusion of “intelligence” are thousands of human laborers: labeling data, moderating toxic content, or training models for cents per hour. Workers in Kenya, for example, were paid less than $2/hour to label graphic and traumatic content for OpenAI’s safety…

Roberts explains the recent raft of tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on April 2, which Trump dubbed “Liberation Day” but was described by the Wall Street Journal as “the dumbest trade war in history”. Roberts outlines how they fit into Trump’s broader project to reassert US global hegemony, and what a left response…

Throughout history, trade restrictions have reshaped economies for good or for ill. As Trump increases tariffs across industries, it is clear that this move will not revitalize the economy as he claims. Rather, it stands to create further hardship for Black and working class people.