CSU Contract – What Happens Next Will Depend on What the Members are Ready to Do
The California State University (CSU) system found itself in a clash with the California Faculty Association (CFA), representing a diverse body of 28,000 faculty employees, including tenure-track and lecturers, counselors, librarians, and coaches. On January 22, the CFA launched a statewide strike, targeting all 23 CSU campuses. This coincided with the start of the spring […]
Argentina’s General Strike – Workers Stand Up Against President Milei’s Attacks
Last November, 55 percent of Argentinian voters elected the far-right “anarcho-capitalist” economist Javier Milei as president. Milei ran on a platform promising extreme measures to supposedly “fix” Argentina’s economy. The country has experienced record inflation, with the value of the peso dropping by 211 percent this year alone. Milei promised to “dollarize” the economy, removing […]
Neither Haley nor Biden Will Save Us
As the mainstream media has focused their attention on the horse race of the early Republican primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, they and their talking-heads and opinion writers have desperately clung to the hope that someone will come along to save us from Trump. In recent months, wealthy Republicans and even many rank-and-file Republicans […]