The end of October marks the anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash. The stock market plummeted on October 29, 1929, initiating the Great Depression. In the decade leading up to the crash, the United States had gone through an economic boom. The “Roaring Twenties”...
The two-week international conference on climate change, known as COP26 , has begun in Glasgow, Scotland. Over 130 national political leaders, including Joe Biden, attended the “summit” portion of the conference. Needless to say, there have been a lot of speeches....
After decades with very few strikes, this fall is seeing a mini strike wave with small strikes scattered throughout the U.S. And in the past month, there have been four major strikes: 2,000 Seattle carpenters just ended a winning strike; 1,400 workers at Kellogg’s...
More than 10,000 workers at John Deere, one of the largest farm equipment manufacturers in the U.S., went on strike last week at more than a dozen plants in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas — the first major walkout at the company in over three decades. Deere workers had...
Introduction With all of the challenges facing us today – environmental destruction, the public health crisis of the pandemic, the overall immiseration of many of our lives – we have plenty of reasons to look at the potential for a radically different society to meet...
