A reservoir containing waste-water from a former phosphate mine in Piney Point, Florida, just off of Tampa Bay, leaked last month into a 79-acre system of ponds. The waste-water contains many dangerous chemicals, including significant amounts of radioactive materials,...
April 5, 2021, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, Translated from French President Macron announced our third lockdown last week. All child care facilities and schools will close, and the school calendar will change, with...
In the most closely watched unionization drive in years, fewer than half of the nearly 6,000 workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, voted 1,798 to 738 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The mainstream...
In 2020, fifty-five of the biggest, most profitable corporations in the U.S. paid zero taxes, while hundreds paid far less than the official 21% corporate tax rate. These corporations include FedEx, Dish Network, Duke Energy, Nike and other household names, as well as...
In order to prevent a steel strike in the middle of the Korean War, on April 8th, 1952, Democratic President Harry Truman ordered the temporary seizure, or nationalization, of the nation’s steel mills. Although the steel company owners decried the action as government...
