Working Class

Don’t Shame The First Steps Of A Resistance

January 25, 2017 Staff, www.socialistworker.org Strategize! Multiracial Unity, Resistance, Working Class

By Staff of Socialist Worker - THE UNITED States has just experienced a corporate hijacking. If Trump's inaugural speech did not alert you to the fact that they intend to come after all of us, then you are not paying attention. The scale of the attack is as deep as it is wide, and this means that we will need a mass movement to confront it. To organize such a movement necessarily means that it will involve the previously uninitiated--those who are new to activism and organizing. We have to welcome those people and stop the arrogant and moralistic chastising of anyone who is not as "woke." The women's marches in Washington, D.C., and around the country were stunning, inspiring and the first of a million steps that will be needed to build the resistance to Trump.

Retirement Divide: 100 CEOs v. The Rest Of Us

January 20, 2017 Sarah Anderson, www.ips-dc.org Educate! Inequality, Ruling Class, Working Class

By Sarah Anderson for IPS-DC - A new report calculates the gap in retirement assets between the top 100 CEOs and all African-American, Latino, female-headed, and white working class households. (Washington, D.C. ) – The presidential election put a spotlight on the economic insecurity millions of voters are feeling as the result of the loss of millions of unionized factory jobs that were once a major source of both decent pay and retirement benefits. While white working class families have been the focus of much of this attention, a new Institute for Policy Studies report shows that the real retirement security divide lies between those at the top of corporate America and nearly all the rest of us.

Retirement Divide: 100 CEOs V. The Rest Of Us

December 19, 2016 Sarah Anderson, www.ips-dc.org Educate! Capitalism, CEO, Retirement, Ruling Class, Working Class

By Sarah Anderson for IPS - If President-elect Donald Trump succeeds in cutting the top marginal tax rate from 39.6 percent to 33 percent, Fortune 500 CEOs would save $196 million on the income taxes they would owe if they withdrew their tax-deferred funds. Unlike ordinary 401(k) holders, most top CEOs have no limits on annual contributions to their tax-deferred accounts. In 2015 alone, Fortune 500 CEOs saved $92 million on their taxes by putting $238 million more in these accounts than they could have if they were subject to the same rules as other workers.

International Multiracial Working Class To Trump: Waking Up A Sleeping Giant

November 11, 2016 Staff, www.www.popularesistance.org Resist! 2016 Elections, Capitalism, Donald Trump, Working Class

By Staff of Popular Resistance - Trump coming into office is a road out of other roads not taken. As a result, the veil has been lifted from more and more of us who have been made to live in fear and anxiety. It has taken us out from living our lives through snapchat or Love and Hip Hop in order to confront real life. It has impacted those of us who perhaps deep down inside would have been a little relieved if Hillary Clinton got elected. This road has disrupted the enchantment of somehow feeling accomplished for doing the most in terms of political contribution via voting when actually that should be the least.

Free People From ‘Dictatorship’ Of 0.01%

August 11, 2016 Vandana Shiva, www.asianage.com Resist! Dictatorship, Ruling Class, Working Class

By Vandana Shiva for The Asian Age - The only way to counter globalisation just a plot of land in some central place, keep it covered in grass, let there be a single tree, even a wild tree.” This is how dear friend and eminent writer Mahasweta Devi, who passed away on July 28, at the age of 90, quietly laid out her imagination for freedom in our times of corporate globalisation in one of her last talks. Our freedoms, she reminds us, are with grass and trees, with wildness and self-organisation (swaraj), when the dominant economic systems would tear down every tree and round up the last blade of grass.

Upheaval In The Factories Of Juarez

January 29, 2016 Alana Semuels, www.theatlantic.com Educate! Mexico, Protests, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs, Working Class

By Alana Semuels for The Atlantic - CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Women and men, more than 70 of them, were fired on December 9th from the factory on the Mexican side of the Mexico-Texas border where they made printers for the American company Lexmark. They say they were terminated because they were trying to form an independent union. The company says they were fired because they caused a “workplace disruption.” Now, the workers protest by occupying a makeshift shack outside the factory, still advocating for a raise and for a union, even though they no longer have jobs.

Sweden Moves To 6-Hour Work Day, Better For Everybody

October 14, 2015 Weinenkel, www.dailykos.com Create! Sweden, Working Class

By Weinenkel for Daily Kos - Sweden has been slowly, but surely, moving towards a 6-hour workday. Filimundus, an app developer based in the capital Stockholm, introduced the six-hour day last year. “The eight-hour work day is not as effective as one would think," Linus Feldt, the company’s CEO told Fast Company. "To stay focused on a specific work task for eight hours is a huge challenge. In order to cope, we mix in things and pauses to make the work day more endurable. At the same time, we are having it hard to manage our private life outside of work."

‘Justice Or Else’ For Black, Brown And Indigenous Americans

October 2, 2015 Reggie Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Racial Justice, Working Class

By Reggie Harris for The Huffington Post - Twenty years ago, there was a gathering of men in the U.S. Capital to address the exact issues that Black, Brown and Indigenous Americans are struggling against today. That gathering is known as the Million Man March. Its purpose was to bring attention to the issues of mass incarceration, low-paying jobs, joblessness, poverty, police brutality, low-quality education and inadequate housing among many others. The Honorable Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam served as the lead organization in bringing all of the March participants together, and the country hasn't seen anything like it since. Twenty years later, the struggle of Black, Brown and Indigenous Americans is getting worse.

We Are All Greeks Now

July 14, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Austerity, Europe, Greece, Poverty, Working Class

By Chris Hedges in Truth Dig - The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek. They know underemployment and unemployment. They know life without a pension. They know existence on a few dollars a day. They know gas and electricity being turned off because of unpaid bills. They know the crippling weight of debt. They know being sick and unable to afford medical care. They know the state seizing their meager assets, a process known in the United States as “civil asset forfeiture,” which has permitted American police agencies to confiscate more than $3 billion in cash and property. They know the profound despair and abandonment that come when schools, libraries, neighborhood health clinics, day care services, roads, bridges, public buildings and assistance programs are neglected or closed. They know the financial elites’ hijacking of democratic institutions to impose widespread misery in the name of austerity. They, like the Greeks, know what it is to be abandoned.

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