By Barbara Winslow EDITORS NOTE If not planned well, guerilla theater–frequently an accompaniment to protests or sometimes the protest itself–can fall flat, can confuses more than enlighten, and can insult the very people it’s trying to reach. At its…
Hating the Rich
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz EDITOR’S NOTE: The following appeared on Counterpunch and MRzine sites in March 2007. We think it’s worth repeating given the further consolidation of power by the rich in the past seven years. “The rich are not…
“Inclusive Capitalism”? What an Oxymoron!!!
By Carol Hanisch The superrich are getting nervous that the great slurp up from the pockets of low and middle income working people into their own dangerously bulging ones is causing “unrest” around the world. Modern versions of Karl Marx’s…
Feminism Almost Always Needs a Modifier
By Linda Burnham Introductory remarks by Kathy Scarbrough A really terrific critique of Lean In, the bestseller by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandburg (see below), has been written by Linda Burnham, who was active in the Third World Women’s Alliance in…
A Practical Solution to an Urgent Need
Reprinted from Monthly Review, Volume 65, Number 11 (April 2014) http://monthlyreview.org/2014/04/01/practical-solution-urgent-need By Gregg Shotwell Gregg Shotwell is a retired UAW member who frequently contributes poems to the Blue Collar Review, and is the author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket Press,…
Happy International Workers Day!
To mark May Day we recommend Bev Grant’s song “We Were There.” The link takes you to a page with the song and video. http://bevgrant.com/we_were_there/