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/
W.E.B. DuBois on the Meaning of Work
From a speech given in 1953: W.E.B. DuBois on the Meaning of Work
“How to Defang a Movement: Replacing the Political with the Personal”
“How to Defang a Movement:Replacing the Political with the Personal” was a panel presented at an unusual academic conference called A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the Late 1960s and the Early 1970s at Boston University on March 27-29, 2014.…