Detroit

Detroit declares war on pensioners

Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr’s “Plan of Adjustment” is a declaration of war on the city of Detroit’s 20,000 retirees and…

February 25, 2014

Volkswagen workers lost. Why?

From Feb. 12 to 14, hourly workers at Volkswagen’s four-year-old plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted on whether or not to…

February 20, 2014

Debt, Cuba and Detroit

The following is excerpted from a talk by Cheryl LaBash, an organizer for last summer’s Five Days for the Cuban…

February 15, 2014

Fifty years after ‘war on poverty,’ class divisions widen

Some five decades after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War on Poverty,” class divisions inside the U.S. are widening.…

February 14, 2014

Subprime loans drive auto recovery

The scramble for profits is again leading to overproduction and the pushing of high-interest loans, this time in the auto…

February 12, 2014

Porqué $1,3 millones que GM invierte, crean sólo un puesto de trabajo

El 13 de diciembre, la General Motors anunció con gran fanfarria que iba a invertir $1,3 mil millones de dólares,…

February 5, 2014

Why each $1.3 million GM invests creates just one job

On Dec. 13, General Motors announced with great fanfare that it was going to invest $1.3 billion, mostly in Flint,…

February 3, 2014

Court nixes giveaway to banks

Detroit -- In what the corporate media have called a “stunning blow” to Wall Street, two of the biggest capitalist…

January 27, 2014

Rebellion against banks rocks Spain

A mid-January mass rebellion in one neighborhood of a mid-sized city in north-central Spain beat back a rightist City Hall…

January 23, 2014

Dr. King’s struggle legacy and today’s crisis of the cities

The federal holiday that commemorates martyred civil rights, social justice and peace activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. takes…

January 20, 2014