Saturday May 18, 2013
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Minnesota FRSO May Day celebration: “We are up against a real monster, a system called capitalism”
BY Jess Sundin | Minneapolis, MN | 5/05/13
Fight Back News Service is reprinting the speech of Jess Sundin, a leader of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, delivered at the FRSO-organized May Day celebration, May 3.
Assata Shakur, Capitalism, FBI Repression, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, immigrant rights, international workers day, Jess Sundin, May 1, Socialism, US imperialism, workers rights
Save Public Schools Night exposes destruction of public education
BY David Hungerford | Irvington, NJ | 3/17/13
The Coalition to Save Our Homes held Save Public Schools Night here on March 11.
Capitalism, Coalition to Save Our Homes, Education Rights, Home Foreclosures, Public Schools, Wall Street
“Our lives are worth more than Mittal's profits”
BY Workers Party of Belgium | Belgium | 1/31/13
Fight Back New Service is circulating the following statement from the Workers Party of Belgium (PTB).
ArcelorMittal, Capitalism, factory occupation, Workers Party of Belgium
Increase in payroll tax surprises many workers
BY Masao Suzuki | San José, CA | 1/25/13
Starting Jan. 1, payroll taxes paid by workers went up from 4.2% to 6.2%. This increase will affect about 77% of all households.
Capitalism, income tax, payroll taxes, Tax the rich, worker's rights
Republicans ‘blink’ and agree to raise debt ceiling for 3 months
BY Masao Suzuki | San José, CA | 1/25/13
On Jan. 23, Congressional Republicans caved in and voted for a three-month extension to the Federal Debt Limit.
Capitalism, Federal Debt Limit, Medicare, Social Security
Federal government on course for austerity in 2013
BY Fight Back! Editors | United States | 9/25/12
The federal government is on course for large spending cuts and tax increases starting January of 2013.
Capitalism, Emergency Unemployment Compensation, Federal Unemployment Insurance, fiscal cliff, tax cuts
Extend and expand unemployment benefits
BY Fight Back! Editors | United States | 9/22/12
Millions of people are out of work. Those who are laid off are being foreclosed out of their homes, losing health care, and finding it harder and harder to make ends meet.
Capitalism, Economic Crisis, Extended Unemployment Compensation
Locked out American Crystal Sugar workers rally support in Minneapolis
BY Staff | Minneapolis, MN | 8/25/12
On August 21, 75 people attended a dinner in solidarity with American Crystal Sugar workers who have been locked out by their employer for over a year.
American Crystal Sugar, Capitalism, class struggle unionism
Romney’s proposal for Medicare would benefit insurance companies, raise costs for seniors
BY Masao Suzuki | United States | 8/24/12
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been attacking the Obama administration for “cutting” Medicare, and Romney has promised to restore these cuts.
1%, Capitalism, Medicare, Mitt Romney, Republican Agenda, RNC 2012
Corporate Welfare: John Krenicki, Mitt Romney, paid not to work
BY Staff | San Francisco, CA | 8/02/12
While millions of retired Americans are struggling to make ends meet and millions more working people who have been laid off don’t know how or if they can ever afford to retire, laid-off corporate executives are living in another world.
Capitalism, corporate profits, RNC 2012, Wall Street, welfare
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