Editors' Blog
Dejavu All Over Again. The Struggle to Defend and Enforce Overtime Pay Labor Law by Norman Markowitz
In 1938, as the great upsurge of industrial union organizing and victories was beginning to ebb, Congress passed and Franklin Roosevelt signed the last great piece of comprehensive pro working people labor legislation, the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established minimum wages, the eight hour day, time and half rules...
July's Marxist IQ by Norman Markowitz-0
July is a very contradictory month in the history of socialism and of revolutionary and peoples movements. July 4 marks the U.S Declaration of Independence, a turning point in the American Revolution and one of the transforming revolutionary documents in modern history.
Free lBree Newsome and Free Us All from the Confederate Flage by Norman Markowitz
Brittany Bree Newsome, a courageous African-American woman, pulled down the Confederate flag after it was raised again following the memorial to the victims of the racist murders in Charleston, South Carolina. President Obama spoke at the memorial and eloquently called for the removal of the confederate flag. I doubt they...
Adding Insult to Injury in the Struggle to Save Worker Education by Norman Markowitz
You couldn't make this up. The embattled campaign to save the Worker Education program at Brooklyn Collete, which has widespread support among students, faculty and all City University alumni(of which i am one) now faces the housing of a Hedge Fund in its building. That reads like a scene our...
Adding Insult to Injury in the Struggle to Save Worker Education by Norman Markowitz
You couldn't make this up. The embattled campaign to save the Worker Education program at Brooklyn Collete, which has widespread support among students, faculty and all City University alumni(of which i am one) now faces the housing of a Hedge Fund in its building. That reads like a scene our...
Bill Moyers on Hillary Clinton by Norman Markowitz
Most people involved in progressive political action in the U.S., the broad left, are supporting Bernie Sanders for the Presidency. Many still hope that Elizabeth Warren, whom they believe could be both a stronger and a winning candidate will run. There is real division concerning the favorite and front-runnner, Hillary...
