After 82 years of exploitation, workers on Firestone's rubber plantation in Liberia have finally signed a new collective bargaining agreement with company management. It has been a long struggle for workers to achieve independent and democratically elec

How bad is the current banking crisis?Just one bank alone - IndyMac - generated as many fraudulent loans as the entire Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s. How does today's crisis compare? Twice as big, five times as big, ten timesas big? Try 100 times

When a man suddenly turned in front of seven-year-old Scott Swimm on the ski mountain, Scott reacted and prevented a collision. Instead, he passed over the man's skis, and both Scott and the man lost their balance. As Scott stood up and tried to apologize

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"Job Loss/Homelessness Up - Capitalism's Latest Crisis" is the theme of a meeting at SEIU Local 721 in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 23, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 pm. Participants can discuss the nuts and bolts of this economic crisis

Each of these ideas is very simple to start, and most can be done as a sole proprietorship at first (meaning you don't have to file any legal documents to get started, though you will want to do that if it starts to take off).

"In effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF's power to create money and begin global 'quantitative easing'. In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body...."

Ronald Teska explains why two places half a world apart share similar experiences--because both are occupied territories of American energy companies.

Just days after announcing it would cut up to 1750 jobs and miss profit forecasts, Qantas has been forced to deny an aviation expert's claims that it will be 'dead in six months'.

A bankrupt General Motors Corp (GM.N) could be reorganized in as little as a month, a top bankruptcy attorney said