On December 5, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that U.S. employers slashed over half a million jobs in November. At almost the same hour, the Republic Windows and Doors plant in Chicago was scheduled to close its doors. But the furious 240 workers refused to take it lying down. The largely immigrant and black workers took over Republic and occupied the plant, vowing to hold fast until they won the vacation pay and severance pay owed them. On the sixth day of the occupation, J.P.

A Kasama reader wrote: “Detroit rapper Invincible played several WCW benefit shows. She’s overtly political–coming out swinging for Palestinians and gay rights, teaching about gentrification and the ravages of capitalism. She has done several tracks with D local Finale. We love her. She’s got a lot stacked against her in the [...]

Los resultados políticos a 30 meses de gestión gubernamental (enero 2006 – agosto 2007) muestran una aceptación y crecimiento electoral jamás visto hasta ahora en nuestra historia

Last year, we helped lead a successful campaign against Facebook's privacy invading beacon program. When Facebook refused to drop Beacon, we got their advertisers to drop them. When Facebook said they dropped Beacon, we showed that they lied.

“If we are going to expel people over their association with organizations vaguely associated bloodshed and violence, then why are we not expelling the great conspiracy of Democrats from SDS?”
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A World to Win…?
Or: Timely Thoughts on Untimely Factionalism
By Hegemonik
(Kasama is sharing this post as part of a series of commentaries from [...]

"Se debe tener en cuenta que somos personas que hemos aprendido a la práctica y en el día a día a defender nuestros derechos...pocos de nosotros tienen una militancia o agrupación anterior..."

by Mike Ely
The following is the first public description of the process by which Avakian seized, transformed and purged the RCP over the last few years (in a “rectification” movement process Avakian calls the RCP’s “cultural revolution”). It is a struggle that is still ongoing within and around the RCP, continually forcing numbers of former members [...]

We have received this eyewitness report from our correspondent in Santa Cruz on the latest developments in Bolivia. Later in the day, we will publish an analysis by Jorge Martin on the ongoing coup attempt in Bolivia.

Today, the Large Hadron Collider went online.  It is a 17-mile long chamber 300 feet under the Swiss-French border.  It is the world’s largest particle collider and is expected to eventually produce conditions in the universe one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.  Scientists anticipate that this will shed new light on the  origins [...]

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