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On 4 September, thousands of fast food workers and other service industry employees (including home healthcare workers), backed by both the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) and UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers), held strikes and protests in cities in California, Missouri, Wisconsin, New York, and elsewhere in the United States, for respect, improved benefits, the right to organise, and for a $15 minimum wage. Hundreds of workers and supporters were arrested. The “Fight for 15”, a movement by fast food and other low-paid workers across America, began in November 2012...

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Conditions in the USA are now in many ways favourable to to a 3rd party based on the unions. Download PDF

On 9 August Michael Brown was shot as he walked down the street in his home neighbourhood in Ferguson Missouri, USA. Michael, a black 18 year-old with no criminal record, was shot with his hands up by white police officer Darren Wilson. Dorian Johnson, a friend who was with Michael at the time, described how a police car pulled up and an officer asked them to move onto the pavement. The officer pulled his car around to block the road, and tried to pull Michael into the car, at no point stating he was being arrested or giving any grounds for arrest. When Michael tried to run away he was shot...

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James P Cannon Catholic Action: A rift in the Iron Curtain, by James P Cannon (1947) The Catholic Church 1: From Hollywood To Rome (1951) The Catholic Church 2: Church and State The Catholic Church 3: The Protestant Counter-attack Max Shachtman Fighting sin or fighting capital? A Debate on Socialism and Religion (1949) Appendices The truth about Marxism and religion The Left's accommodation with Islam now and the 1960's Stalinist “dialogue between Marxism and Christianity” (1967)

Taking advantage of what is left of my rights, I hereby serve notice of intention to join in the public discussions stirred up by President Truman's decision to send a United States ambassador to the Vatican. And if you expect me to be calm and politely restrained in my utterances, you're in for a disappointment. I was burned up about the encroachments of authoritarian clericalism long before the President's decision was announced. His latest stroke of statesmanship just added a little fuel to the flames which have been scaring my tender flesh. This is not a debate, properly speaking. From the...

Taking advantage of what is left of my rights, I hereby serve notice of intention to join in the public discussions stirred up by President Truman's decision to send a United States ambassador to the Vatican. And if you expect me to be calm and politely restrained in my utterances, you're in for a disappointment. I was burned up about the encroachments of authoritarian clericalism long before the President's decision was announced. His latest stroke of statesmanship just added a little fuel to the flames which have been scaring my tender flesh. This is not a debate, properly speaking. From the...