Roberta Wood
LATEST ARTICLES BY Roberta Wood
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Opinion
The reason Smithfield decided to slaughter workers along with the hogs
May 8, 2020Coronavirus is riding the waves of the capitalist economy. It’s a cruel, cold-blooded system that hurls human bodies into the maw of a ravenous virus.
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Labor
Virus conspires with drive for profit to ‘open the economy’
May 5, 2020What’s working against American families is that capitalism cannot abide by a process that allows people NOT to work, a process that shuts down the profit machine.
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U.S.
They’re putting our lives at risk to build stadiums and condos?
April 3, 2020While the CEOs shelter safe and sound in their homes, piling up their profits, the workers are on the construction sites risking sickness and death at the hands of the coronavirus.
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Opinion
For panicking capitalists, resuming profit flow trumps everything
March 25, 2020
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U.S.
Labor-backed candidate Tony Pecinovsky scores 48 percent in St. Louis race
March 15, 2019One voter remarked, "He's Communist, but who cares? He represents us! That’s the kind of person we need for alderman!”
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Politics
Butt-kissing Border Patrol union misleader hurts his own members
January 7, 2019A section of the working-class flock is misled into thinking their foxy bosses are going to invite them to a banquet in gratitude for helping them raid the other birds’ sanctuary.
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U.S.
Voter rights propositions look like winners in battleground state of Michigan
October 29, 2018With voter suppression sweeping the country, Michigan activists are going on the counteroffensive with an effort called “Promote the Vote.”
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U.S.
Thousands of striking hotel workers take over Chicago’s Magnificent Mile
September 14, 2018Workers are determined that the hotel owners and those guests who crossed picket lines will get no peace, and certainly very little sleep.
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