Recently added articles from CCPA Monitor:
WORKERS' RIGHTS VIOLATED: Anti-labour tactics reduce U.S. unionization to 12.4%
Jul 01, 2009; ... A new study of 1,004 union organizing drives by a Cornell University professor has found that U.S. employers threatened to close plants in 57% of the campaigns and threatened to cut wages and benefits in 47% of them. The study - by Kate Bronfenbrenner, the university's director of labour ...
Worth Quoting
Jul 01, 2009; ... Corporate socialism "Building on the bank bailout of the waning days of the Bush era, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, economic advisor Larry Summers, and the rest of Barack Obama's merry band of Wall Street revolutionaries have committed at least $4 trillion in cash, credit and ...
China INDEX
Jul 01, 2009; ... * The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has ruled China as a totalitarian regime since 1949. The CCP now has nearly 70 million membeTS. Initially representing the working masses, the party's peasant and worker membership dropped from 66% in 1978 to just 29% by 2005. Today, 23% of party members are ...
EDITORIAL: Wrong recession remedies
Jul 01, 2009; ... As the Great Recession deepens on a global scale, there is a sense of false optimism about its gravity among our economic and political élites. Many Canadians seem to have been persuaded by the Harper government's claim that, thanks to our superior banking system and the government's economic ...
TAXATION AND POVERTY: Injustice built into our tax system hurts poor the most
Jun 01, 2009; ... Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously declared: "I don't mind paying taxes. They buy me civilization." I completely agree. But in the last 28 years, tax policies have been ever more biased in favour of powerful special interests which dominate our society and ...