The Exiles: Film about Native Americans Exiled in Their Own Land Revived

Sherman Alexie, who can be a real hoot, has some poignant things to say about this film revival."THE Exiles,” a film about American Indians living on the edge of downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, is both a chronicle and a casualty of neglect: a movie about a forsaken...

Governor with ‘prole chic’ tipped as John McCain’s sidekick

" ONE name has risen to the top of John McCain’s shortlist for vice-presidential running mate. Tim Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota, a trucker’s son and advocate of Republicanism for the masses, is the favourite to join his ticket, according to sources close to the...

Underpaid, easy to sack: UK's second class workforce

"The government will face a challenge from unions tomorrow over the impact of migration on Labour's core working-class voters. The use of agency workers, most of them migrants, to drive down the pay and conditions of British workers is the sort of contentious issue the Labour...

The Era Of The Common Man

"I came across an interesting post on the decade of Jacksonian Democracy in America. Ten short years of real liberty in America. The era of the common man."

Which Is True

"Here is an example of the classic case of the glass is half empty, the glass is half full...."

The Working Class Hates Their Jobs

"The workplace blues “Relatively high proportions of men and women who worked in sales or service, or processing or manufacturing or utilities were unhappy on the job. The same was true for men in administrative, financial or clerical jobs,” the report says....

The Navvies

"The Navvies were traveling labourers who built the Great Lakes Canals, the railroads and the mines in Canada and England."

Libertarian Youth For Labour

"Five Reasons Government is Bad for Labor"

Class War In Iran

"I find it interesting that the right wing embraces feminism in Iran while denoucing it at home. They embrace unions in Iran while attacking them at home. "

Ohio's Odd Numbers

Whichever way you shake it, or hold it to the light, there is something about the Ohio election that refuses to add up. In practically every case where lines were too long, or machines too few, the foul-up was in a Democratic county or precinct