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For 10 years after Silkwood’s death, the full report was marked as classified

On the night of Karen Silkwood’s untimely death, she had arranged to meet with a New York Times journalist to expose a nuclear facility near Cimarron City.

BG1069:  Top Ten Political Slush Funds

Under the leadership of President George W. Bush, who has made competitive bidding for the provision of government services a priority, the Administration has begun to take serious steps to expand competition for federal grants. This is wise policy. Besides promoting basic fairness, competitive bidding encourages greater efficiencies and cost savings.

Labour Day is tomorrow, and for labour activists, its real meaning is about more than barbecues and long weekends.

Noam Chomsky, the well-known linguist, author, and social critic, joins Asher Miller in Crazy Town to discuss the failures and dominance of neoliberalism.

Paul Hampton reviews True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party in the US by Eric Chester (Pluto 2004, £14.99) The debate about working class representation in the United States takes place in very different conditions from those we encounter in Britain. However, discussions on the US left over the last hundred years are very instructive — both for our concerns in Britain and for American comrades today. True Mission discusses the history of third party efforts in the United States over the...

Just transition is anything but vague. Complex, yes. Controversial, maybe. But certainly not vague.

“Climate catastrophe is the ultimate form of precarity. There are no jobs on a doomed planet.”