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Fascinating pamphlet by Solidarity on the informal workers struggle against the frenetic pace of work at a General Motors plant, and the later co-optation of the struggle by the auto workers union.

Article examining the role of unions in the exploitation of workers, focussing in particular on the US car manufacturing industry from the 1930s to 1970s.

Vin Diesel's net worth comes largely from his acting work, but it's also impacted by his production company, car collection, and more.

Richard Roat, a versatile character actor whose half-century-long career was punctuated by notable guest appearances on three of the most popular sitc

Bertie Carvel is brilliant in The 47th, Mike Bartlett’s ingenious play about the former US president, but the real parallel is not with the Bard’s kings but his hollow braggarts

Barbara Garson is the author of a series of books describing American working lives at historical turning points, including All the Livelong Day (1975), The Electronic Sweatshop (1988) and Money Makes the World Go Around (2001). Her new book, just published, is Down the Up Escalator: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession (Doubleday).

Fascinating pamphlet by Solidarity on the informal workers struggle against the frenetic pace of work at a General Motors plant, and the later co-optation of the struggle by the auto workers union.

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Long, long ago, in the moss-encrusted year of 1967 — when Shakespeare was still on high school reading lists and most of the population was capable of recognizing simple literary allusions — an obscure left-wing writer named Barbara Garson enjoyed her fifteen minutes of fame by attacking President Lyndon Johnson and his long-suffering wife in a lightweight but heavy-handed parody of “Macbeth.” She called it “MacBird” and the cast of characters was headed by Lord an...

by Jayantha Gunasekera, PC November 22, 1963 is a day of sad remembrance for the Americans because it was on that fateful day that their beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald who concealed himself in the Texas School Book Depository to carry out this dastardly act.   President Kennedy, with his wife, Jackie, and  Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, were in a motorcade, traveling in an open hooded presidential limousine (a Ford Linc...

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