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“Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Not Only Cruel, They Also Have an Economic Cost”–David Wilson, via Truthout

“Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Not Only Cruel, They Also Have an Economic Cost”–David Wilson, via Truthout

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the government agency that processes visas, green cards and citizenship applications, claims it’s going broke. USCIS officials are threatening to furlough some 13,400 employees as early as August 30, after initially planning the measure for August 3. The furloughs would add to what was already a huge backlog in application processing, creating a disaster for tens of thousands of immigrant applicants. As many as 126,000 people already approved for citizenship may not be naturalized in time to register for the November elections....

Counterfire reviews Cal Winslow’s “Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919”

Counterfire reviews Cal Winslow’s “Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919”

"On Thursday February 6, 1919, at 10:00 am, Seattle’s workers struck. The Seattle general strike is the only general strike in US history. It lasted for five days during which nothing in Seattle moved. Hotel guests were politely informed that room service and restaurant facilities would resume after the strike. Telephone operators, women’s barbers, Japanese service workers, lumbermen, shingle weavers, longshoremen, and just about everybody else, came out on strike in support of Seattle’s shipyard workers...."

Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism considers “Cuban Health Care”

"This book gives an excellent account of the nature, history and achievements of the Cuban health system. It is fairly lengthy, quite detailed, heavily documented, and easy to read. It has implications and lessons that go well beyond the health of people, to the nature of healthy social systems, dramatically evident in the comparison the book gives between Cuba and the USA..."

When Washington (Almost) Went Socialist: Seattle’s General Strike of 1919: Listen to Cal Winslow tell it…

When Washington (Almost) Went Socialist: Seattle’s General Strike of 1919: Listen to Cal Winslow tell it…

Cal Winslow, labor activist, educator, and author of the recently released Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919, talks about the amazing popular takeover of of Seattle over a hundred years ago, when, on a grey winter morning in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Start listening, about 8 minutes into Letters and Politics, hosted by Mitch Jeserich, on Radio KPFA...