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Ed Childs, left, Chief Steward UNITE HERE Local 26 in Boston, Gilbert Johnson, president of AFSCME Local 82 at UW-Milwaukee and Larry Hales, right, national leader of the Bail Out The People Movement in Milwaukee August 14, 2011.

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While everyone is talking about Cyber Monday (and with the comments from the tangential about the classist nature of disparaging shopping for bargains for many families in mind), I’d just like to point you in the direction of Fair Indigo’s blog post about the impacts of free shipping on workers in the garment industry. This doesn’t even touch on the conditions workers face when they are working in the warehouses in the United States to ship products to consumers. Though there are certainly conversations to be had about classist aspects of critiquing shoppers in this week’s sales, we shouldn’t shy away from the impacts of these sales on those producing the products and those who work in the shipping warehouses. 

A rally of 35,000 demonstrators organized by Britain’s Trades Union Congress marched peacefully in Manchester, UK on Sunday to protest the opening of the Conservative Party’s annual conference.

A statement from the TUC had announced that it was “organising a march and rally to show opposition to the coalition government’s disastrous policies of pay freezes, cuts and attacks on public services that are producing rising unemployment, cuts in living standards and stagnation.” The march included both left-wing activists and members of public sector unions.

Several trade unions have called for a general strike on November 30. “If you never fight you lose every time,” union leader Mark Serwotka told the crowd. “Now’s the time to fight, now’s the time to defeat the government.”

Meanwhile, inside the Conservative Party conference, Britain’s foreign secretary was blaming the country’s economic problems on the previous Labour Party government and criticizing the current Labour leadership for being “too frightened” to tell the unions “it is not in the national interest for them to strike.”

(Source: theamericanbear, via socialistexan)

MLK Jr. (via pantslessprogressive)

Yessir. We shall overcome. 

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