John Funiciello

Workers in the fabled efficient and regimented factories in China, where all of the electronic toys that the western world uses every minute of every day, are becoming restless in the slave-like condition in which they toil. They are sick and tired of the long days, the long weeks, the often-dangerous conditions, the barbed-wire dormitories,…

The so-called �right to work� laws got some attention this week, when Indiana�s governor, Mitch Daniels, signed his own state�s �right to work� law, making it the 23rd state to enact laws that emasculate American workers in their workplaces. These laws are a primary reason for the U.S. decline in unionization of its workers and,…

The U.S. government is prepared to send a fully armed Coast Guard ship to escort an empty grain ship owned by a transnational corporation up the Columbia River to the port in Longview, Wash., where it will be loaded with grain by non-union labor in the next several days or weeks. The ship, owned by…

It has been three decades since Ronald Reagan broke the 11,500-member Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), and the relationship between capital and labor in America, always a nervous circling of adversaries at best, has never been the same. In firing the controllers, jailing its leaders, and blacklisting every member from ever working for the…

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,…

With the removal of the tents and other accoutrements of the �Occupy Albany� encampment from Academy Park on Dec. 22, 2011, across the street from New York�s Capitol, many people in the area believed that the �occupy� movement was over. It took the Democratic mayor of the state�s capital city a while but, with the…

There never was a great cry from the American people for what we now call free trade in a “global economy.” The only persistent call came from Corporate America, from commodity traders, from banks, from investment houses, from manufacturers (the shrinking base that existed), from everyone who had a stake in the exploitation of natural…

In a time of rampant fraud perpetrated on the American people by their government and by corporations that effectively control much of government, the outstanding example of fraud is “free trade” in the “global economy.” Unpaid-for wars that total trillions of dollars in ultimate cost, theft of pension and retirement funds, trillions more in bailouts…