Dan La Botz

5 days ago | newpol.org | Dan La Botz

I first met Jorge Mújica about forty years ago when my wife and I were living in Mexico. I was working with and writing about Mexican workers and their unions and my wife Sherry Baron was studying workers’ health and safety. Jorge was then organizing workers just as he is today. I remember he gave the two of us a wonderful educational talk about mapping health and safety hazards in the workplace.

6 days ago | internationalviewpoint.org | Dan La Botz

The 1920s Red Scare, in the wake of the Russian Revolution of October 1917, and immediately provoked by self-proclaimed anarchists sending bombs to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes, led the U.S. government to arrest thousands of anarchists, Socialists, and Communists, including several thousand immigrants from Russia, Eastern Europe, and Southern Europe who were deported.

1 week ago | lanticapitaliste.org | Dan La Botz |traduction Henri Wilno

Actualité Budget de Trump : plus d’inégalités et de corruption La semaine dernière, la Chambre des représentantEs, dominée par le Parti Républicain, a adopté par 215 voix contre 214 le « Big Beautiful Bill », comme l’appelle le président Donald Trump, qui accorde de nouvelles réductions d’impôts aux riches et plus d’argent à l’armée tout en réduisant toute une série de programmes sociaux destinés aux classes ouvrières et aux pauvres.

1 week ago | newpol.org | Dan La Botz

Trump’s April 2025 tariff blitz ignited market chaos and deepened rifts within his own coalition. Beneath the turmoil lies a battle between technocrats, ultranationalists, and anti-imperial populists, all vying to reshape—or destroy—American global power. On April 2, 2025, Donald Trump declared a “Day of Liberation” and slapped massive tariffs on most countries—excluding Russia but including a 50% tariff on Lesotho.

1 week ago | internationalviewpoint.org | Dan La Botz

At the same time the bill provides more money to the military and to the immigration authorities. But despite the cuts to social programs, the bill will increase the national debt by about $3.3 trillion. The bill now goes to the Senate, also with a Republican majority, which will amend the bill; then the two houses must reconcile their differences. Still in the end the law will be devastating for the poor and a bonanza for the rich.