Submitted by sep on October 8, 2009 - 8:00pm
Wednesday’s lineup of tens of thousands of people seeking housing assistance in Detroit is one of those events that suddenly reveals the social reality in America that is ignored and concealed by the media and political establishment.
The unemployed workers, young mothers with children, disabled and elderly people and jobless youth who lined up in downtown Detroit put a human face on rising jobless and poverty statistics and provided a glimpse of the staggering scale of the social crisis in the US.
Submitted by sep on August 25, 2009 - 1:00am
The Socialist Equality Party calls on all teachers and school employees to fight for a unified struggle, alongside workers throughout the city and state, to defeat the demand for wage and benefit concessions, layoffs and the gutting of public education and other basic services by big business and the Democrats and Republicans.
Submitted by sep on August 19, 2009 - 1:00am
Detroit city workers opposed to Mayor David Bing’s demands for layoffs and furloughs require a new strategy.
No sooner was the primary election over than Bing stepped up his attack on city workers. The city is planning 500 layoffs this month, on top of the hundreds already implemented since May. The mayor wants the city’s 13,000 employees to accept pay cuts of 10 to 20 percent through furloughs and workweek reductions.
Submitted by sep on August 6, 2009 - 1:00am
I want to thank everyone who supported and volunteered for the Socialist Equality Party’s campaign for Detroit mayor, along with the more than 1,200 people who voted for me in the primary elections on Tuesday.
This vote is very significant. Despite a virtual media blackout of our campaign, a significant layer of the Detroit working class made a conscious decision to vote for a socialist candidate.
