The UK government changing the law to make it very hard for unions to strike. Also, harder for unions to donate to a political party (but it's easy for rich people to donate).

Stephen Hawking says that a student today with his medical problems would not get the support needed to be able to study.

We must politicize disasters, such as the floods in Texas, that result from political decisions.

In the temperature and humidity of the Indian heat wave, physical labor without air conditioning is dangerous, but poor people can't afford to miss work. Thus, the dead are not limited to the old and sick.

French workers fight to their 35-hour work week, more or less.

In the US, where the government has abandoned workers, the 40-hour work week has been lost.

Limiting the work week is a way to give employment to more people. If the minimum wage and other public services (including medical care and education) are sufficient, it reduces poverty.

With all the increased efficiency of 60 years of technological advance, should poor Americans have to work longer hours now just to get by? That is a sign of the wrongs of our plutocratic government.

Businesses argue, "If you do this, you will lose the competition against other countries that allow businesses to make workers work longer and spread poverty there." I turn this around, and ask, why do those governments serve their people badly? Obviously, because they are taking the advice of those businesses.

Instead of corporate-power treaties such as TPP, we need workers-power treaties that will punish governments that don't support their own people against dooH niboR (Robin Hood in reverse).

Mohammed Soltan was sentenced to life imprisonment in Egypt for the crime of journalism. He launched a hunger strike, and after 16 months has been exiled to the US.

Many others imprisoned in Egypt for the same crime have not had such luck.