The capitalist class is in deep crisis, and facing the necessity of taking extreme measures to restructure capital for its continued survival and reproduction. The struggle among them over how to handle this has been intensifying over the past 20 years or so, and is becoming ever more politically antagonistic. Even their bourgeois democratic structures [...]

The minimum wage demanded by garment workers in Haiti is almost nothing compared to the lowest wage allowed by law in the United States:  Only $11.50/day or $1.44/hour. But it will go a long way to improving the lives of these workers. The current minimum wage is only 300 gourdes (85 cents an hour), and [...]