Stories by Bill Fletcher, Jr.

 Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, on the editorial board of BlackCommentator.com, the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum, and the author of “They’re Bankrupting Us” – And Twenty Other Myths about Unions. Follow him at www.billfletcherjr.com.  subscribe to Bill Fletcher, Jr.'s feed

Shattered Peace Talks and Grinding Conflict: How U.S. Support Bolsters the Philippines' War on Dissidents

Posted on: Jun 14, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The government of the Philippines has continued to harass the opposition and extrajudicially kill dissenters.

Crisis in West Africa: Where Neocolonialism Meets Fundamentalism--With Dire Consequences for Mali's People

Posted on: Feb 4, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The French intervention in Mali further complicates a descent into hell which that country has been experiencing for the last two years.

The Significance of Jerry Tucker

Posted on: Oct 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The October 19th passing of noted labor activist Jerry Tucker sent shock waves throughout the labor movement.

How to Get People to Go After Bankers and Financiers and Stop Attacking Public Employees

Posted on: Jul 15, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

Bill Moyers talks to experienced organizers Stephen Lerner and Bill Fletcher, Jr. about what it will take to really revitalize the labor movement.

The Cancer of Voter Suppression: The GOP's Silent Coup

Posted on: Mar 2, 2012, Source: AFL-CIO

Republican-led efforts in more than a dozen states are rolling back the 20th Century's civil rights gains.

Revolutionary Jose Maria Sison on US Imperialism and a Way Forward for the Philippines

Posted on: Jan 22, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The US government claims he's a supporter of terrorism. Millions of others consider Sison a Marxist theorist and revolutionary.