US: The Democrats’ class war

By David Sirota

For all the hype about generational and gender wars in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, we have a class war on our hands. And incredibly, corporate America’s preferred candidate is winning the poorer “us” versus the wealthier “them” – a potentially decisive trend with the contest now moving to working-class bastions like Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Skoda’s agency accused of exploiting Polish workers

By Victor Velek

Škoda Auto has long been admired by businesses as a model of success, locally and internationally. But as the new year got under way, the Volkswagen-owned automaker caught a glitch in its transmission, encountering a problem coming from an unlikely source, Poland.