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INVESTIGATION: The Palestinian Struggle for Labor Rights in Israel
Hatem Abu Ziadeh’s face beams with pride as he recounts how several years ago his Israeli employer in one of Israel’s illegal settlements was forced to give him his job back after he was fired for...
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A 32-Hour Workweek Is Ours for the Taking
The United Auto Workers won many of their demands in their groundbreaking, six-week strike in 2023, but one of them — despite not making it into their new contracts with the Big Three automakers — has...
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“A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza...
We speak with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, about Israel’s ongoing attacks against aid workers in the Gaza Strip. Israel has admitted it killed seven volunteers with...
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U.S. Smear Campaign Against AMLO Backfires: Hated by Media, Loved in Polls
As Mexico prepares for its next presidential election in June, the U.S. corporate-owned media is working overtime to smear the outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his popular...
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Joint Statement: Canada Must Suspend Arms Trade with Israel
As Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza, which has resulted in a devastating number of civilian deaths, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE),...
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India’s Farmers Are Mobilizing Against the Modi Government
Just over three years ago, Indian farmers mobilized in one of the biggest social movements the country has seen for decades, and delivered a significant blow to the government of Narendra Modi. Since...
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Southern Auto Workers Are Rising
Auto workers are gearing up to smash through anti-union bulwarks in Alabama and Tennessee. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the only Volkswagen factory in the world without a union, votes will be counted...
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Public Housing Is Social Housing
Last month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders reintroduced the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, which would enable the spending of a much-needed $230 billion to...
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‘You Are an Inspiration,’ Sanders Tells LA Hotel Workers Fighting for Just...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined hospitality workers in downtown Los Angeles on Friday as they picketed outside one of the dozens of hotels that have yet to reach a contract deal with UNITE HERE Local...
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A Renter’s Tax Credit Would Help People Like Me Stay in Our Homes
I spent my first birthday in a shelter. Decades later, after doing all I was supposed to do to lift myself up out of poverty, I’m sofa hopping with my children. I’m a parent coordinator with the...
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The For-Profit Nursing Home Scam
Last June, an elderly stroke survivor residing at Chicago’s Lakeview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center fell to the floor while being transferred by mechanical lift from his bed to a shower chair. The...
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Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake
Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver of climate change. Burning fossil fuels and destroying forests have...
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The Green New Deal: From Below or from Above?
The original Green New Deal resolution took as its models not only the original New Deal but also the home front mobilization for World War II. A fully developed Green New Deal will need both the kind...
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Are EVs Truly the Greenest Form of Transportation?
A friend recently told me of a new study showing that the “life cycle” of electric vehicles (EVs) causes fewer CO2 emissions than gas-powered cars. This is important since research comparing greenhouse...
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Don’t Fear “Collectivism”
The capacity of the reactionary mind to invent catchall signifiers of supposed left-wing depravity often seems limitless. But in the canon of conservative epithets, there is probably none more common...
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Republicans Have Plans for Working People
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the...
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A Reply To Glenn Loury’s Appeal to the Court of Public Opinion on Behalf of...
Capitalism, the plastic bucket we are all crammed in for (give or take) 77.5 years, incentivizes the Seven Deadly Sins of the Roman Catholic Church. So much so that In March of 2008, the Vatican...
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Average US Taxpayer Contributed More to Militarism Than Medicare in 2023: Report
The average U.S. taxpayer was forced to contribute more to militarized programs than to Medicare and Medicaid combined in 2023, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the National Priorities...
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Indonesia’s Nepo Baby Takes Charge
On September 16, 2023, fire at Indonesia’s National Museum swept through the roof and back wall, causing the building to collapse. It remains closed. Officially no one was blamed. Down the street from...
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German Capitalism & German Neo-Nazis
Things seem to be different this time around. The current year, 2024, is unlike the year 1934 when Hitler solidified his fascist power ending democracy. Neither is it like 1939, the year when Hitler’s...
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