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Brooks: Business-Backed ‘Anti-Union Union’ Falters at Volkswagen
Tennessee’s infamous anti-union union is fading away for lack of members. Will Volkswagen’s rationale for keeping out a real union crumble with it?
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Wainwright: The new politics isn’t just protest – it’s about change from the ground up
This is about creating lasting solutions that both prefigure and prepare for an end to austerity politics,
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Cockburn: Saudi Arabia is showing signs of financial strain as its relationship with the US sours
Workers in the Saudi desert are not only no longer receiving wages, supplies of food and electricity have also been cut
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Morken: South Africa: Rising anger as mass student protests return
On Tuesday, September 20, mass student protests erupted across the country after Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande announced that universities can raise tuition fees by up to 8% next year
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Bello: How Middle-Class Chileans Contributed to the Overthrow of Salvador Allende
American intervention was one factor leading to the Chilean coup—but unrest on the part of middle-class Chileans was another
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Gupta: The Left Underestimates the Danger of Trump
In reality, all the recent organizing gains will whither as the left is forced to wage losing defensive struggles against violent white nationalists
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Queally: As Tribes Fight Pipeline, Internal AFL-CIO Letter Exposes ‘Very Real Split’
Leaked letter circulated within nation's largest labor federation illustrates troubling disconnect when what working people deserve and what climate science compels are actually the same thing
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It is time that we organize a passionate, committed, economic boycott. It must be painful. It must be unified
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Zirin: A symbol that spread through the sports world
Interview about the tide of protest that has rolled over football at all levels and far beyond since Kaepernick's action
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Hamilton: Why I am on the Women’s Boat to Gaza
In twenty-four hours, I will join the women on the third leg of the trip to Messina, Sicily, and from there the Zaytouna-Oliva will proceed to its final destination: Gaza
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Singh: Farmworkers Taste the Fruits of Victory
After three years of tireless organizing, 500 farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington state have finally won union recognition
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Emanuele: The Riots Will Continue
The issues of policing, systemic racism, systemic economic inequality and political corruption will only become more prominent as existing institutions become increasingly militarized and violent
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Lazare: Charlotte Cops Dig In, Won’t Release Video; Opposition to Police Terror Builds
"One of the major problems with reporting on police violence is the degree to which police statements are treated as the gold standard of information instead of being treated with the skepticism they deserve"
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Grossman: An Omen for the 2017 German Federal Elections?
Last Saturday, one day before the Berlin vote, there were demonstrations against CETA and TTIP in seven major cities, supported by many organizations on the left
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Naureckas: Dakota Access Blackout Continues on ABC, NBC News
Rock legend Neil Young released a song called “Indian Givers” in support of the Dakota Access mobilization. The chorus of the song repeats, “I wish somebody would share the news.”
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Zirin: Bigots Beware: White Athletes Are Becoming Sympathetic to Anthem Protests
Do you want to make 1968 Olympic medalist John Carlos...
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Ansara: The lousy reason I didn’t vote in 1968 — and why Sanders supporters shouldn’t fall for it
I thought there was no difference between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. I was wrong.
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Protests escalated in Charlotte, North Carolina, when hundreds took to the streets to express outrage over the police shooting of 43-year-old African American Keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday
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Hanrahan: ‘The Bodies of Prisoners Are Commodities’
Every single budget decision in local, state, county, federal–is based almost entirely on what we’re spending for our prisons
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Marxologists typically do all their quoting not caring that it makes normal people want to run and hide due to anticipating they will hear regurgitated unexplained old fashioned jargon
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Daniels: In Defense of Kaepernick
The uproar continues over San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s...
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Larkins: From#Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation
Taylor argues that, yes, America can be racist despite Black leaders, and, in fact, such superficial gains for Blacks mask far-reaching structural discrimination in housing, education, employment, and policing.
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Latin American Movements and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn are the subjects of books being reviewed in this issue.
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LaTour: The Two Troublemaking Idas
This is the story of two women named Ida—Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) and Ida B. Wells (1862- 1931).
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Garson: Fifty Years Later, Who Really Won the Battle of Berkeley?
the people we beat in Berkeley also had a vision for America. It can be roughly summarized as, “More for me: less for you.” In the decades that followed, they learned to pressure regulators, legislatures, and Presidents far more effectively than they pressured our university Administration.
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Giroux: Trump and the Enablers of American Authoritarianism (2/2)
'Lesser evilism' is the wrong way to frame the elections - it's about what's better for the strategic interests of an independent people's struggle
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Rasmus: Labor Uprising in France
Massive labor actions have been roiling France, as unions protest the policies of the nominally Socialist government
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