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• Ashly: The Canadian Mining Company Dominicans Call “Worse Than Columbus”

  “We had no concept of what the devil was until Barrick Gold came to our lands”
• Turner: What’s at stake for the left in Unite’s General Secretary election?

  This is not just about driving the organising programme, it is also about building a union that can defend jobs and deliver better pay and conditions
• Kramer: Half of the tech workforce wants to join a union

  In a survey of tech industry workers, about 50% of respondents said they are very or somewhat interested in joining a union in their workplace, and more than 60% of millennials said they were interested.
• Zhang: Biden Echoes Progressives, Saying Low Wages Are Driving Worker Shortage

  Biden pointed out that workers have shouldered disproportionate blame for businesses not being able to find workers
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  Reich: Worker Power

  The working people of America, outnumber the corporate executives and big investors by a wide margin. Together, you can change the rules, and build a world where workers have real power
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  Nolan: As Devastating Plant Shutdown Looms in West Virginia, National Outrage Is Hard to Find

  A union set to be wiped out by layoffs says politicians are missing in action
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  Lazare: Big Pharma Is Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies in the Global South

  The chilling effect of the pharmaceutical industry’s veiled threats
• Hartmann: Healthcare Parasites are Sucking Americans Dry

  The only way to deal with parasites is to remove them from their host. It’s time to expand Medicare to all Americans so we can dislodge these healthcare parasites from our body politic
• McCoy: Physicians Have Duty to Confront Exploitative Industry That Employs Them

  Ultimately, it is crucial for the care of patients and the movement toward health justice that physicians align as workers and witnesses
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  Baker: The Drug Companies Are Killing People

  It is essential to do everything possible to accelerate the distribution of vaccines. It is long past time that we started taking the pandemic seriously
• Zhang: Bernie Sanders Is the Real Force Behind the $3.5T Reconciliation Bill

  Over the past months, Sanders has been exercising a much stronger influence over the White House and Washington at large than he previously has
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  Wolff: The United States Underestimates China’s Economic Challenge at Its Own Peril

  Ratcheting up demonizations of China seems a poor and likely counterproductive response
• Mound: The US Tax Code Should Not Allow Billionaires to Exist

  We need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them
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  Engler: Time to Ban Automobile Advertising

  Decades ago when it became clear humanity was hurtling towards a climate crisis, car ads should have been banned
• Driver: Enforcing US Exploitation: The IMF and the World Bank

  Rich countries, particularly the US, dominate the IMF and World Bank, and use them to manipulate developing countries so that their corporations can dominate trade
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  Palast: US Cannibals in Haiti

  ... and other tales of Voodoo Economics in the Triste Tropiques
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  Nader: The Power Structure for Deadly Lag and the Prophetic Work of Unsung Heroes

  All those who told us so are largely forgotten, uncelebrated and, if they are still active, hardly getting their calls returned. Is there a more abject sign of a decaying democracy?
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  Klikauer: Corporate Capitalism Works … For Some

  To win against the Covid-19 virus, the world needs a well-functioning public health system
• Gibney: “Crime of the Century”

  How Big Pharma Fueled the Opioid Crisis That Killed 500,000 and Counting
• Keehner: Shoplifting Is Big News; Stealing Millions From Workers Is Not

  While basic arithmetic would indicate that $4.5 million is greater than $950, media have demonstrated that the question isn’t how much is being stolen, but who it is being stolen from