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The national director of Jewish civil rights organization the Anti-Defamation League has tweeted out concerns over comedian Dave Chappelle’s opening monologue last night on Saturday Night Lilve (sic).

We must organize within Morena, and we must organize in the streets. Young people must be patient and persevere. We must fight all our lives to transform reality. With AMLO, hope returned to us. I’m ready.

"I do think that this is a signal that being outwardly antagonistic, including trying to defeat progressive candidates, trying to demoralize those bases, is not healthy for the prospect of democratic gains."

While the agreement, in which TPLF has accepted disarmament, has been welcomed for bringing the civil war to an end, critics warn of the dangers of concessions made to the rebel group by the federal government

Models for Building a Union When There's No Clear Path to a Majority or a Contract

The fundamental question is why the Democrats did not landslide the Republicans nationally. This is the worst GOP in its history.

Voters in Massachusetts just ratified the Fair Share Amendment, which taxes income above $1 million to fund public services. A broad coalition of labor and community groups took on billionaire money and won.

On Veterans Day, we honor Gerald Sloan’s poem, commissioned by a local symphony to be recited at a choral performance of Wilfred Owen's famous sonnet (see below).

In Tuesday’s midterm elections, a majority of Illinois voters backed the Workers Rights Amendment which will enshrine the ability to organize. A coalition of unions, along with socialists, helped propel the campaign.

In 1932, with the Great Depression underway, President Herbert Hoover and General Douglas MacArthur violently suppressed the Bonus March, a massive encampment of veterans demanding relief, with far-reaching and unforseen consequences.