Political Attacks Could Crush the mRNA Vaccine

Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.

A Fighting Union’s Path to Renewal: The UE Story

The ongoing organizational renewal and substantial growth of UE is one of the most remarkable stories in the U.S. labor movement in decades. Of the 42 unions who comprised the founding roster of the CIO in 1938 only eight survive intact today.

How Unions Can Protect Immigrants

An interview with Faye Guenther, president of UFCW Local 3000.

They Had List-ICE Arrests Workers in Labor Rights Case

“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.

Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH

Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.

Trump To Welcome White South Africans

Amid a near-total asylum ban, government sources say Trump officials are planning to use funds for at-risk refugees to facilitate imminent Afrikaner resettlement.

The Crypto Racket

Public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution.

DRC Activists Refuse American Blackmail

Congolese civil society rejects U.S.-brokered peace with Rwanda: ‘any agreement that strips the nation of its natural wealth would constitute the crime of pillage.’

Liberation Day: 80 Years Since the Defeat of Fascism

This year marks a crucial moment in the struggle over historical memory. We commemorate the liberation of the concentration camps, the capitulation of the German Wehrmacht, and the end of Nazi barbarism. But what lessons have been learned?

Campaign To Protect 14th Amendment

Part of the ‘deep political education’ the CPD aims to provide is the history of the 14th Amendment and the indispensable role Black Americans had in ensuring its passage.
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Culture

poetry

Day 570

Anita Barrows
California poet Anita Barrows writes: "When the genocide began I started writing daily notes. I felt the urgency to document these tragedies in a whole poem every day, and that is what I will do until the genocide ends. I intend to keep writing."

books

This Is More Than a Legal Read

Bill Fletcher, Jr. Portside
The focus of the book is on Dominic Ongwen, a former soldier in the cultish army known as the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Ongwen had been kidnapped by the LRA when he was nine years old and transformed into a soldier and criminal...

books

Dangerous Chimera

Colin Kidd London Review of Books
Reviewer Kidd considers a new history of the idea of liberty by one of the UK's most esteemed political philosophers.

Labor

labor

Democrats Learned To Love Class Dealignment

Neal Meyer Jacobin
The neoliberal economic program embraced by the Clinton-era Democratic Party alienated many working-class voters. Democrats responded by reorienting their electoral strategy toward professional-class voters, accelerating workers’ departure

labor

‘DOGE Already Happened in Chicago’

Michaela Brant The Progressive
The president of the Chicago Teachers Union spoke to The Progressive about the union’s new contract that will protect Chicago educators and students from the threats of the Trump Administration.

labor

America’s Labor Unions Are Souring on Trump

Steven Greenhouse The Guardian
A new AFL-CIO poll found that a majority of union members say the country is moving in the wrong direction, with many complaining that Trump has done nothing to reduce inflation.

labor

Labor Goes All In for Abrego Garcia

Adrian Carrasquillo The Bulwark
AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler condemned President Donald Trump's deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and described the unlawful overreach as an attack on all workers.

labor

May Day Follow Up

May Day Strong
Sign up for a national call on May 8th to discuss next steps in the fight coming out of May Day actions.

Friday nite video

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How to Prevent Future Trumps

If America doesn't respond to the calamity that's befallen the working class, we will have Trumps as far as the eye can see