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Material of Interest to People on the Left
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Material of Interest to People on the Left
U.S. refuses to recognise upcoming Venezuelan elections
End of the American dream? The history of 'America Firs
Mercenary Considered to Build Trump's Army for Syria
Republican Says Trump Won Wisconsin Because of Voter ID
Trump Moves to Gut the Post Office
Friday Nite Videos | April 20, 2018
Why Teacher Uprisings May Hit Blue States Too
Who Is Díaz-Canel, the Next President of Cuba?
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Using Technology as a Movement-Building Tool
Culture
poetry
Where the N Train Stops
Apogee Journal
Where is Home, asks the young immigrant poet who is uprooted, transplanted, partly assimilated as he searches for a sturdy identity.
books
12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor
Dollars and Sense: Real World Economics
A survey of a dozen self-help books reveals a genre with an ideological axe to grind: it’s not the system that needs changing, it’s you.
books
Broad Band
800-CEO-READ
A "computer" used to be a job description, not just a machine. At the time, most computers were women. Dylan Schleicher reviews a fascinating history of how "computers" helped make the computer networks that are so interwoven into contemporary life.
film
‘The Wire’s’ David Simon Developing New Series Set During Spanish Civil War (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety
The “Spanish struggle against fascism and the misuse of capitalism as a bulwark to totalitarianism” represent “the preeminent political narrative of the 20th century and of our time still.”
food
Modernist Cuisine's Next Tome Tackles Pizza
Eater.com
Modernist Cuisine's next project will attempt to analyze all styles of pizza, try them all and see what works and what doesn’t and why. The goal is to produce “the most comprehensive pizza cookbook in the world.”
tv
The Simpsons’ Apu Response Is What Happens When You’re on the Air for Too Long
Vulture
In “No Good Read Goes Unpunished,” the 633rd episode of The Simpsons, the longest-running scripted series in TV history finally acknowledged that there is something problematic about the way it has portrayed Apu Nahasapeemapetilon for the past three decades.
poetry
Make America Safe Again
Is this the country where George Washington slept? Mississippi poet Philip C Kolin has his doubts.
Labor
labor
Coding and Coercion
Jacobin
An interview with Björn Westergard
Unions have been trying to organize software engineers for decades, with little success. Here's a look at the organizing campaign that might turn things around.
labor
What Does the Commonwealth Mean to its 30 Million Workers?
Equal Times
Labor in Commonwealth countries from the former British empire want to ensure that there is no cliff edge before Brexit becomes a reality.
labor
Salinas Farm Workers March To Oppose Immigration Raids
People's World
In Salinas on April 8, over a thousand farm workers and allies filled the streets of its working-class barrio to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
labor
Cuomo Signs Legislation Strengthening Workers’ Rights
DC 37 Blog
The new law increases access to and protects union membership in New York’s public-sector workplaces in anticipation of an adverse ruling in the pending Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME.
labor
The Mirage of Pension-Fund Activism
Jacobin
Pension-fund activism is a dead-end. Organizing and empowering workers is still the only way to revive the labor movement.
labor
Oklahoma Walkout In Danger As Arizona, Kentucky Teachers Press For Strike Action
World Socialist Web SIte
Rank-and-file teachers denounced the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) for collaborating with school officials and the media to encourage a back-to-work movement to end the strike.
labor
Connecting Public Transit to Great Manufacturing Jobs
American Prospect
Madeline Janis, who pioneered local hiring agreements, is now enlisting cities to have railcars and buses made in America—by union workers.
Friday nite video
video
A Series of Gunfortunate Events
Leading up to another nationwide school walkout to protest gun violence, Trevor recaps all of the news coming from "good guys with guns."
video
You Wanna Lie Us Into War (Parody of Don't Come Around Here No More)
How many times before we say, 'Enough'?
video
The Decline of the Trump Merchandise Empire
Before he ran for president, Donald Trump was raking in money from Trump-branded steaks, eyeglasses, ties, K-cups, cologne and a dozen other licensed products. But now, nearly all of his partnerships have disappeared.
video
Marx in Soho
Actor, teacher and activist Brian Jones plays Karl Marx in the late Howard Zinn's amusing one person play that looks at Marx's life, his analysis of society and his passion for radical change.
video
How IBM Quietly Pushed Out 20,000 Older Workers
Age discrimination can be very hard to prove.
video
Why Black Americans Are Getting Less Sleep
How the sleep gap reflects inequality and contributes to it.
video
Love Train | Turnaround Arts | Playing For Change
Turnaround Arts infuses struggling schools with the arts as a strategy to bolster reform efforts. Turnaround Arts is a national program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that works in 73 schools in 37 districts across 17 states and the District of Columbia.
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