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Material of Interest to People on the Left
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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Make America Read Again
Regime Change
Leonard Peltier on His Life and Art
Statement From Families of Palestinians Shot in Vermont
Angie Nixon and Black Voting Power
Friday Nite Videos | October 2, 2026
AI Weapons Systems Are Already Here
The Road to Universal Medicare
El-Sayed Explains How Science Influences His Politics
White Nationalism’s Deep Appeal
Culture
poetry
[to be crippled means to be institutionalized]
Connotation. Denotation. Few words have as many meanings as the word "cripple." Poet Jennifer Bartlett, a longtime disability justice activist, unpacks some of them for us.
books
The Elusive Harold Cruse
Portside
Reviewer Buhle explores a new biography of one of the most important and controversial Black intellectuals of the 1960s.
film
Oscar Winner Barbara Kopple on ‘Union Town,’ Her Third Towering Film on American Labor – Camden Film Festival
Deadline
Union Town follows the battle for better wages and working conditions on three fronts in New York City — at UPS, at Amazon, and among “deliveristas” – that is, people who work for apps like DoorDash making food runs for customers.
food
The Golden Age of Asian American CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods)
Taste Cooking
The rapid evolution of Asian consumer packaged goods (CPGs) has raised the profile of Asian food in America. Just seeing your culture represented [on the shelf] felt very critical to the next generation.
tv
Nobody Wants This Star Adam Brody Is for a Free Palestine, Now That You Ask
AV Club
The notably private O.C. actor says he wasn't intentionally keeping quiet about his views on the conflict in Gaza.
poetry
Writing My Country
Poet Beau Beausoleil has been called "the most important voice of witness in our country right now."
books
Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891–1931
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
This book is a historical study of the theory and practice of workers education as discussed by theorists and conducted within several prominent Socialist and Communist parties in the decades before the rise of fascism.
Labor
labor
Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign Lit a Spark Beyond Elections
Jacobin magazine
Electoral campaigns can feed workplace struggle by politicizing people, raising their expectations, bringing activists together, and giving them experience organizing others. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns did all four.
labor
It’s Time To Boycott Starbucks
Inequality.org
Organizers with Starbucks Workers United have been trying to get a contract finalized for five years. Enough is enough.
labor
Mass Deportations Hurt All Working People
The Stand
A new report details how immigration enforcement lowers wages and raises costs for working families, regardless of immigration status
labor
Worker Firing the Latest Chapter in AutoZone’s Relentless Union-Busting Campaign
The Chief
"Management hired all the possible anti union consultants and spent a boatload of money to defeat them," UAW Region 9A Director said in a social media post after the AutoZone vote. "But the workers made it clear that you can’t beat good organizing."
labor
Mark Carney Is Taking Aim at Canada’s Labor Movement
Convergence
Mark Carney wants to make Canada a destination for global investment. His new omnibus bill casts the right to strike as an obstacle to the “national interest” — and organized labor as a barrier to national strength rather than its foundation.
labor
Video Game Workers Win First Contract at Microsoft-Owned Blizzard
Labor Notes
Workers who make some of the world’s most popular video games, including World of Warcraft and Diablo, won their first union contracts in early September, in an important step forward for organizing in the tech industry.
labor
Unions Score Deal To Shield Federal Workers From Government Shutdown Firings
Common Dreams
“We’re glad this settlement places limits on their ability to use federal workers as bargaining chips to push their extreme agenda during the next government shutdown, but the fight is far from over,” said one union leader.
Friday nite video
video
Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall
The intended meaning of this classic -- if any -- is obscure, but the lasting impact of its brooding sense of impending catastrophe, or righteous settlement of debts, is huge. Many questions about tomorrow, and no clear answers.
video
The Corruption at Starlink Is Shocking
The U.S. was supposed to spend $40 billion to build internet in rural America, then Elon Musk got a huge chunk of that money redirected to Starlink.
video
Anthropic IPO Documents AI Risks
Anthropic’s leaked prospectus offers a fascinating glimpse into the transition to corporate adulthood, because little AI is growing up, and adulthood comes with bills, lawyers, insurers, customers and consequences.
video
Pete Hegseth Purges Weirdos and Wimps
Pete Hegseth gets the Pentagon in line with God, and appoints a very strange new Holy Trinity. Plus, Donald Trump invents a new stereotype to mark Hispanic Heritage Month.
video
The Radical Solution to our Rigged Tax Code
How exactly should we tax the rich? We lay out 3 specific ways to target and reduce the wealth gap in society, including taxing billionaires’ SuperPAC contributions.
video
Naza | Documentary
Award-winning documentary, produced with the team behind the Zone of Interest and directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, includes testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders
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