Iranian Women Violently Arrested in Hijab Crackdown

Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls

Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?

We are calling on countries around the world to pressure Israel to allow us “free and safe passage” to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

What the Columbia Encampment is Really Like

What we saw couldn’t be more different from the dire warnings of rampant antisemitic threats and pervasive danger coming from City Hall, Albany and the White House.

Global Left Midweek – April 24, 2024

Focus on Europe

Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime?

Unhoused people in Grants Pass were arrested for sleeping outside, but there was nowhere else for them to go.

FTC To Finalize Noncompete Rule Today

The fight now shifts to the courts, where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will likely try to strip the agency of its rulemaking authority.

Bernie Sanders; ‘Stop Murdering Innocent People’

Vermont senator makes remarks after Israeli strike kills seven aid workers, amid war that has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians

War & Genocide on Earth Day

U.S. military aggression and imperial ambitions leave a trail of natural destruction — all under the guise of national security, writes Melissa Garriga.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 23, 2024

Rights in free fall

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29

The cover of the book, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Class Struggle by the Book (in 1914), The Global South Gets Organized (1955), Portugal Dumps Fascism (1974), Apartheid’s End (1994), Nixon on the Skids (1974), Pray for the Dead, Fight for the Living (1989), A College with No Color Line (1854)
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Culture

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Strange Soups and Brass Bands

David Bacon The Reality Check: Stories and Photographs by David Bacon
Soups are made from the traditions of the countryside where people are used to eating the animals that live there (the rat is a country creature, not the urban variety) and some think of them even as a kind of medicine.

poetry

Si, Se Puede (It Can Be Done)

Philip Kolin
Marking the anniversary of his death (April 23, 1993), Cesar Chavez continues to inspire support for immigrant farm workers’ rights around the country.

food

New York City’s New Gilded Age

Linette Lopez Business Insider
Beneath the city's victory over the pandemic and dining's glorious return is great divide between the haves and the have-nots. This new economy reveals the dramatic difference between those who can handle an inflationary shock and those who cannot.

Labor

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The UAW’s Victory Can Serve as a Model

Steven Greenhouse Century Foundation
How did the UAW pull off its big Southern victory, the first time a union has succeeded in organizing a foreign-owned auto plant in the South? The UAW and Shawn Fain pursued five basic strategies to achieve this victory, and those steps could serve

labor

Workplace Militancy Isn’t Enough for Labor

Bob Master Jacobin
The uptick in high-profile strikes in recent years has been heartening. But sustaining and expanding the gains won by that militancy will require careful strategizing and deep political engagement that starts with but goes beyond the shop floor.

labor

Antitax Nation

David Cay Johnston American Prospect
Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.

labor

UAW Wins Organizing Election at VW Tennessee Plant

Luke Ramseth Detroit News
The United Auto Workers achieved a historic organizing victory Friday night at a Volkswagen AG plant in Tennessee plant as workers voted overwhelmingly to join the union following a three-day election.

labor

Militancy—and Beyond

Bob Master Convergence
Millions of non-union workers took notice of the 2023 strike wave. But moving from a year of high-profile strikes to building working class political power, let alone transforming US politics, will not happen automatically.

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