Global Minimum Wage to Reduce Poverty & Corporate Power

The rich are growing astronomically richer while poverty reduction has ground to a standstill. In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly-paid workers?

Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy

Your stock portfolio may grow. But say goodbye to next year’s raise—and maybe even your job. Donald Trump’s election provides a useful occasion to examine the difference between what rich people want and what constitutes a thriving economy.

Reader Comments & Tidbits, December 26, 2024

Reader Comments: Trump's Pick for Attorney General: Rapist Gaetz; Democrats’ Path Back To Power; Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election; Second Ku Klux Klan; Stop Blaming People for Wanting to Afford the Basics of Living; Cartoons, and more...

Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Protests Continuing Gaza Genocide

Reverend's Christmas sermon titled "Christ is Still in the Rubble" given while Christmas celebrations were canceled in the West Bank and the city of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ’s birthplace, for the second year in a row.

‘I Probably Could Have Flipped Over a Few More Tables'

Outgoing Rep. Cori Bush gets candid about her time in Congress and how progressives should respond to 2024.

Think Biden’s Unpopular? Check Out His Fellow Leaders.

If floundering leaders and ineffectual democracies are the new norm, we’re in a very dangerous time.

The Walmart Effect

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

Global Left Midweek – Women Make History

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Trump Wants To Bring Back the American Imperium

Don’t worry, the president-elect's plans to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal aren't serious. But they sure are weird.

Octopuses and Their Relatives Are a New Frontier

Here’s what scientists know about consciousness in these unique creatures
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Culture

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A Soundtrack of Irrationalism

Blaire Briody Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America."

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Capitalism Is Draining the Life From Our Culture Industries

Dean Van Nguyen Jacobin
Culture industries are dominated by a few big corporations that prefer to keep flogging old stories instead of taking a risk on something new. Creative workers can still produce fresh ideas, but they’re snuffed out before they get a chance to breathe

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The Peasantry

Weijia Pan Motherlands
Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.

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Jim Williams’s Quest for Justice

Paul Buhle CounterPunch
Activist and writer Jim Williams, in his new autobiography, covers his life from Students for a Democratic Society activist, to Communist labor editor, to social worker.

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"Big Food” Tries To Look Good

Alicia Kennedy The Bittman Project
If the top-heavy, ultra-consolidated food industry decides to offer us a few organic options, is that really a good thing? Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow them. Today the top five food retail companies account for about half of the market.

Labor

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Politically Corrupt and Morally Bankrupt

Helen Mercer Morning Star
Cold War anti-communism directly contributed to US labor’s decline in the latter half of the 20th century. That is a betrayal, at home and abroad, of the interests of the working class they were elected to represent.

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The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t

Rogé Karma The Atlantic
The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?

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Striking Amazon for the Holidays

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Amazon workers at seven warehouses walked off the job starting yesterday, in a major escalation of the Teamsters’ efforts to organize the company. In New York, the strikers faced repression from the police.

Friday nite video

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BBC in Civil War Over Gaza

BBC reporters are in open revolt over the bias in BBC management in its Palestine coverage

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'Syria: Only Now Can We Speak Out'

Syrian helicopters dropped chlorine gas on the town of Douma on April 7, 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. The town grieved in silence ... until now.

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A Complete Unknown | Movie

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro. Only in theaters Christmas Day. #ACompleteUnknown

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How Amazon Is Ruining Christmas

SCOOP: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike to attempt to win their first union contract right before Christmas — the company's busiest time.