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Buried: How We Choose To Remember the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Annina van Neel, Joseph Curran, Dominic Aubrey De Vere, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, Peggy King Jorde The Guardian
How to create an appropriate memorial for the recently uncovered remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans, one of the most significant traces of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

We Are Already Defying the Supreme Court

Ryan Doerfler, Samuel Moyn Dissent
The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

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.

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.

Green Groups Slam RFK Jr.

Brett Wilkins Common Dreams
"With so much at stake, we stand united in denouncing RFK Jr.'s false environmentalist claims."

Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote Union

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
To head off a union drive, Volkswagen boosted wages 11 percent to match the immediate raise UAW members received at Ford.

How We Rebuilt the Young Democratic Socialists

David Duhalde The Forge
DSA's youth section used lessons from Mao and contemporary labor to build a winning strategy: When a strategy and its tactics cease producing desired results, you need to reassess. Sometimes that means going beyond your comfort zone to find success.

Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community

Alan Wagman CounterPunch
We must demonstrate that one can leave Zionism and still be part of a Jewish community that lives its traditions, its values, and – if so inclined – its spiritual life with vitality and integrity.