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The great solidarity movement of 2024

From planetarium lecturers to performers at strip clubs and escape rooms, Actors’ Equity is organizing live entertainment workers far beyond traditional musicals. The union’s strategy could be crucial as unions brace for a potential anti-labor admin

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.

Spike in fossil fuel use a result of global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Yesterday Donald Trump confirmed that he’s considering privatizing the US Postal Service. That would be a big step in the direction of a libertarian dystopia.

I was forced to come to terms with the fact that I was playing a leading role in a system that made desperate people wait months or longer to get care, or go deep into medical debt.

It didn’t need to. It shouldn’t have. But there’s a big reason why it thought it must.

Immigration activists prepare

In finding a new way to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross changes the way we perceive the world itself.

Veterans For Peace is calling on US Senators to vote NO on Pete Hegseth for US Defense Secretary, should President-elect nominate him.