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Remembering a pathbreaker for free media

U.K. workers rise up against Conservatives’ attempt to hollow out their right to strike.

Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work

Labor organizing is severely restricted in Iran but independent unions have actively backed demands for women’s rights.

The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.

Peet’s Workers United received assistance from Starbucks Workers United organizers.

Watching the GOP’s circular firing squad during the speaker votes was entertaining, but what do progressive Democrats have to show for rallying round their party’s leadership?

Myanmar’s military junta is not short of partners. Indeed, business, notably in the arms market, continues unabated. Such conduct makes a mockery of the sanctio ns and injunctions imposed by the EU, United States and other states since the 2021 coup.

Two long-time organizers for economic, racial, and gender justice reflect on the lessons of the past half-century and assess the strategic challenges and opportunity confronting a new generation of workers, activists, and organizers.

Some researchers have theorised that ultra-processed foods increase inflammation because they are recognised by the body as foreign – much like an invading bacteria. The body mounts an inflammatory response, which has been dubbed “fast food fever”.