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Labor Wins—in China

Harold Meyerson Talking Union
Chinese workers to vote on union leadership.

Postal Cuts Are Austerity on Steroids

By John Nichols The Nation
The austerity agenda that would cut services for working Americans in order to maintain tax breaks for the wealthy—and promote the privatization of public services—has many faces.

Women and Islam - Struggle for Democracy and Against Fundamentalism

by Meredith Tax OpenDemocracy.net
Instead of sanitizing the Muslim right as a way of fighting racism in the North, Meredith Tax argues that the left should develop a strategy of solidarity with democrats, trade unionists, religious and sexual minorities, and feminists struggling in the Global South against both neo-liberalism and fundamentalism.

Four More Years: Europe’s Meltdown

By Conn Hallinan Submitted to Portside
This is the last of five articles analyzing the key issues the Obama administration faces over the next four years.