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Hands off Venezuela! U.S. Labor Against the War opposes the Trump Administration intervention in the internal affairs of Venezuela.

'This is truly an ominous development for the poor people of Venezuela.'

“The war was started by men, the war will be ended by men . . but it’s the women and children who suffer the most and they have a right to define peace.”

No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.

We’ll have to contend with new limits to the Clean Water Act, growing threats from climate change and fixing our aging infrastructure.

But often, in the process of dreaming that constitutes our radicalisms, we retreat into ahistorical and erasing revisionisms as opposed to situating our political visions within some concrete foundation.

What follows is a chronology of both the physical fortification of the U.S.-Mexico boundary and the psychic investment in such a fortification -- the fantasy, chased by both Democrats and Republicans for more than half a century...

Ultimately, the better advice for workers seeking to avoid “disruption” is to become the agents of disruption themselves.

A national growers’ lobby has sued the U.S. Department of Labor to freeze the wages of H-2A workers at a level barely above minimum wage.