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Staff demand wage increases and reversal of pandemic-era cutbacks that impose ‘painful’ working conditions

"They have to learn to respect Mexico's sovereignty," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said of the U.S. and Canada after their ambassadors weighed in on his controversial proposal.

Israel braced for a general strike after tens of thousands protest the government's failure to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas. Histadrut - one of the country's most powerful unions - announced the one-day strike.

The discussion of climate change, as of every aspect of the planetary crisis, tends to be dominated by the question of capitalism and other economic issues; geopolitics, empire, and questions of power figure in it far less.

Party leaders pay tribute to civil rights icon, but they don’t always practice what he preached. Jackson ran insurgent campaigns in 1984 and 1988, and the only thing that has come close since are the presidential runs of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

2020 made police reform “sexy” on a policy level, leading to a significant increase in civilian oversight boards around the country. However, in the years following, many of these boards are still trying to find their footing.

We need to rebuild the labor movement, and that means not going back to the kind of unions that existed in the postwar era. We need unions with a radical vision, unions that exert power in the workplace and society.

"They have to learn to respect Mexico's sovereignty," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said of the U.S. and Canada after their ambassadors weighed in on his controversial proposal.

The Harris-Walz ticket is polling well, and the atmosphere of gloom and doom that had beset both the Democratic Center and the Left has given way to cautious optimism. But the MAGA base remains intact, and the election is still close.

Ballot initiatives offer a tool “to not only block authoritarian rule and ideology, but to build a world where all of us thrive and live with dignity — the world we deserve.”