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Salt of the Earth: Made of Labour, By Labour, For Labour

Sukhdev Sandhu The Guardian
Sixty years ago a team of radical, blacklisted filmmakers made Salt of the Earth, a powerful representation of the agency of US workers. Sukhdev Sandhu celebrates a talisman of the American left

Ukraine: The Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Always Your Friend

Zoltán Grossman Portside
Anti-Fascist Action Ukraine estimated that 30 percent of the protesters in Kiev's Independence Square were far-right ultranationalists, and that was before the shooting began, when more of them joined the street battles.

Angela Davis: I Always Find Hope in Struggle

Angela Davis, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez Democracy Now!
Angela Davis on Prison Abolition, the War on Drugs, Why Social Movements Shouldn’t Wait on Obama, Solitary Confinement, Immigration Detention and "12 Years a Slave"

Drilling for Certainty: The Latest in Fracking Health Studies

Naveena Sadasivam ProPublica
“The public health sector has been absent from this debate,” said Nadia Steinzor, a researcher on the Oil and Gas Accountability Project at the environmental nonprofit, Earthworks. The science is far from settled. However, waiting for additional science to clarify those uncertainties before adopting more serious safeguards is misguided and dangerous. As a result, a number of researchers and local activists have been pushing for more aggressive oversight immediately.

Edna Pardo - 1921-2014

Graydon Megan Chicago Tribune
Edna Pardo tireless campaigner on the inequities in Chicago schools, and for fairness in Illinois school finance and the Illinois tax system, and longtime leader of the League of Women Voters of Chicago

The Disgraceful Rejection of Debo Adegbile

Scott Lemieux The American Prospect
Republicans voted against his approval as part of a broader anti-civil rights agenda, but the 7 Democrats who joined them ought to be mortified by their own cowardice.