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The Puerto Rican Right Is Rallying Against a Rising Left

Ian J. Seda-Irizarry Jacobin
For years, Puerto Rico’s right-wing establishment has branded the Left as “communists” seeking to impoverish the island by isolating it from the US. Yet decades of economic mismanagement have discredited the Right and strengthened the Alliance

This Week in People’s History, Nov 6–12

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Political Violence, Way Back When (1919), A Very Catchy Ditty (1949), Death With Dignity (1994), A Very Important Conference, I Think (1984), When Ernie Met Bert (1969), A Very Big Win for Militant Musicians (1944), Apartheid Must Go! (1974)

Kamala Harris Is Not Doing Well With Union Voters

Chris Bohner Jacobin
What explains Kamala Harris’s poor numbers with voters who belong to unions? The decline in real wages for union members under Biden may have something to do with it.