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Bill Gates Can’t Save the Planet

Grace Blakeley Jacobin
Bill Gates is making the rounds promoting his plan to solve climate change. But his new book ignores the fact that the same capitalist system that made him rich is the one killing the planet. We need a working-class environmentalism.

Right to Work Defeated in Montana and Colorado

Brian Young UCOMM Blog
In Montana, union members from around the state came to the Capitol to pressure lawmakers into voting against the bill. However, a Right to Work bill continues forward in New Hampshire

The Rise of the Private Police

Amelia Pollard The American Prospect
In South Africa, private security companies have eclipsed the police force, threatening the state’s democratic authority and replicating apartheid-era racial inequality. Is the U.S. next?

Biden’s Support for Unionizing Amazon Is a BFD

Timothy Noah The New Republic
“This is new, nothing like it before,” observed the labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein. “Politicians always give great speeches at union conventions and avoid union organizing campaigns because of possibility of failure. But Biden broke this norm."