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Learning From the 1990s Labor Party

An interview with Mark Dudzic Carl Rosen Jenny Brown Howard Botwinick Jacobin
As capital ratcheted up its assault on labor in the 1990s and Democrats embraced a neoliberal agenda, some labor unions launched their own political party.

Rallies in US Over Workers’ and Immigrants’ Rights

Rachel Leingang, Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington and Marina Dunbar in New York The Guardian
People organize in nearly 1,000 cities with focus on rallying against Trump administration and ‘billionaire profiteers’

Procreation Obligation

Rebecca Foust You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems
Taking George Orwell's classic text, 1984, as her foundation, poet Rebecca Foust casts a cold eye on the pronatalism of today's religious conservatives.

Workers Defy the Billionaire Takeover on May Day

Luis Feliz Leon In These Times
May Day will be a national demonstration that will polarize today’s struggle not along resentful, racist lines of immigrant vs. “native”, but along the class-struggle lines of workers vs. billionaires.

Unpacking Trump’s Attack on Federal Sector Unions

Nicholas Handler Lawfare
Rendering collective bargaining inapplicable to the vast majority of federal workers, combined with the administration’s other attacks on the civil service, would leave the federal workforce in its weakest position in a century.

With His New Film, Alex Gibney Shines a Light on Dark Money

An interview with Alex Gibney Jacobin
Jacobin sat down with the prolific muckraking filmmaker Alex Gibney to discuss his new documentary The Dark Money Game, on the terrifying ramifications of Citizens United and how it’s empowered the same oligarchy now unleashed by the Trump administra

FDA Making Plans To End Its Routine Food Safety Inspections, Sources Say

Alexander Tin, Edited By Nicole Brown Chau, Paula Cohen CBS
Thomas Gremillion, Consumer Federation of America, criticized the Administration's reckless disregard for its policies' effects on the detection and prevention of foodborne illness and said plans to replace federal food inspectors merit suspicion