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Southern Workers Assembly Southern Workers Assembly
Southern Worker School charts path for building workers movement in the U.S. South.

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Dee Allen Seattle Star
Eco poetry: California poet Dee Allen looks back and forward to the fight to save the South Atlanta forests.

DHL Express Workers Join Teamsters

Kara Deniz International Brotherhood of Teamsters
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters scored a massive organizing victory for more than 1,100 DHL Express workers at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG).

Fordham Graduate Students Walk Out of Teaching To Demand a Better Contract

Jonathan Custodio The City
More than 300 graduate student workers at Fordham University’s Arts and Sciences school began a three-day walkout this Monday, resulting in hundreds of canceled classes amid growing frustration with the state of their union contract negotiations with the university.

Losing by Not Winning

Shehryar Fazli Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewer Fazli examines this new History of the Democratic Party, written by a former editor of Dissent magazine.

Remembering Paul Robeson: ‘I Had No Alternative’

Paul Von Blom The Progressive
125 years after his birth, Paul Robeson, the civil rights titan, remains a role model for battling racism and fascism. The words written on his gravestone: “The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.”