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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

How the UFC Went MAGA

Jacob Debets Jacobin
MMA used to be home to oddballs unified by a love of beating each other up inside cages. But since Donald Trump’s first presidency, the UFC has rebranded the sport as a refuge for the “anti-woke sports fan,” while breaking unions and censoring the me

Learning From the 1970 Postal Workers’ Strike

Marc Kagan Jacobin
In 1970, US postal workers won collective bargaining rights with an illegal strike. If lawsuits to stop Trump’s attacks on the federal workforce fail, that kind of militancy may be the only way for federal workers to retain their own union rights.

100 Days, 100 Ways Trump Has Hurt Workers

Celine McNicholas, Samantha Sanders, Josh Bivens, Margaret Poydock, and Daniel Costa Economic Policy Institute
In the first 100 days of his second term, Trump has hurt working people and the economy over 100 ways.