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Joe Biden Will Not Save the Labor Movement

Joe Burns Jacobin
Talk of Joe Biden as a transformational president is getting ahead of itself. Historically, labor law reform has triggered some of the fiercest battles from business — and Joe Biden has shown no evidence he’ll go to the mat for the PRO Act...

The 1970 Postal Workers Strike

Patrick Murfin Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout
When Rank and File Postal Workers Whipped Bosses, Union Leaders, and Richard Nixon

Luchtfietser [Daydreamer]

Robert Perry Coronagedicht
One year after people began to quarantine, Robert Perry’s poetry captures the slow realization as one day passes into the next how daydreaming eases the loneliness.

A Thank You and a Message of Hope

Portside
Where do we go in the coming year? We hope to begin to turn vision into reality. To not only turn the page, but to begin a new chapter.

Can the Senate Restore Majority Rule?

Michael Tomasky The New York Review of Books
Senate filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, needs abolishing before any progressive legislation passes. The author offers an insider’s account of how reactionary politicians use the upper house to repress working people and hamstring democracy.