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This is an edited version of a piece by Leopoldo Tartaglia of the international department of the CGIL, Italy’s largest union federation. Thanks to Peter Olney for the translation.

A version of the boy who cried wolf, here now are the consequences of government lies.

When things get dire enough, the working class fights back. In dealing with the outbreak of the coronavirus, people across the United States have organized at their workplaces, and also won major reforms in the housing sector.

It is in our power to decide how to meet this crisis.  We could deepen divisions and set off on the fool’s errand of building “Fortress America.” Or we could use it to build community, forge solidarity, revive internationalism, renovate democracy.

Some saw the collapse of the German Empire as a decisive and traumatic break in the historical continuity of the state. Nothing, in the book author’s view, more profoundly exemplified this revolt against history than National Socialism.

This is the final volume of the award-winning portrait of the earliest days of the English Reformation and the birth of capitalism, as those events played out in the life of Thomas Cromwell, courtier to king Henry VIII of England.

As fallout from the coronavirus pandemic hits the economy, it’s slamming the American workforce: Some 18% of adults reported that they had been laid off or that their work hours had been cut, a new poll found.

As fallout from the coronavirus pandemic hits the economy, it’s slamming the American workforce: Some 18% of adults reported that they had been laid off or that their work hours had been cut, a new poll found.

The 1938 Oscar-winning “That Mothers Might Live,” about the groundbreaking work a 19th century hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, explains how this man of science saved millions of lives, through the simple suggestion: wash your hands!

Unions want to see employees supported directly instead of funds for airline companies.