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If SuperShuttle drivers, with all their restrictions and prohibitions, aren’t employees in the eyes of a Republican NLRB, then Uber’s case before that same board is no longer a question mark. It’s a slam dunk.

New York poet Robin Myers captures the omnipresent mix of commerce with big-city surveillance.

Class struggle still dominates civil society under capitalism. The new terrain explored here, as well as its undoing by working people, lies in capital’s increased capacity to squeeze more work out of every minute of every work day.

In this essay, the author of a new biography of Hobsbawm, the famous Marxist historian, gives us a brief assessment of British Communist writer's life and work.

Denver teachers have voted to strike in the name of fair wages, marking the first time educators in Colorado’s largest school district have agreed to walk out of their classrooms in 25 years.

Vice is a picture that distills entire semesters worth of history, geopolitics, psychology, media theory, film studies, and military analysis into a historical comedy-drama that has netted far less attention and box office receipts than it deserved.

The drop continues a trend that except for a pause during the 2008 financial crisis, has been ongoing since the 1980s, when the share of organized labor was roughly double what it is today.

Andres’s World Central Kitchen served meals to thousands of government employees this week and plans to keep doing so until the shutdown is over.

Reyna Grande on a Chance Encounter at the San Antonio Airport.

The Los Angeles teachers’ strike, organized by the 33,000 strong Unified Teachers Los Angeles, went into its fifth day Jan. 18.