Portside

This book is a liberal analysis and critique of fascism. Reviewer Shaw offers a critique.

Unionists at the AFL-CIO’s annual Martin Luther King conference, held January 12-14 in Montgomery, Ala., tackled what one panelist called a decades-long problem for the labor movement: Organizing the South.

As the horror continues and multiplies in Palestine/Gaza we are all trying to arm ourselves with as many historical facts as possible to try to understand the complicated history of the Middle East, specifically Palestinian/Jewish relations.

“A lot of AI is coming into this world," said Roman Alejo, 34, a barista at the Sahara hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. "It is very scary and very eye-opening to see how humans can think of replacing other humans."

Governments around the world market influence through food. However, the way food is associated with identity, combined with diplomacy’s pursuit of the national interest, means gastrodiplomacy will always have at least a tinge of nationalism.

King, who championed economic as well as racial justice, called labor unions “the first anti-poverty program,” Western Illinois University Professor Peter Cole writes.

Fired after asking for a raise, minimum-wage workers at a Jollibee in Jersey City fought for back pay and reinstatement. After a nearly yearlong campaign against the fast-food chain, the workers won.

For Native Americans there is something also familiar about Maya’s interactions with family and friends, with the way the community speaks to each other, and the sense that distance doesn’t mean separation. ‘Indian humor’ is prevalent throughout.

Young workers face pay discrimination in 34 states and DC

War remains headline news, as ever, perhaps distracting public attention from the Big Bang, so says poet Gerry Sloan.