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Mississippi poet Juliet Hinton writes of her dreams fulfilled, thanks to a good education.

The level of anti-capitalist sentiment in the US today hasn’t been seen since the 1930s. Labor radicals seized that moment to create the pivotal Congress of Industrial Organizations. We should take lessons from their achievements — and their misstep

An advancing labor reform bill could increase overtime pay, expand social security for delivery workers, and strengthen workplace rights.

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.