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Public sector worker in Argentina fight for better conditions.

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We could easily fund health care for all by ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.

Five days after a bill ending private prisons in the state was signed into law, the Trump administration found a way to get around it.

...the Trump administration has been seeking to expand mining on public lands and further loosen environmental rules under the banner of weaning the United States off importing minerals deemed “critical” to national security.

Our government’s and corporate media’s failure to capture the true extent of unemployment creates a distorted narrative about work that feeds bewilderment and self-recrimination.

Food waste is a global problem, but the U.S. is a major offender, wasting up to 40% of its food supply each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Social Security, March Madness, McDonald's and more

Unite and Unison back mass action for the first time since 1926

It came at a time when the world has been rocked by grassroots uprisings in the Arab world, but also increasing mobilizations to counter the climate crisis, and massive economic protests from southern Europe to “Occupy” groups in the United States to student movements from Quebec to Chile.