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With respiratory ailments, heart-palpitations, headaches, memory loss, skin rashes, and bloody sores.

If you don’t have worker power behind you, the ideas you uphold — socialist ideas — are not seen as credible.

Meet the public defender who is shaking up the Queens DA race.

Journalists are saying yes to unions to lift salary floors, win or improve basic benefits, and provide some cushion to the industry’s volatility.

This book argues, says reviewer Maly, that "the Googles and Facebooks of this world are shaping an antidemocratic world," using our data to produce "raw material in the production of predictive products that eliminate our freedom."

Mass Uprisings: Sudan, Algeria, Haiti, Honduras * Black Vests in France * Soc Dems Dilemma in Denmark * Philippines Labor Leader Gunned Down * Trump Declares War on UK Labour

"Will medicine now become essentially a business, or will it remain a profession?" he asked in a 1991 lecture to the Massachusetts Medical Society later published in the NEJM. "We are not vendors, and we are not merely free economic agents in a free market." The cure he prescribed was a single-payer healthcare system in which physicians abstained from financial conflicts of interest.

"We don't throw around the threat of litigation or protests lightly," said the Haida Nation president. "This is the time we will take the biggest stand of our lives."

Some activists say the World Bank itself is partly to blame for the conjoined problems of climate change, food insecurity and desertification, by pushing its agenda of large-scale agriculture and mono-crop plantations on the developing world.

Supreme Court refusal to hear appeal spells 'terrible news for all of the developing world'