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Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation.

This is an edited version of a piece by Leopoldo Tartaglia of the international department of the CGIL, Italy’s largest union federation. Thanks to Peter Olney for the translation.

All five parties comprising the Finish governing coalition are women and there is near gender parity in parliament. Yet Finland is not a utopia for equality. There is still a wage gap, job segregation and the reality of domestic violence.

Nigerians learned that horizontal approaches focusing on prevention and the general well being of a community make it harder for disease to spread rapidly.

The likely defeat of Sanders’s campaign is a setback, but no cause for retreat. The Democratic center is out of ideas, but to win electorally, the left must devise strategies for the electorate it faces now and not one it hopes to bring into being.

The coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Brazil, yet President Bolsonaro has approved a new project to contact and convert isolated Amazon indigenous groups by an evangelical organization with a history of doing deadly harm to Indians.

Announcement comes after Ohio grand jury declines to indict the two police officers involved in killing of John Crawford III

The higher hotel wage was the product of two years of organizing by a coalition that included labor unions, more than a dozen neighborhood councils, the ACLU and other nonprofits, which billed the measure as a critical step in addressing poverty.

In the last few years trade unions have led the fight against cutbacks in Greece. These fights, although not stopping these cuts, have changed the political scenery of the country.

Community members are angry about an evaluation-based system for awarding raises to educators and a proposed curriculum committee that would call for promoting "positive aspects" of the United States and its heritage and avoiding material that would encourage or condone "civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law."