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GM Workers Ratify Contract Though 'Mixed at Best'

Chris Brooks, Jane Slaughter Labor Notes
Worley worried about the union's future: “They say 'we'll get 'em next time,'” he said, “but there may not be a next time. We lost 30,000 jobs in the last 10 years.”

$5 Million to Laid Off Coal Miners

Jessica Corbett Common Dreams
Talk About Direct Action Getting Results': Bankrupt Blackjewel Agrees to Pay Over $5 Million to Laid Off Coal Miners Who Blocked Train Tracks

United States Foreign Policy: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Harry Targ MR Online
The contradictory character of Trump foreign policy has left the peace movement befuddled. Perhaps the task is to include in the project of building a progressive majority ideas about challenging the US as an imperial power.

I Confess

Pauletta Hansel Rattle
With the great frustration of politics in our times, the poet Pauletta Hansel concedes that the worst thoughts inevitably, spontaneously, come to mind.

Lebanon’s ‘October Revolution’: A Historic Turning Point?

Rima Majed OpenDemocracy
Protesters in Beirut, Lebanon
While Lebanon has recently experienced similar massive “street explosions” against the ruling class (such as in 2015), the 2019 ‘October Revolution’ marks an important turning point in the history of contentious politics in the post-civil war era.

Trump’s Semi-Withdrawal From Syria: How Not To End Endless Wars

Diana Ohlbaum LobeLog
U.S. Marines in Syria
Moving some of the US troops stationed in Syria to Iraq while deploying an additional 1,800 troops to Saudi Arabia and continuing to participate in the brutal Saudi-led war in Yemen is hardly a strategy to “bring our great soldiers back home.”

Who Will Win the Just Born Game of Chicken?

Anthony Salamone, Scott Kraus The Morning Call
400 workers represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union have been on strike at the Just Born candy factory since September 7. Just Born's hard-line stance on hiring replacement workers could have both short- and long-term consequences for the company, including the need to rebuild shattered trust among employees and the possibility of fending off lawsuits from the workers hired to replace them, experts said.

Army Punishes Chelsea Manning With Two Weeks Of Solitary Confinement

Kevin Gosztola Shadowproof
Chelsea Manning went before a three-member disciplinary board at Fort Leavenworth on September 22 and was punished with 14 days of solitary confinement. and Chelsea Manning ended her hunger strike Sept 13 after the Army finally agreed to treatment for her gender dysphoria. "This is all that I wanted – for them to let me be me,” said Chelsea Manning. and Julian Assange to Accept Time in US Prison If Chelsea Manning Granted Clemency