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TEAMSTERS JOINT Council 16, representing 120,000 Teamsters in 27 locals across the five boroughs of New York City, as well as Long Island, the Hudson Valley and Puerto Rico, has declared itself a "sanctuary union."

A new study reveals that more, and more diverse, US college students voted in 2016. What are the implications for future elections?

This new book is an in-depth look at how the 1964 Civil Rights Act impacted the world of women and work.

Leaving a tip isn't only payment for services, it is a mark of social and economic superiority -- which is why workers in the US resisted the system in the 19th century.

Missouri stayed the execution of Marcellus Williams, but why was he sentenced to die in the first place?

In Belgium, in the Congo, as much as in the slave South of the United States, there remain too many monuments to exploiters, not enough of resistors.

Learning from the past, Brazil's landless rural workers continue their struggle for democracy and justice.

The new figures have just come out, and we are slightly down again.

We need a socialist politics that challenges the Democratic Party's leadership, not just the Right.

Moderators Note: This article, which is not friendly to the workers of Puerto Rico, does list in detail the latest austerity measures enacted by the Government of Puerto Rico as dictated by Obama's Federal Control Board.