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New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week.

Democrats were ready to throw railworkers to the wolves, letting even Republicans outflank them on labor rights. But thanks to a last-minute legislative push by Bernie Sanders and his allies today, railworkers may be getting the sick leave they’re demanding.

"We need universal rent controls in this country, and we actually need the federal government to champion them."

Was there a conspiracy — even if it only involved a handful of people — at the highest levels of our government to end the American Experiment that was only defeated by sheer luck?

12,000 striking postdoctoral scholars reached a tentative agreement with the University of California to boost their wages and benefits.

A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup

The votes by members of the Maine State Employees Association and the American Federal of State, County and Municipal Employees are a victory for Republican Gov. Paul LePage.

A loss of income causes more than financial distress. It severs, as the sociologist Émile Durkheim pointed out, the vital social bonds that give us meaning.

The impact of this political decision is significant: 800,000 young immigrants—many of whom have never known another country except when they were small children—will become instantly deportable and lose the ability to work legally and contribute to the United States, and will be effectively left without labor rights and employment law protections in the workplace.

In shorthand: this essay is an argument for the left to interact with the post-Charlottesville surge of resistance by pursuing a strategy that is anti-right, anti-racist, gender-inclusive, grounded in the interests of the working class and oriented toward working both inside and outside of the Democratic Party.