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The Republicans stuck with their president, right up to the end.

Social deprivation following neoliberal austerity economics have fed the rise of the extreme right – a development which fascist elements in Germany are keen to exploit. The right-wing Afd won 15% of the union vote in the last elections.

The Workers’ Party and the Communist Party of Brazil develop a joint strategy to make sure that the imprisoned Lula is part of the upcoming presidential elections.

We should all be rooting for high profits and bull markets, since those are the conditions that lead to the invisible hand delivering better conditions for workers. Yet for some reason, that hand is nowhere to be found at United Parcel Service (UPS)

German "Movement of Movements", Bengladeshi Students Protest, Disabled Unite in UK, Colombian Contender, Class in China

For many black Americans, unions have been life-changing ladders to the middle class. Black workers organized in labor unions have better pay and fairer treatment. But the hard-fought gains of the black labor movement may be be under threat.

Fash in DC; ACLU in Transition; Bookstore Wreckers; QAnon and its Discontents; Three Books on White Supremacy

What’s the best way to push profit-seeking corporations out of the public sphere? Don’t let them take over in the first place.

The more trust is destabilized, the greater the economic distress. And so the Trump spiral spins onward, circling down an economic drain of his own making.

Our era is ripe for change. Neoliberalism is politically and morally bankrupt, yet a new vision for economic policymaking in the 21st century has yet to be fully articulated, let alone become a convincing alternative to the neoliberal model.