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Interview with IMZ (Iniciativa mestni zbor) in Slovenia about the citizens assemblies movement, vision, & strategy

The UAW Members United slate won three regional director positions and could eventually win the other four top officer positions it contested, including the presidency.

The University of California is trying to divide and conquer the 48,000 workers on strike by acceding to the demands of some groups but not others.

Fortunately, there are some ideas for challenging the control the rich have over the media. We are not going to be able to prevent the rich from buying media outlets. Instead, we will have to go the other way and allow the non-rich to have a voice.

Companies making mycelium-based foods advertise sustainability as a selling point; however the energy use of maintaining fermenters (to produce mycelia) can be substantial.

A train engineer talks about President Biden forcing a contract on rail workers, the failure of rail union leadership during negotiations, and why he thinks progressives in Congress should be commended for their role pushing for seven paid sick days.

Has public health failed us? Or have we failed public health?

As the year comes to a close, take a look back to one of the most surprising and exciting labor uprisings of 2018.

In the twenty-first-century version of war American-style, other ships have become the very image and essence of hardship and harm in ways that violate the most basic tenets of democracy and justice.

The modest sentence reductions in the bill are so narrow that veteran reform advocates say the long-term, harmful provisions of the legislation — including its reliance on racist risk assessment mechanisms and expansion of electronic monitoring...