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We can move our country forward by moving it to the left. The Resistance and the gains in the recent elections are dramatic evidence that something fundamental is happening. Portside will continue to do our part. We ask for your help once a year.

There Is Power in This Union

Michael Kazin Dissent Magazine
The Democrats’ midterm triumphs in Nevada would not have been possible without Culinary Workers Union Local 226.

PG&E: Don’t Break it Up. Take it Over

Johanna Bozuwa Common Dreams
The potential bankruptcy of the California utility whose negligence likely plays a role in California’s wildfires is an opportunity for the public to gain control of the state’s energy destiny

Forget Elections—Labor Needs To Get Back to Its Roots

Tom Lewandowski In These Times
Social organizing, (not elections) built the labor movement. When 19th-century American workers had virtually no institutional or political voice or power, they developed both by caring about and for each other.

What White Supremacists Know

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Boston Review
The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.

The Queer Coming-of-Age Movie Arrives

Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic
For some kids rule-breaking is less a route toward self-definition than a requirement built into existence. That’s the reality recognized by a recent crop of films centered on the queer teen, a figure who until now has been cinematically marginal.