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Public workers who lack any formal power to strike – but have the informal power not to work – are becoming a force in American politics and labor relations

No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.

“The war was started by men, the war will be ended by men . . but it’s the women and children who suffer the most and they have a right to define peace.”

'This is truly an ominous development for the poor people of Venezuela.'

Hands off Venezuela! U.S. Labor Against the War opposes the Trump Administration intervention in the internal affairs of Venezuela.

"Act American!"; The Kids Aren't Alright; Up From Bondage For Campaign Workers; AOC; Bernie; Shutdown Heroes

"Get Me Roger Stone" uses Stone’s story as a cipher for modern political history. It’s a horror show!

Championed by the Communist Party’s youth wing, the Komsomol, official discos transformed drab party auditoriums into festivals of transgression.

In a job with tons of power and practically no oversight from voters, law enforcement or politicians, corruption can be easy to get away with.

In the run-up to SEIU’s largest and most disastrous local union take-over—involving United Healthcare Workers (UHW)—some of the first punches where thrown at a Labor Notes conference in Dearborn, Michigan ten years ago this month.