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Anatomy of a Union Organizing Drive

AN INTERVIEW WITH DAISY PITKIN Jacobin
Unions aren’t just vehicles for transforming society — they also transform lives, as workers and organizers learn how to build an organization that can overthrow the authoritarian dictatorship of the boss and create a beloved community.

The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60

Edited by Peter Kornbluh National Security Archive
Documents Record how Kennedy Administration Buried Quid Pro Quo that Resolved Missile Crisis Letters Implicate President Kennedy as Author of Political Attack On U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson

That Cardboard Box Is Fueling Election Denial

Justin Elliott, Megan O’Matz and Doris Burke ProPublica
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

Reparations as a Construction Project

Alexandra Tempus The Progressive
An interview with philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his climate justice-centered framework for ‘remaking the world.’ -- "What I hope is becoming clearer as the climate crisis accelerates is that you actually can’t buy a new ecology.”

Can Democrats Stop a Return to Nationalist White Nativism?

Paul Garver Chartist
The strategy of Bernie Sanders and members of the Congressional Squad is clear: grow the democratic socialist/progressive bloc in Congress and Democratic Party; stand up for the multiracial working class; and resist creeping fascism on every front.

Returnees Who’ve Served Decades in Prison Need Help

Roach Brown Washington Informer
With virtually nothing but the clothes on their backs, many inmates are placed on a bus, given $50, known as ‘gate money,’ and if they’re lucky, they may be told to have a nice life.