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Why Venezuela Is the Vietnam of Our Time

Celina della Croce Independent Media Institute
In its latest dossier, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research details the forms that the hybrid war in Venezuela has taken.

Against Polling

Nathan Akehurst, Rosie Collington Jacobin
The polling industry claims to offer live snapshots of what the public thinks. Yet the obsession with polls is reducing politics to market research.

IKEA Workers Vote To Join Machinists union

Staff Fightback News
A group of 186 distribution center workers at IKEA distribution centers in Joliet and Minooka, Illinois voted June 19 and 20 to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).

What Milwaukee Can Teach the Democrats about Socialism

Peter Dreier Dissent Magazine
The Democratic Party didn’t choose Milwaukee for its 2020 convention because of its radical past. But the city’s history shows how socialism worked in the United States—and could work again.