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At the heart of the Green New Deal is a recognition that shifting to clean energy could leave many behind. That's why the plan protects workers' right to organize, calls for universal health care, retirement security and union jobs at a living wage.

Sanctions, the information war, and the American sabotage

Ahead of the first 2020 presidential debates, Dems have released some of the most far-reaching housing plans in decades.

For criminal justice reform to happen, more progressive prosecutor campaigns like Cabán’s are necessary.

When Stephen Sweeney, Vice-President International Association of Iron Workers, became New Jersey Senate President in 2010, he kept pressing for public employee concessions. What he did to public employees is disgraceful.

"The pursuit of happiness," said the writers of the Declaration of Independence, is one of our basic "unalienable rights." What can that possibly mean in contemporary capitalist society? This book inquires into what "happiness" might mean today.

Interviews with Enzo Traverso (antifascist historian), Seif Da'na (Egypt), Sybelle Kaczorek (Germany), Richard Seymour (UK), Radha Gyawali (Nepal), Sudanese comrades, Hernan Vargas (Venezuela), João Pedro Stedile (Brazil)

A federal board would first have to approve a walkout. The catering workers, some of whom earn as little as $8.46 an hour, are asking for higher wage and less costly health insurance.

“The US ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during World War II,” she tweeted. “It is such a shameful history that we largely ignore it. These camps occur throughout history.”