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My union is in a perpetual battle for decent health care coverage. It’s a tactic of our employers to prevent us from striking against our terrible work conditions. If we had Medicare for All, we could demand much more at the bargaining table.

California poet Buff Whitman-Bradley reminds us that some wars never end.

As the presidential debate comes to Ohio, the students in a local chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America are defining their political identity.

Americans still struggle over coming to terms with the core issues of the civil war and reconstruction

In postwar Germany, a cooperative run by trade unionists created Europe’s largest housing company. Building over 400,000 homes, “Neue Heimat” showed we don’t have to live on the terms dictated by landlords — we can take control for ourselves.

The organizers had a simple idea; on this one day, people opposed to the war would halt “business as usual” and take some action – large or small - to signify their desire for peace.

Chicago Public Schools teachers are on strike and w ill hit picket lines Thursday after failing to reach a new contract deal with the city following months of negotiations.

"This brief but effective book, only about 100 pages in main text," writes reviewer Meulbroek, claims "that decollectivization laid the basis for China’s capitalist restoration."

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