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Some workers are going into debt because they are being made to pay back employers for the cost of job training if they are fired or quit.

Small farmers of indigenous foods lose income to capitalist food production, which creates ostensibly cheaper substitutes and stigmatizes indigenous food as unhealthy, inconvenient to produce, environmentally degrading, or inferior in taste.

Should we win socialism and eliminate capitalism in the U.S., significant racist stratification of the working class will continue. We will need to systematically root it out and defeat the racist forces within the working and middle class.

Proposed ballot collection restrictions in Arizona and Montana threaten Native Americans’ voting rights. Native and Indigenous American voters helped elect progressive candidates and now face new ballot “security” measures that make voting harder.

The U.S. government has never prosecuted a journalist or newspaper for publishing classified information, which constitutes an essential tool of journalism. WikiLeaks published evidence of war crimes that the U.S. military had committed...

"No Senate rule supersedes people's constitutional rights," said the Democratic senator from Georgia. And shame on us if we're more committed to a Senate rule than we are to the principles of democracy," Senator Raphael Warnock added.

She helped found the field of Hawaiian studies and pressed for Indigenous sovereignty. “We will die as Hawaiians,” she said. “We will never be Americans.”

Labor is going into a new decade weaker than it’s been in nearly a century. But the year was a promising one for those looking for sparks from the US working class — and hoping the new decade can stoke those sparks into a flame.

While the political situation often seems bleak and hopeless, these Palestinians, these changemakers, continue to try to make a difference, no matter how big or small, in the hopes that they can do better for their community.

The president tweeted the name of the presumed whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal—demonstrating that he is unrepentant and determined to break the law again.