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Peet’s Workers United received assistance from Starbucks Workers United organizers.

The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.

Labor organizing is severely restricted in Iran but independent unions have actively backed demands for women’s rights.

Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work

U.K. workers rise up against Conservatives’ attempt to hollow out their right to strike.

Remembering a pathbreaker for free media

Democracy Now interviews director Santiago Mitre about “Argentina, 1985,” his dramatization of the Trial of the Juntas, when a civilian court prosecuted Argentina’s former military leaders for brutal crimes committed during the U.S.-backed right-wing military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. The film just won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture in a Non-English Language and is also shortlisted for an Oscar for best international film.

It is not difficult to understand what employers are after. They want to abolish the welfare state, to privatize and corporatize ever bigger parts of our economies and societies, and to defeat the trade union movement.

If you’re reading this, you are likely concerned about how this year's election is taking place.This guide is designed to help people from all walks of life take action to ensure that we have a successful election in November 2020.

Climate change is fast making large parts of the US uninhabitable. As the South and the Southwest grow more dangerous and hot, people will be forced to move north. And those who stay behind will be disproportionately poor and elderly.