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There’s a strong feminist working-class voice in the poetry of Australian writer Lesbia Harford 1891-1927.

The president pledged to require businesses to make workplaces safe from the coronavirus on the campaign trail. Now he may not.

How many Black people have to be killed by police before politicians realize that expensive reforms don’t work? Like so many Black Americans, Wright justifiably feared police interactions. The Black fear of police is grounded in provable police bias.

Drives to organize steelworkers and autoworkers took decades but ultimately succeeded.

On Tax Day, there’s more than one elephant in the room, and they’re all in mansions.

Can Democrats truly reconcile with those Republicans who called President Biden’s election fraudulent and encouraged violent attack of the U.S. Capitol?

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Eric Hobsbawm, among the most pre-eminent and valued Marxist historians of the late twentieth century, frequently reviewed for the London Review of Books. Here, a prominent British author does a dig into some of Hobsbawm’s many signal LRB essays.

Organizing is sacred work. We’re dealing with the most difficult material to build with: people. If the first person you’re trying to organize rejects you, that’s okay, go to the next person. Know that there are people who want to hear and join.

Unions need labor law reform through the PRO Act. But even if that bill remains off the table in the near future, Joe Biden can use executive orders immediately to roll back corporate union-busting like Amazon carried out in Bessemer, Alabama.