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We need and deserve a better unemployment insurance system. And to get it, we are going to have to fight for it, and not be distracted by the temporary, although needed, band-aids Congress is willing to provide.

Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) members say they were blindsided by the news of an international alliance, and some are considering a push to disaffiliate from the Communications Workers of America.

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are producing a new TV series about female Kurdish fighters. We can expect a sanitized production that somehow fails to mention that YPJ forces in Rojava are leftists who oppose everything the Clintons represent.

After six days off the job, the strikers at Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx ratified a contract that doubled management’s wage offer and defeated a health care cost increase.

The energy company’s Nigerian subsidiary must pay out over a 2008 case, Court of Appeal in The Hague rules.

Many in the labor movement had pushed for Robb’s removal; they cheered. Employers, not so much. But who is Robb and why does it matter?

Last April, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that barred water shutoffs. At least 1.6 million California households, or one in eight, have water debt, and they could face shutoffs when Newsom ends the state of emergency.

Spurred by the success of the Tunisian Revolution, which resulted in the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14, 2011, the Cairo uprising shook the country, and then the region and the world. And the Arab Spring was born.

50 years ago, the struggle against urban renewal led a group of working class Puerto Ricans on Manhattan’s West Side to form a revolutionary socialist movement, combining community activism, Third World solidarity, and Puerto Rican independence.

On the 100th anniversary of the Italian Communist Party we should learn from Gramsci's legacy which lies in the attempt Italian Communists made to build forms of direct democracy alongside representative democracy,