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After tipped workers in Washington and New York won ballot box and legislative wage victories, their battles had only begun.

A northern pub landlord confronts locals’ hostility towards Syrian refugees in Loach’s latest – and possibly last – piece of politically trenchant cinema

In November, Mainers will vote on whether they want Pine Tree Power — a consumer-owned nonprofit utility — to replace the investor-owned utilities. Advocates say the result of the vote could have ripple effects across the country.

This is the week that the former president’s epic legal misadventures begin. It’s hard to imagine his coming out unscathed.

Private profiteers have concentrated the grip over real estate to such an extent that virtually every American lives in a company town now. Unions from all sectors need to wage campaigns for housing policies that break the grip of real-estate elites.

Moving the big polluters out of the crime scene by focusing on the individual is a proven PR or public relations (read: propaganda) con, a manipulative trick. It is a cunning move by industry – in short, a con.

Big Tech is on the spot

A National Labor Relations Board hearing officer ruled Friday that Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama can hold a union vote starting on Feb. 8.

Trump as Citizen Kane, and the challenge to the Left to prove to workers that it, not right-wing populists, truly represents them and will fight neoliberalism

We went to Iraq thinking this shooting was some form of innocent civilians caught in the crossfire between Blackwater guards and insurgents. After only one week, we determined that this incident was a massacre similar to My Lai in Vietnam.