Save the Post Office
Labor Notes
The Postmaster General’s New Attack on the Mail is a Fig Leaf for Privatization.
On VE Day, We Remember the Partisans Who Risked Everything for Freedom
Jacobin
This day in 1945, Nazi Germany finally surrendered. Faced with revisionist attempts to claim the war was a struggle between “twin totalitarianisms,” we should remember the working-class partisans who resisted the fascist violence
Police and the License to Kill
Boston Review
Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it reveals why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better.
The ignorance that Underpinned Empire and Slavery Still Has Staunch Defenders
The Guardian
It’s not the ‘woke’ who want to erase the past, but those who are determined that it should never be examined.
Colombia on the Brink
CounterPunch
The defeat of the regressive tax bill is an unprecedented triumph for the youth, the urban poor, and the unions of teachers and health care workers who promoted the uprising.
If Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case Is a ‘Non-Issue,’ Why Have Media Gone to Such Lengths to Silence Him?
FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Elite media would have us believe they are engaged in a serious reckoning with the racism of the US criminal justice system, that they care about over-incarceration and prison conditions. Yet elite media continues its silence about Mumia.
Friday Nite Videos | May 7, 2021
Portside
A 60-Second Rant for DC Statehood | Mehdi Hasan. Yasmin Williams | "Restless Heart". We Will Transform Kentucky | Charles Booker. Desi Lydic Foxsplains: Is America a Racist Country? The Black Church That Could Bankrupt the Proud Boys.
A 60-Second Rant for DC Statehood | Mehdi Hasan
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and politicians who ignore their state's own history shouldn't decry DC statehood. In a mini-rant, NBC’s Mehdi Hasan introduces the pot to the kettle. Start the clock!
Yasmin Williams | "Restless Heart"
Yasmin Williams only started playing the guitar after beating all the songs on expert-level on Guitar Hero II. Now she is one of a new generation who are changing the face of guitar soloists.
We Will Transform Kentucky | Charles Booker
Charles Booker believes that there is a progressive movement rising in Kentucky, and if people work together they can win back the Senate seat held by Rand Paul for the people.
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