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Right-wing media in lockstep with Trump’s coup, and more

In a vote of 606-104, researchers at the University of Washington have voted to unionize across all three campuses. The bargaining unit is made up of a total of 1,450 employees of the university across all research areas.The new UW Researchers United joins the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4121 alongside 100,000 academic employees at more than 40 universities and colleges across the country.

The Vermont independent isn't buying the happy talk from a party still talking up a pre-midterm turnaround. And he has a prescription to avoid it.

In light of recent revelations about the Martin family’s political activities, chefs are looking for alternatives to Martin’s products known for their association with Shake Shack, which uses them at locations around the world.

The Poor People's Campaign demands a “Third Reconstruction” to shift national priorities and rebuild the economy from the bottom up.

In 1862, more than 900 enslavers living in the nation’s capital received money compensating them for the immediate emancipation of the more than 3,000 people they enslaved.

Felony disenfranchisement laws are rooted in the Jim Crow era and were implemented to suppress Black electoral power

The SACP calls for working-class unity and “patriotic and left popular fronts” to challenge big business oligarchs, reverse their influence in the state apparatus and put South Africa on the road to economic, social and green transformations.

We are leading Nature on a journey to help decolonize research and forge a path towards restorative justice and reconciliation.

Will today’s unions invest big-time in the young workers now beginning to rebuild American labor? Or will they remain AWOL and ensure the movement’s continued decline?