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The historian and activist dedicated his life to showing how, and helping, working people not only imagine but build a better world. Working with his partner Alice (Niles) Lynd, he relentlessly sought out new sources of combat and inspiration.

Paul Schrade, 1924 - 2022, devoted his life to building an America and a California that enjoyed broadly shared prosperity and racial egalitarianism. It’s that for which he should be remembered.

New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week.

Democrats were ready to throw railworkers to the wolves, letting even Republicans outflank them on labor rights. But thanks to a last-minute legislative push by Bernie Sanders and his allies today, railworkers may be getting the sick leave they’re demanding.

"We need universal rent controls in this country, and we actually need the federal government to champion them."

Was there a conspiracy — even if it only involved a handful of people — at the highest levels of our government to end the American Experiment that was only defeated by sheer luck?

12,000 striking postdoctoral scholars reached a tentative agreement with the University of California to boost their wages and benefits.

A great transition in our hemisphere, and a labor action news roundup

President Biden wants to impose a tentative agreement on unions "without any modifications or delay"

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but that affiliation for the heir apparent to the current House Speaker should not be taken at face value.