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Union Wins Election at a Second Buffalo-Area Starbucks

Noam Scheiber The New York Times
Since the initial victory in Buffalo, workers at several other Starbucks stores throughout the country have filed for union elections, including in Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Knoxville, Tenn.

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the World's Future

Lawrence Wittner Common Dreams
The most promising course of action for human survival might well lie in a mobilization to compel the nuclear nations to accept the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to accept a restrained role in a cooperatively-governed world.

Class Struggle Built the Swedish Welfare State

Nick French Jacobin
Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.

Origin Stories

Jacqueline Keeler CounterPunch
people protesting with raised fists and signs reading "defend the sacred"
Does the United States have a homeland? Is it truly a nation? Or is it still just a colony that exists to exploit the homelands of other peoples?

Food and Culture

Ashawnta Jackson JSTOR
Food is complicated. That creation you love from “The Great British Baking Show? It’s been the subject of arguments over culture, identity and copyright.

Student Workers at Columbia End 10-Week Strike After Reaching a Deal

Ashley Wong The New York Times
Student Workers of Columbia - United Auto Workers Local 2110, which represent 3,000 graduate and undergraduate students, gave their tentative blessing on Friday to a new contract that raises their wages and improves their health benefits.