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A new film from Abigail Disney, granddaughter of the co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, takes a look at how workers have been crushed by a new corporate philosophy.

The pandemic pushed University of Michigan nurses to the breaking point, as supervisors forced overtime work to account for understaffing. So nurses organized through their union, winning a contract that should inspire nurses everywhere.

CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021

Brinda Karat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on why there is no contradiction in supporting Iranian women burning their hijabs – and Karnataka women fighting for their right to wear them

“The buses are not letting up. They are coming with more vigor. Initially it was a bus or two, then it rose to three, and now NYC receives six or nine buses a day coming directly from Texas.”

In 2006, of those aged 18-21, 11% supported the Green Party and 10% supported the Left Party. By 2022, these figures dropped to 5% and 10% respectively. In contrast, those in this age cohort supporting Nazi-founded SD increased from 3% to 22%.

The Tollywood blockbuster RRR is a hit on Netflix, but its casteist politics aren’t so simple.

Young people in the labor movement want to bargain on climate issues in contract negotiations.

Medicare for All would take the profit motive out of insurance; public manufacturing of prescription drugs would take it out of providing care

The country’s so-called new religions have caused a disproportionate amount of turmoil.