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Bringing back proletarian internationalism one May Day at a time

As streaming content has boomed, the Writers Guild of America says that new media models like Netflix and other online platforms have steadily eroded workers' pay and writers' ability to earn a living in Hollywood. Some 11,500 members are on strike.

65 years ago, the Golden Rule ignited protests that led to a partial ban on nuclear weapons testing. Now it’s back to fight for nothing short of abolition.

SEIU President Mary Kay Henry outlines strategies to kickstart a national fast food union and reform labor law.

Carter and Long make a compelling case that it was the FDIC, the SEC and the Federal Reserve that brought the banks down, by a coordinated, extrajudicial “war on crypto” that blocked that otherwise-legal industry from acquiring the banking services it needs.

“We don’t have any restrictions on our groundwater,” Holly Irwin, a La Paz County supervisor, told The Hill. “So it’s like a free for all.”

Among the last journalists left in Ukraine after the invasion, Mystylav Chernov captures a horrifying portrait of destruction in “20 Days in Mariupol" a pulsating documentary about the first three weeks of the Russian siege that killed tens of thousands of people.

Tucker, Lemon, BuzzFeed, Vice News – dropping like flies

When we eat, the social context matters perhaps even more than the food.

For May Day, we talked to young workers—in tech, retail, food service, and more—about what brought them to the labor movement. Those under 35 overwhelmingly approve of organized labor—77 percent.