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Knowing Fascism Requires Understanding Economic Forces

Taylor Dorrell Jacobin
Behind the confusion and debates about fascism lies a simple truth: it’s a power game driven by economic elites. Communists recognized that fascism’s form is shaped by class dynamics — an insight we shouldn’t forget.

The Big Union Contract Fights Coming in 2025

Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Keith Brower Brown Labor Notes
In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike wave rolling.

Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food

Michael Grunwald The New York Times
Environmentalists and even agribusinesses and food conglomerates talk about supplanting industrial methods with kinder and gentler “regenerative agriculture” that revives the pastoral wisdom of our ancestors.

Friday Nite Videos | December 13, 2024

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How We’re Rebuilding the Nation’s Largest Student Organization

Sean Behl The Forge
For over 70 years, the U.S. Student Association represented millions, weathered CIA infiltration, and championed civil rights and free higher education. Learn how this organization was built in the 1940s and why a new generation is rebuilding it.

Everyone (Sort of) Loves a Disrupter

John Feffer TomDispatch
Off-the-record, some liberals support Trump on a case-by-case basis. In normal times, finding overlapping interests with your political adversaries makes sense. But let’s be clear: Trump will not be playing by the rules of normal politics.