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Here is a book on union organizing that seems about to become a classic for our times.

A joint project of the Democratic Socialists of America and the United Electrical workers union, Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee recruited volunteers to talk with workers who wanted to organize around COVID-19 concerns.

After all, writing one’s own history, too, is an act of emancipation.

‘Diplomacy, not murder, is the best path forward,’ said Bernie Sanders. Here’s how to make that happen.

Only government intervention can keep millions of Americans housed.

Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid ‘severe climate disruption’ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases

How France responded when a right to post was taken away. Holiday gift scams, Substack, the Huawei war, and more.

I’m the chair of the local Democratic Party in a Wisconsin county that Donald Trump won. It wasn’t for a lack of progressive organizing. It was because national Democrats have failed communities like mine.

Inequality is reaching feudal proportions, where very few own almost everything, and everyone else is crushed under the wheel of engineered destitution.

As this book both documents and generously discusses, rising income inequality leads to a plague of ills: higher rates of people in prison, higher teenage birth rates, higher rates of mental illness, more child neglect and bullying.