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Union membership in the UK hit a historic low (23%) a few years ago. The pandemic has reminded many workers that the unions are their protective shield in a situation where employers were ordering them back to work in unsafe circumstances.

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An epochal general strike of workers in Seattle a century ago was not just an event in labor history but a testament to what workers can achieve when they organize. The book under review charts sharp lessons for today.

Austerity policy-making over the past 50 years has been racialized, withering services in public agencies ranging from K-12 schooling to hospitals to higher education. Matters of race must be made more visible, placed at the center of policy-making.

Jacob Blake’s shooting was the last straw for many athletes. Yesterday professional basketball teams threw their weight behind the movement for Black lives starting with the Milwaukee Bucks. Declining to show up for their game-they launched a strike

Kyle Rittenhouse's Facebook page, which was deactivated Wednesday morning after his bond court appearance, pays repeated homage to law enforcement, including a picture of him holding a long-arm rifle and framed with the “Blue Lives Matter” logo.

Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager, was killed for walking home at night. Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teenager, is being defended by Republicans after murdering two BLM protesters.

Argentinians across political lines issue anti-IMF manifesto, and reports from Canada, Germany, Greece, India, Philippines, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and Zambia

This book uses the history of photography and the history of imperialism to shed light on both the work of images and on the work of colonial and imperial domination.

Biden believes the future of auto workers can be as great as it was in the 1940s and 1950s, an era of growth for the auto manufacturers.