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This new book offers a history and analysis of the contributions of black workers to our society. It shows just how key a knowledge of black workers' history is to an understanding the working class's fortunes and history overall.

The picketing GM workers and impending Chicago Teachers Union action suggest a dramatic revival of striking as a tactic.

"Joe Kennedy thinks that with the backing of the establishment and the old guard of the Democratic Party that he can beat a progressive champion for justice. Let's show Kennedy that he's wrong."

Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering.

Stockton is conducting a basic income experiment — and the early results are in.

At the top there’s corruption, down below there’s dismantling and disarray. Americans are entering a period of immense danger

FCC Beats Back Net Neutrality; Making Journalists Beg; The State of Cable News in Trump's Crisis; iPhone Exploits; Egypt's Rising Movement Finds a Cartoon Rallying Point

'Joker' is ultimately an-in-your face examination of a broken system that creates its own monsters. It’s a gritty and morbidly beautiful journey with little comfort to spare, but many messages to mull over.

Some Democratic candidates are pushing it as a free-choice version of Medicare for All. That’s good rhetoric but bad policy.