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The ANC’s historical losses in local elections should serve as a wake up call for the future, the trade union federation, COSATU, stated in a press release.

Although this book is two years old, and this review is over a year old, the relevance of A. J. Muste still resonates in this political season, where the always essential questions of war and peace should take center stage. Muste helped shape the modern peace movement in a host of ways. This book, and this review, offers a window into the life and times of this important movement figure.

How has Trump managed to attract substantial support among white men without college degrees? According to Raymond Hogler, "The answer is an interlocking set of changing economic and cultural conditions in the U.S. that has undermined middle-class incomes and values. And it starts with the steady erosion of the American labor movement."

Deaths like that of Darius Robinso at the hands of prison guards underlie the lethal risk faced by those who are incarcerated.

Workers are picketing Southwest Airlines at 10 airports. Union leaders say that the company has been privileging stockholders at the expense of workers, despite record profits.

A unique community-owned broadband cooperative will free dozens of tiny towns and farms from reliance on slower corporate providers.

In addition, Trump said he would lower corporate tax rates from 40% to 15% - a rate he said punished "companies for making products in America".

Out of touch; Unnoticed; Inside; Over the edge; Ending cute

Adolph Reed on assumptions about black voters, the legacy of the Sanders campaign, and the task ahead.

Unions must expand beyond narrow bargaining to challenge those who hold wealth and power at the highest levels. Most unions are accustomed to bargaining with their direct employers, as they have done for decades. But the financialization of the economy has rendered that structure obsolete. In order to win for workers, unions need to take their demands directly to those who actually have the money and control. They can often be found on Wall Street.