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Last week, IAM District 15 announced the formation of the Independent Drivers Guild [IDG], a new association created to represent New York City’s 35,000 Uber drivers. The IDG will strive to secure job protections and benefits for Uber drivers without actually engaging in collective bargaining...

When Ada Colau was elected mayor of Barcelona, she became a figurehead of the new leftwing politics sweeping Spain. The question she now faces is a vital one for the left across Europe – can she really put her ideas into practice?

No Wonder Trump is Afraid -- a Debate with Bernie Sanders Would Show Who's Really on the Side of Working People.

A video of Marta Harnecker presenting on the topic "People's power and political instruments."

While unauthorized immigrants contribute billions in taxes, they use shockingly little health care. Most of the federal health programs they help pay for (like Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA’s plans) exclude them. And those who pay for private coverage use very little care, so their premiums effectively subsidize other enrollees with private insurance.

The exiled Persian poet Majid Naficy draws on Christian parable (the Book of Matthew), suggesting that some of the irate voices on our streets are not enemies but prophets.

Neanderthals and Denisovans may have supplied modern humans with genetic variants that let them thrive in new environments.

What is the true economic narrative about the 1990s? Was it a time of shared American prosperity brought on by smart policy? Or was it a time when the style of laissez-faire attitudes forged in the 1980s was co-opted by Democrats and began to create the growing inequality and periodic crises we’ve since become used to?

'What we want today is for this movement to spread,' says a leader of the CGT, which is organizing the protests.

The passion around his presidential campaign can be channeled into transforming Congress. We’ll pool resources across the US to beat big money.