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UFCW President Stepping Down, Successor To Be Appointed This Week

Lisa Xu Labor Notes
United Food and Commercial Workers President Mark Perrone is expected to announce his retirement this week. The reform organization Essential Workers for Democracy (EW4D) is pushing for a transparent and democratic process to choose a successor.

Democrats Learned To Love Class Dealignment

Neal Meyer Convergence
The neoliberal economic program embraced by the Clinton-era Democratic Party alienated many working-class voters. Democrats responded by reorienting their electoral strategy toward professional-class voters, accelerating workers’ departure

Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH

Gregg Gonsalves The Nation
Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.

A Fighting Union’s Path to Renewal: The UE Story

Chris Townsend UE News
The ongoing organizational renewal and substantial growth of UE is one of the most remarkable stories in the U.S. labor movement in decades. Of the 42 unions who comprised the founding roster of the CIO in 1938 only eight survive intact today.

History Is Our Battleground

Walter Baier Transform!Europe
This year marks a crucial moment in the struggle over historical memory. We commemorate the liberation of the concentration camps, the capitulation of the German Wehrmacht, and the end of Nazi barbarism. But what lessons have been learned?