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Gig Workers Need a Solid Floor and Portable Benefits

Meegan Dugan Adell and Morgan Polk Jacobin
We can’t let gig-worker protections remain dependent on each new administration’s priorities. We need to experiment with new approaches, from passing strong state classification laws to scaling employer-of-record systems that give gig workers stabili

Barbara Kopple on Her Labor Documentary Masterpieces

Interview with Barbara Kopple by Alex N. Press Jacobin
Barbara Kopple’s films Harlan County USA and American Dream captured labor struggle as it was happening: on picket lines, inside unions, and under pressure. Decades later, both remain some of the finest labor documentaries ever made.

The Haymarket Affair in Three Monuments

Peter Cole Long Haul Magazine
The Haymarket Martyrs got a monument of their own in the cemetery where they rest, initiated and funded by working-class people—not “city fathers.

Israel Just Quadrupled Its PR Budget to $730M

Asaf Elia-Shalev Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Experts say it won’t work. Spending on image should be “like investing in jets, bombs and missile interceptors,” Israel’s foreign minister says.

“They Died With Their Fists Raised.”

Vangelis Panagiotara and Boris Kanzleiter in conversation with Menelaos Charalambidis Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
On May 1 1944, Wehrmacht soldiers shot 200 communists in Athens. Recently photographs of the massacre surfaced online, reopening old wounds.

Friday Nite Videos | May 1, 2026

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AI Chatbots | John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses AI chatbots, why they’re flirting with users unprompted and encouraging people to open soggy cereal cafes, and how their flaws can be genuinely hazardous to the public.