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Canadian members of U.S.-based unions – the International Unions – face a new and gigantic question: are the U.S. leaders of their unions doing something, or anything, to oppose the new Trump onslaught on Canada? On them?

In dozens of states, students have staged walkouts over immigration enforcement. In Texas, they’re doing so despite threats from Gov. Greg Abbott.

As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jackson’s accomplishments were massive. He was one of the towering figures of American progressive politics in his era — or any era.

Why does a lie that has never been proven, never worked, and never been real still hold the power to undermine an entire democracy?

Lawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

This book, writes reviewer Early, "is a fine, solidly written biographical and political study of Jesse Jackson and the rise of Black presidential aspirations in the American two-party system."

The number of workers covered under union contracts increased to a 16-year high in 2025, despite ongoing attempts by the Trump administration to wipe out collective bargaining agreements for tens of thousands of federal workers.

Largest strike in world history

Thousands of Kaiser health care workers, including 22,000 nurses in Southern California, are on strike to demand better pay and staffing. The walk out has resulted in canceled or delayed appointments and surgeries, patients say.

International support for a Palestinian state has never been stronger, but the territory that could be included in such a state is disappearing like sand in an hourglass.