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A Life Worth Living

Obituary, Victor Grossman 11 March, 1928 – 17 December, 2025 The Left Berlin
Victor Grossman died on 17th December, 2025. He was 97, and for a long time it felt like he would go on for ever. Phil Butland remembers a comrade and friend.

Portugal’s General Strike

Irina Castro and Catarina Príncipe Jacobin
Portugal’s right-wing government is extending the anti-labor agenda it pushed during the austerity era. A 3-million-strong general strike on December 11 showed a resilient working-class response.

It’s Time To Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate

Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn The Guardian
Reformers must insist on remaking institutions like the US Supreme Court so that Americans don’t have to suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule that makes a parody of the democracy they were promised.

Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge

Gabrielle Gurley The American Prospect
Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.

Did Trump Really Fix NAFTA?

Adam S. Hersh Economic Policy Institute
Trump replaced NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement in 2020. But his USMCA has so far failed to make trade work for North American workers.