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With Anti-DSA Bill, Congress Is Red-Baiting Like It’s 1955

Ben Burgis Jacobin
The House just passed a resolution condemning the Democratic Socialists of America and socialism broadly. While it rehearses opposition to Stalinist authoritarianism, the bill’s real preoccupation is with socialists’ advocacy for expanded democracy.

This Week in People’s History, Sep 9–15, 2026

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Sanctuary activists preventing INS van from deporting refugees
Activists Resist U.S. Government Deportation Spree (1981), Round Up the Usual Suspects! (1901), ‘Freedom Began Here’ (1851), Sunshine Is the Best Disinfectant (1976), A Billion Here, A Billion There, Pretty Soon You’re Talking About Real Money (1996)

Labor Day Lessons: Can CIO Best Practices Aid Union Organizing Today?

Steve Early CounterPunch
In his new book, Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy: Building a Progressive Labor Movement (Cornell), sociology professor Kim Scipes examines parallel efforts to build two CIO unions in the Midwest—via the Steel Workers and Packinghouse Workers.

India’s Gen Z Protests Are Breaking the Grip of Fear

Ashok Kumbamu Jacobin
The protest movement by young people in India has challenged the culture of fear that protects Narendra Modi’s Hindutva government. They are carving out the space for a future without Modi and his divisive authoritarian agenda.