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This union-busting "religious exemption" move was abruptly announced on the faculty’s 234th day of working without a contract, following the administration’s prolonged stalling of contract negotiations and hiring of the notorious union-busting firm.

Nearly 60 years ago poet Diane di Prima offered witness to the stealth, courage and discipline required to resist a tyrannical government, lessons once again appropriate for activists and ordinary citizens.

The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists. Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck.

All evidence points to the US determination to release the full might of its military prowess on unseating the Islamic Republic. In the absence of massive ground invasion this goal is only achievable by total annihilation of the entire infrastructure

Massive, industrial spaces, built for holding goods to be shipped elsewhere. Warehouses are drafty and difficult to heat, hard-floored and high-ceilinged, not meant for human habitation. But Trump's ICE is aiming to convert them into detention camps

Bruce Springsteen wrote “The Streets of Minneapolis” on Saturday, January 24, the day the videos of Alex Pretti being thrown to the ground and shot in the back by federal ethnic-cleansing goons zoomed around the globe.

Reader Comments: State of the Union or of the Confederacy; Justice Department; Minneapolis Victory; Last Week's People's History - A Correction; Need to Take Action: Cuban Americans Say: Engagement Not Escalation; lots more and cartoons too...

A rare united general strike has shaken Portugal’s right-wing government, placing labour rights, precarity and collective power at the centre of national politics.

Palestinians and Israelis on the right and left all say that the move is a step toward legitimizing the Israeli settlements, which most of the world considers illegal.