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Solidarity with Blackjewel Coal Miners

Showing Up for Racial Justice SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice
aerial shot of miners' blockage
It is defined by the complete disregard by those in charge with the lives of those they exploit in the search for continuous profit and power.

The Great Land Robbery

Vann R. Newkirk II The Atlantic
Man looking at posted no hunting sign on farm in Mississippi.
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

Oatmeal: is it Healthy?

Markham Heid TIME
Pretty much everyone agrees that eating oatmeal—assuming you’re opting for a type free of sugar and unhealthy additives—is a good idea. But it’s important to differentiate the different types of oatmeal: steel-cut, rolled, quick-cooking, instant.

A Year of Organizing Freelance Journalists

IWW member-organizer Organizing Work
The Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union is one year old. A member-organizer describes the campaign.

Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
The invisible hand is more like a thumb on the scale for the world’s elites. That’s why market fundamentalism has been unmasked as bogus economics but keeps winning politically.

Kashmir on the Edge of the Abyss

Tariq Ali The New York Review of Books
Modi has said that what he is doing is the only rational “Kashmir solution.” For him, it is the final political solution, and if the Muslims of Kashmir object, they will simply be crushed.

Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End

Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik Monthly Review
The ideology of neoliberal capitalism was the promise of growth. But with neoliberal capitalism reaching a dead end, this promise disappears and so does this ideological prop.