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Take the “One Thousand Photos — One Thousand Shares” pledge at ActionNetwork.org, share it widely, and support the union activists leading the fight to transform garment supply chains.

In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.

Both in his lyrics and the visuals that he chooses to highlight in his videos, Lamar is never direct.

Following recent layoffs, an Alamo Drafthouse in Colorado has authorized a strike.

Donald Trump has championed tariffs as a way to revive American manufacturing. But without a real industrial strategy, Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber argues, they’re little more than a handout to capital.

What to Know About Boycott

The immediate task is to address delinking from the United States and the American Empire. This is not about aiming for a nationalist form of sovereignty but one based on collectively and democratically determining what kind of society we want.

To build formations capable of advancing both political and economic democracy, we need to grapple with the enduring footprint of anti-political thought in our organizations.

As we enter into Trump's second term, stories such as this and heroes like Diana Caballero remind us that change is possible under difficult circumstances; so we must not succumb to the temptation to abandon mass work and turn on each other.

Consumer sentiment is falling off a cliff in the early Trump period.