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More than 100 Teamsters are on strike at the multinational Mauser Packaging Solutions plant in Chicago. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters extended picket lines to Los Angeles and Minnesota in June.

"It must be said," writes reviewer Finkel, "that this book is essential reading, but not pleasant for anyone."

A better world’s in birth

He sees Dracula as fiction’s ultimate capitalist victimizer, exploiting the lifeforce of others for his own pleasure, whether financial or physical. But the vampire has been exploited by plenty of capitalists as well, especially those in the movies.

International visitors to one of the world’s largest tourist destinations dropped 13% in June as workers face layoffs.

As regulators crack down on noncompete agreements that bar workers from finding better jobs, employees across the country are increasingly bound by a new form of “stay-or-pay” contract that indebts them to their bosses.

"If people aren't allowed to peacefully protest and the elections are being rigged through gerrymandering and voter suppression, how are Americans supposed to respond when they figure out their lives are being actively destroyed by a fascist gov't.

The neighborhood of Shuja'iyya was once home to 120,000 people. It has now been erased.

Review of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, by Osita Nwanevu.

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