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What a Labor Union Is and How It Works

Kim Kelly Teen Vogue
Unions give workers the power to improve their workplaces, and have a long history of creating lasting, progressive changes, from the institution of the eight-hour workday to health and safety regulations. Maybe someone in your family — a parent, an aunt or uncle, a grandparent — is in a union.

The Case for Free Public Transport

Connor Beaton Monthly Review
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a proud advocate of a world-class, fare-free public transport system for Scotland.

Abecedarian Yellow

Dan Vera The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database
Poet Dan Vera adds fine-tuned anti-imperial politics to everything you need to know about bananas—and banana republics—from A to Z.

Sixteen Tums | parody of Sixteen Tons

This protest song describing the plight of the worker is as apt now as it was when it was written back in the 1940s. The lyrics have been updated but the sentiment is the same.