What Pennsylvania's Faculty Strike Means for the Future of Labor

Neil Cosgrove The New People
As labor battles are traditionally viewed, making concessions on salary and benefits would have to be considered a defeat. But the faculty union regards the result of the strike as a clear-cut victory, a victory that preserved what many regard as one of the best university faculty contracts in the country.

The Truth About Venezuela's Opposition

Lucas Koerner Jacobin
Yet strangely missing from the narrative of the Venezuelan opposition’s peaceful march to victory over a cruel dictatorship was the small detail of the murder of a Venezuelan police officer by demonstrators Wednesday evening.

How We Win

William Taylor Jr. portside.org
San Francisco poet William Taylor Jr. writes in the spirit of Beat poetry, finding sly ways of survival and triumph in an often dreary, hostile world.

#StandingRock Is One More Story of Injustice

Mark Trahant trahantreports.com
If the United States lived up to its own ideals there would be no stolen water, land, and dams on the Missouri River and the Army Corps of Engineers would have a long history of real negotiation with the tribes instead of a pretend consultation.

NC NAACP Wins Major Voting Rights Case

A federal judge orders North Carolina to reinstate the voter registrations of thousands who had been purged from the voter rolls. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with Dr. William Barber.