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It didn’t need to. It shouldn’t have. But there’s a big reason why it thought it must.

I was forced to come to terms with the fact that I was playing a leading role in a system that made desperate people wait months or longer to get care, or go deep into medical debt.

Yesterday Donald Trump confirmed that he’s considering privatizing the US Postal Service. That would be a big step in the direction of a libertarian dystopia.

Spike in fossil fuel use a result of global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Activist and writer Jim Williams, in his new autobiography, covers his life from Students for a Democratic Society activist, to Communist labor editor, to social worker.

From planetarium lecturers to performers at strip clubs and escape rooms, Actors’ Equity is organizing live entertainment workers far beyond traditional musicals. The union’s strategy could be crucial as unions brace for a potential anti-labor admin

The great solidarity movement of 2024

“Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) co-leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have floated a number of plans targeting federal workers, including plans to end telework.

Neither major party candidate represented a challenge to U.S. complicity in Israel’s horrific war on the people and land of Gaza.

An edited and expanded version of remarks by Bill Fletcher, Jr. offered at “A Strategy for Labor, A CUNY Panel Discussion of Honor of Merle Ratner,” December 12, 2024