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60 Years Later: The Enduring Legacy of the Bay of Pigs Fiasco

Stephen F. Knott History News Network
The most important consequence of the failure of Bay of Pigs was Kennedy’s decision to intensify covert efforts to topple the Castro regime. Operating under the codename “Operation Mongoose” the President placed his brother Robert Kennedy in charge

Organizing in the South

Joseph B. Atkins Portside
Amazon is organized in other parts of the world but like the foreign auto companies that dot the South tolerates no union in Dixie.

Right to Work has Failed to Live up to Conservative Hype

Rick Haglund Michigan Advance
The annual decline in the number of union members actually slowed after the a right-to-work law in Michigan took effect in 2013. And membership grew to 604,000 in 2020 from 589,000 in 2019. 

Farmworkers Need Families, Not Deportation and Exploitation

David Bacon and Anuradha Mittal The Reality Check
High-wages and secure jobs for farmworkers can only come by discarding the old deportation/guestworker model, and instead supporting families with legalization, family-based visas, and unions and labor rights.

An Offering to Our Asian Sisters

Zillah Eisenstein From the Square/NYU Press Blogs
Join the Anti-Racist marches in the streets, and stand up for structural revolutionary anti-racist socialist feminism.