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After Nasrallah

Adam Shatz London Review of Books
Hizbullah is not a personality-driven organisation, or claims not to be, but in Nasrallah it had a leader of unusual gifts.

Meet Lucie Castets, the French Left’s Nominee for Prime Minister

Harrison Stetler Jacobin
After the New Popular Front won July’s French elections, it nominated Lucie Castets for prime minister. Emmanuel Macron ignored the result. Castets told Jacobin how the left-wing coalition can build on its progress and stop the lurch to the right.

Potential Impacts of a Full Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Massachusetts

Jeanette Wicks-Lim and Jasmine Kerrissey Political Economy Research Institute
Massachusetts will vote on Question 5 to eliminate a subminimum wage for tipped workers. This brief describes the workers who will be directly affected by eliminating the subminimum wage & considers impact on job quality, employment, costs & prices.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 23–29

Portside
Church in McComb, Mississippi, after it was destroyed by a bomb in 1964
Wrist-Slaps for Racist Terrorists (1964), Stop Global Warming! (2009), An ‘October Surprise’ for the Ages (1924), Nothing New About ‘Lock ‘em Up!’ (1994), Integrated Schools – ‘Just Around the Corner’ (1969)

Israel’s War Against the World

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies LA Progressive
Israel’s relationship with the UN and the rest of the world is at a breaking point, and U.S. obstruction offers no solution to this crisis—it only fuels it.

Why My Coworkers and I Unionized Our Architecture Firm

Je Siqueira Jacobin
This summer, workers at Bernheimer Architecture in New York City became the first private sector architects in the US to ratify a union contract. An architect at the firm explains their road to a first collective bargaining agreement.

In the Shadow of King Coal

Sarah Jones Dissent Magazine
While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.