Anchors for Hope: The Benefits of Left Nostalgia

Siobhan McGuirk Red Pepper (UK)
Nostalgia is frequently invoked by the reactionary right, but it has its uses on the left. We must reach towards the stars without forgetting all that remains buried in the ground beneath our feet.

Rolling Medicaid Purge

Jake Johnson Common Dreams
Largest Concentration of Health Insurance Loss in US History

U.S. Fighters in the Spanish Civil War

Roger Bybee MR Online
Miguel Ferguson, !Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War, ed. Paul Buhle and Fraser Ottanelli, art by Anne Timmons (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2022).

Countering Dangerous Work at Amazon

Caitlyn Clark Labor Notes
WIRED interviewed AMCARE staff at 12 different Amazon facilities. They found that management pushed on-site medical representatives (OMRs) to keep Amazon workers on the job and away from doctors.

Visiting

Rebecca Schumejda Cultural Daily
New York poet Rebecca Schumejda offers a parent’s heart-rending account of a visit to her incarcerated child.

Late-night Hosts' Podcast To Support Strike

With the dual Hollywood strikes continuing, late-night hosts are uniting for a limited-series podcast called “Strike Force Five,” with proceeds going to out-of-work staff from the hosts’ respective shows.