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Left Party Makes Comeback in German Election

Marcel Fürstenau DW.com (Deutsche Welle)
Early projections say Germany's socialist Left Party has managed to get reelected into the Bundestag, with a historically high result. This comes after a successful election campaign.

The Funeral of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah

Sharif Abdel Kouddous Drop Site News
Today's funeral was a display of mourning and a show of strength by Hezbollah at a time of internal crisis in Lebanon and an ultra-belligerent Israeli regime threatening more war.

Anvil, the Forgotten Magazine of Heartland Marxism

Marc Blanc Jacobin
Printed out of a cattle barn in Missouri, Anvil published some of the biggest leftist writers of the 1930s, including Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. Its popular vision for multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent.

Amazon Union Push Fails at North Carolina Warehouse

Danielle Kaye and Rebecca Davis O’Brien The New York Times
The outcome was a setback for workers trying to score a second election success at an Amazon facility. The union vowed to keep trying to organize.

Trump Sends Conflicting Medicaid Cut Messages

Ben Leonard, Adam Cancryn and Robert King Politico
Republicans are getting worried about how much they’ll have to cut from the popular health safety-net program, and whether the president will protect them from political blowback.

Why the Texas Measles Outbreak Was ‘Inevitable’

Joseph Choi The Hill
Critics of Kennedy accused him of fostering anti-vaccine sentiment in Samoa, months before an outbreak ultimately resulted in 83 measles-related deaths and more than 5,600 infections.

Migration on the Mon

Kalena Thomhave Dollars & Sense
The Mon Valley, an area ravaged by deindustrialization just outside of Pittsburgh, has attracted thousands of new immigrants in recent years, a fact President-elect Donald Trump exploited in his successful campaign for the White House.

War of Words: From the Mekong Delta to Gaza

Lawrence Tritle LA Progressive
It is the Palestinian’s people’s refusal to disappear, to hang on to their land, that has led so many Israelis to deploy the racist imagery of “human animals.”