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Since the very earliest days of the United States, class was a central lens through which Americans interpreted politics . . . in the 1960s politicians began to focus on race and gender . . . Now, with Trump . . . class appears to be back . . .

The first season of Mo, comedian Mo Amer’s Netflix show, was a funny, moving look at life as a Palestinian immigrant in the US – then 7 October turned everything on its head. He talks about ceasefire hopes and why he can’t stop crying

Blanc argues that the current imbalance of power between labor and management in the U.S. can only be changed, for the better, with large-scale, coordinated organizing efforts rooted in the rank-and-file. His most detailed case focuses on Starbucks.

Yarvin serves exactly one purpose, and that is to spread the idea that this country would be better served by a dictatorship of capital, spearheaded by tech elites and their allies in government.

Donald Trump’s election is a morale booster for far-right politicians like Viktor Orbán, Javier Milei, and Giorgia Meloni. Having pioneered many of the destructive, reactionary ideas associated with Trumpism, they’re now aspiring to global hegemony.

The changes by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, could have far-reaching and dire effects.

Social Self-Defense Has Begun

Amazon Closes Its Operations in Quebec, Laying Off 1,700 Workers

I’m a propagandist, I’ll twist the truth, I’ll put forward only my version of it if I think that’s going to propagandise people to believe what I need them to believe.

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