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Boxcar to Nowhere

Caroline Fraser The New York Review of Books
American lore about hoboes has sugared over the economic and environmental forces that drove people from their homes and onto the rails and roads in the first place, as a new history lays out.

The Making of Israel’s Palestinian Mafias

Ghousoon Bisharat (Host), Elat Ma (Guest) +972 Magazine
An epidemic of criminal violence is devastating Palestinian communities inside Israel, with this year’s death toll reaching 168 at the time of recording. But the numbers tell only part of the story: Mafia networks have penetrated almost every aspect

UAW President Shawn Fain Nears Reelection Victory

Luis Feliz Leon, Jane Slaughter Labor Notes
The election was a referendum on the new fighting direction Fain has taken the union by leading 2023’s Stand-Up Strike against the Big 3 automakers, other bold contract fights, and new organizing campaigns.

A Trusteeship in Buffalo

Steve Early, Suzanne Gordon New Politics
1,000 Health Care Workers Protest Take-Over of Their Local. Are Union Officials Listening?

Killing Zombie Trumpism

Andrea Pitzer. Degenerate Art
Stay the course until November 3, but plan for what comes after.

Setting the Record Straight on AOC & Gaza

Tom Gallagher Medium.com
AOC once said, “In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party.” She understands the need to collaborate with people with whom she has broad disagreements (a situation similar to working within DSA's "big tent.")