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July 24, 2021

Robots Were Supposed to Take Our Jobs. Instead, They’re Making Them Worse.

Emily Stewart Vox

Technology doesn’t have to exploit workers, it doesn’t have to mean robots are coming for all of our jobs. These are not inevitable outcomes, they are human decisions, and they are almost always made by people driven by a profit motive.

July 24, 2021

The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party

Waldon Bello Foreign Policy in Focus

The Communist Party of China led three revolutions of world-historic significance in its short 100-year-history: national liberation, the “Cultural Revolution,” and China’s rapid capitalist transformation.

July 24, 2021

Every Memorial Tells a Story

Lynne Walsh Morning Star

Anything we can do to bring the sacrifices and bravery of the International Brigaders to a wider public consciousness is a reminder that we too must join the fight against fascism.

July 24, 2021

What Radical Black Women Can Teach Us All About Movement-Building

Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen & Robyn C. Spencer In These Times

Three historians lift up Black women journalists, organizers and activists who were critical to Black freedom movements but often erased from history.

July 24, 2021

Court Stops Police From Blockading Line 3 Protester Camp

Kenny Stancil Common Dreams

One attorney described the blockade as "an outrageous abuse of law enforcement authority serving the interests of the Enbridge corporation against its environmental opponents."

July 24, 2021

Workers Are Being Crushed by Governors’ Unemployment Benefit Shutoffs

Julia Rock and Andrew Perez Jacobin

Republicans are cutting off unemployment benefits at a time when huge numbers of workers still desperately need them — and the Democrats aren’t putting up a fight over it.

July 23, 2021

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Robots Were Supposed to Take Our Jobs. Instead, They’re Making Them Worse.

The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party

Every Memorial Tells a Story

What Radical Black Women Can Teach Us All About Movement-Building

Court Stops Police From Blockading Line 3 Protester Camp

Workers Are Being Crushed by Governors’ Unemployment Benefit Shutoffs

Professor Bullhead & Critical Race Theory

The Decline of the Death Penalty Across America

MAGA Crime Spree: Count Up to 12 Indictments

“Crime of the Century”: How Big Pharma Fueled the Opioid Crisis That Killed 500,000