Portside

A rare united general strike has shaken Portugal’s right-wing government, placing labour rights, precarity and collective power at the centre of national politics.

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Bruce Springsteen wrote “The Streets of Minneapolis” on Saturday, January 24, the day the videos of Alex Pretti being thrown to the ground and shot in the back by federal ethnic-cleansing goons zoomed around the globe.

Massive, industrial spaces, built for holding goods to be shipped elsewhere. Warehouses are drafty and difficult to heat, hard-floored and high-ceilinged, not meant for human habitation. But Trump's ICE is aiming to convert them into detention camps

All evidence points to the US determination to release the full might of its military prowess on unseating the Islamic Republic. In the absence of massive ground invasion this goal is only achievable by total annihilation of the entire infrastructure

The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists. Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck.

The democracy question

This book examines organized crime in New York City unions and the rank and file fightback.

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to ratify their first union contract last week, securing pay bumps, job protections and a rare win for the United Auto Workers union in the South.

President Donald Trump’s expansion of the blockade is the latest chapter in an aggression waged by 12 successive US presidents. It’s time to close the book.