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The administration took aim at the Twin Cities because of the George Floyd uprising, a sense of disciplining the population. Unions which want to be fighters for the working class have to be a part of this fight.

Gotta Go Down and Join the Union (1976), Lynchings on Long Island (1946), Autherine Lucy Didn’t Know the Meaning of ‘Quit’ (1956), Baby Doc Throws In the Towel (1986), Tell the Crowd How You Really Feel! (1911), Free and Fearless (1941)

The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Spanish political leaders know that the economy relies on undocumented migrants and their labor. Rather than step up expulsions, Pedro Sánchez’s government has announced plans to regularize over 500,000 migrants’ status.

New York hospitals are ignoring striking nurses’ demands for patient and health care worker safety and respect and trying to weaken one of the city’s most important unions. Mayor Mamdani and his movement have a key role to play in helping nurses win.

Government corruption and overreach are frequent themes in both Marvel Comics and the MCU. The same week the series was released, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) faced public heat regarding the actions and overreach of ICE agents.

Parents’-rights crusaders seeking to impose their Christian nationalist vision on the United States took their playbook from South America.

The attorney general wrote that the directives must be rescinded, adding that the government's instructions 'do not exist in a vacuum,' but part of a 'series of governmental moves aimed at curtailing criticism that does not find favor with the author

The first time since 1964 that New York City has set a minimum wage standard for private sector workers and other top labor stories in New York City. Mayor Mamdani addresses the $12 billion budget gap left by his predecessor Mayor Adams.

The administration’s efforts show the lengths to which Trump is willing to go to lay the groundwork for 2026