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Hardline U.S. Stance Ignores Non-GM Corn Opportunity for U.S. Farmers

Ken Roseboro and Timothy A. Wise Food Tank
U.S. farmers of non-GMO corn could earn premium prices, particularly attractive right now that corn prices fell more than 30 percent last year. U.S. trade officials prefer not to discuss non-GM opportunities but some farmers would welcome them.

To Defeat the Far Right, We Must Build From the Bottom Up

Luis Feliz Leon Convergence
The movement to defeat the Far Right must include immigrant workers and members of other oppressed groups, working through their own independent and durable mass organizations rooted in workplaces and neighborhoods.

Two Oppenheimers, Two Views of Who Should Control the Bomb

KC Cole Knowable Magazine
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent Robert Oppenheimer and his brother Frank on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.

This Week in People’s History, Mar. 12–18

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Huge pile of abandoned streetcars on the scrap-heap
Who Wrecked the Trains? (in 1949), Forward Ever, Backward Never! (1979), Take Your Blacklist and Shove It! (1954), Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (1964), Paris Commune and Marx (1884), Terror in Nicaragua (1984), Terror in Arkansas (1899)

Unions Can’t Be Rebuilt Piecemeal. We Need To Go Big.

AN INTERVIEW WITH ERIK LOOMIS BY BENJAMIN Y. FONG Jacobin
The 1930s rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations led to millions of people being union members for the first time. The lesson of the CIO is that it’s necessary to harness the collective power of the working class on a grand scale.

Gender Wage Gap Persists in 2023

Elise Gould Economic Policy Institute
March 12 is Equal Pay Day, a reminder that there is still a significant pay gap between men and women in our country. Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average.