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This Week in People’s History, Aug 20–26, 2025

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Wall mural of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activist (and murder victim) Jonathan Daniels
Voting Rights Trial By Fire (1965), Take Your Racist Law and Shove It (1850), Let Slip the Dogs of War! (1775), Never Forget How We Got Here (1791),Thirty Years Too Many (1945), Born to Run, Indeed (1975), Nothing to Lose But Your Chains (1970)

What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means

Marc Kagan Jacobin
The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.

Why Lelo Juarez Chose Self-Deportation

David Bacon The Progressive
How the current conditions of immigrant detention and Trump Administration policies impelled a farmworker organizer to return to Mexico.

What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means

Marc Kagan Jacobin
The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.