Portside

After a series of one-day strikes, marches and demonstrations, about 220 food- service workers at two Smithsonian museums will be represented by a union in contract negotiations for the first time.

The centre-left candidate won with about 62% support, the highest share of votes for any presidential candidate since the country returned to holding democratic elections in 1989.

The Left wants to give people the chance to do something with their lives, by giving them time and space away from the market.

The state of education is in disarray just like the state of capitalism.

Following a day of massive walkouts at three logistics centers in Germany on Monday in which a record 1,800 people participated, Amazon workers continued their strikes in Leipzig and Bad Hersfeld. In Seattle, multiple unions turned out to protest Amazon in solidarity with their union brothers and sisters in Germany.

The U.S. Congress is fighting over how much to cut food assistance to needy families. Everyone knows that women and their children are the poorest people in America, but strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate and have been absorbed into abstract “needy families.”

Media blackout hides Gitmo hunger strikes in a military bid to erode public support.

The area has seen dramatic actions by and on behalf of workers in the past few months. Activists are hoping what’s happened here has implications far beyond the Puget Sound.