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pensions, Mandela, Trade pact, Germany, shaking hands

The members of the University of Illinois Chicago, have voted to go on strike after fifteen months of negotiations. Among the faculty members key demands are improvements in pay for adjunct professors. In light of Congress planning to fail to extend unemployment benefits for the long term unemployed, we present Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird's video of "March of the Jobless Corps".

President's party thwarts opposition hopes of denting Maduro's power in what it called a referendum on his performance

The creepiest gifts given in the animal kingdom

A few years of experience with the Volcker Rule will probably be enough to demonstrate that it’s insufficient to change the behavior of JP Morgan and the banker gang.

Plutocracy Versus Democracy: We are surely nearer the beginning of the struggle for justice than the end