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The rise of the Brics is not enough to displace the US or avert a third world war.

Drugmakers are charging foreigners far lower prices for medicines they want shielded from new Medicare price cuts.

Hundreds of new state laws come into effect on 1 September, including attacking trans rights, further limiting abortion and pushing back climate efforts

Unprecedented Corporate Greed Demands Unprecedented Worker Response

Poetry for Labor Day: The working-class persists, survives, says California poet Lita Kurth; but it sure isn’t easy.

There has not been a moment in modern history more urgent than now for workers to come together and join forces in solidarity.

From Gramsci’s political thinking and practical strategizing come a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time.

"All over the country, immigrant workers are a big part of the workforce. They're all part of a base that can force change. We can't depend on political winds or what people tell us is possible. We have to be tenacious for what's just and righteous."

Trump’s legal team cited the landmark Supreme Court decision related to the Scottsboro case, arguing that special counsel Jack Smith wasn’t allowing sufficient time for trial preparation. 

I’ll take the sentiments from both Oliver Anthony and Billy Bragg to honor working class narratives, channel feelings of disempowerment, and push for a more economically just country. Starting with better taxing rich men, wherever they live.