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About 100 employees at the American Library Association (ALA) began voting on April 24 to form ALA Workers United (ALAWU), a new union at the 150-year-old association.

International labour standards, trade union rights, and collective action remain our strongest tools. On this May Day, our message is clear: we will defend these rights, we will organize across borders.

The Chicago economic, racial and gender-justice organizer died April 24 at home surrounded by loved ones after a nine-year battle with cancer.

Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. would be a huge blow to filmmakers and film lovers alike.

The governor and City Council speaker need to let Zohran Mamdani govern on all the things he ran on.

A history of the Voting Rights Act, as the US Supreme Court demolishes a provision that prevented racial discrimination.

This book, says reviewer Silverstein, "is written for this moment. More than translating Bundist theory from Yiddish," he adds, author Crabapple "puts it into the language of today’s left."

Things to remember and celebrate this May Day

The demonstrations in Ireland still show how small-scale protests driven by economic malaise can get national attention and prompt change.

Machiavelli argued that it is better to be feared than loved. Donald Trump fails at both internationally—and it makes him dangerous.