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Greece’s Tragic Rail Accident Was Caused by Austerity and Privatization

Matthaios Tsimitakis and Mihalis Panayiotakis Jacobin
Last week, two trains collided in central Greece, claiming 57 lives. Unions had long warned that cuts to the now-privatized rail network would cause a severe accident, but neither the government nor the country’s corporate media heeded the calls.

The Rotten Roots of the IMF and the World Bank

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Jamie Martin The Nation
A conversation with Jamie Martin about the imperial origins of the world’s economic governance, imagining an alternative to these institutions, and his new book, The Meddlers.

Scranton Teachers Will Go on Strike

Diane Ravitch Diane Ravitch's blog
The Scranton Federation of Teachers, representing more than 800 teachers and paraprofessionals, announced today that it will set up picket lines and go on strike at 12:01 a.m., Nov. 3. The union has been working under a contract that expired in 2017

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