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2025 in Review: Stark Battle Lines, Big Potential

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
The working class is in the fight of our lives. The unity between Trump and the billionaires exploiting us isn’t even hidden anymore. It will take a lot of organizing and ironclad working-class unity to match these forces, but the fight is on.

Is a New “New Deal” About To Wipe Out the Old Political Order?

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
My grandfather (a 1917 Norwegian immigrant) frequently and proudly described himself as a socialist. When I asked him what he meant, he always pointed me to FDR, the New Deal, and his proposed Second Bill of Rights. And here we are again.

‘We’ve Got To Kill and Kill and Kill’

Dan Kaufman The New York Review of Books
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence.

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Layoffs in 2025

Chris Walker Scheer Post
Second-Highest Since 2009 in Potential Sign of Looming Recession
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