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Tidbits – Mar. 23, 2023 – Reader Comments: Bank Failures, Deregulation and Fed-Raising Interest Rates; He Illegal Invasion of Iraq; Slash Pentagon Budget; Jim Crow South; New Day for UAW; Letters From Langston; US Policy and Taiwan; How Workers Win

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Reader Comments: Bank Failures, Deregulation and Fed-Raising Interest Rates; Illegal Invasion of Iraq; Slash Pentagon Budget; Jim Crow South; New Day for UAW; Light Communication; Letters From Langston; US Policy and Taiwan; How Workers Win

Friday Nite Videos | March 17, 2023

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House MD Tries to Cure the 'Woke Mind Virus'. No Woman No Cry | Playing for Change. The Origins of the Death Penalty. These Leaked Emails Reveal the Coordinated Attack on Trans Health Care. Interview with Larry Summers | Jon Stewart.

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Inflation and Your Next Union Contract

Samir Sonti Labor Notes
Profits are booming and corporations are raising prices, but instead of regulating corporations, the Federal Reserve is using its powers to create a recession and raise unemployment. Workers will suffer.

To Fight Inflation, the Fed Is Declaring a War on Workers

Julia Rock Jacobin
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell plans to address sky-high inflation by hiking interest rates — acknowledging that doing so will suppress wages and worker power. It's a response that will force workers to bear the brunt of the inflation crisis.
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