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Revolutionary Grounds

Jana Silverman The Forge
The main thing that I would say to comrades is: don't just do the propaganda. Don't just be in the campus group. Go and meet workers in your local high street and unionize them. That is the best thing a socialist could do: help to organize the working class where we find them today and fight the issues that they're facing today.

Friday Nite Videos | October 22, 2021

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Multilingual Disinformation | John Oliver. Lorde | Te Ao Mārama / Solar Power. Jordan Klepper at Trump Rally in Des Moines. QAnon Conspiracies Are Tearing Through Evangelical America. India Walton and Chokwe Antar Lumumba | In Conversation.

Lorde | Te Ao Mārama / Solar Power

New Zealand singer/songwriter Lorde has released a 5-song set from her new album in the Maori language. “I am richer for having sung in te reo” she says. 

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An Idea Whose Time has Come: the Four-Day Workweek

Leah Hancock The Baltimore Sun
Four-day workweek pilots are emerging across the globe, with some companies now shifting from the pilot phase to implementing the policy permanently. Beyond the U.S., political leaders are voicing support for the concept.

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How to End ‘Women’s Work’

Anna Louie Sussman The New York Times
A pair up gloves with skill of a man's job on one side and the pay;  and a woman's job on the other. What so many of today's most underpaid and essential workers have in common is simply that they are women. Are we willing to re-examine the assumptions embedded in what we have been told are “free markets” for labor?
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