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We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement

Jenny Brown Jacobin
UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.

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Unleashing Retirement Scammers

Bryce Covert In These Times
The Trump administration may reopen a loophole that allows investment brokers to enrich themselves at clients’ expense.

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Work Therapy or Wage Theft?

Amy L. Eisenstein On Labor
If Salvation Army residential work employees earned at least a minimum wage and overtime pay, program participants would be properly compensated for their labor rather than exploited, overworked, and underpaid.

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Gaza Has Sparked Italy’s Biggest Protests in Years

Jacopo Custodi Jacobin
Today’s general strike in Italy paralyzed transport and brought two million people into the streets. Even after years of setbacks for organized labor, it staged a historic protest in solidarity with Palestine.

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Labor Relations in Germany – Three Snapshots

Thomas Klikauer Z Network
German labor relations aren’t dead. Workers are fighting – in courts, in meat factories, in airports. These workers will not surrender. Whatever dirty tactics management throws at them – they stand firm.
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