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Pro-Palestinian worker-led protests against Israel's Gaza invasion erupted across Italy on Monday.

The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike.

Italy’s small textile firms have long been considered nearly impossible to organize. But a recent wave of successful simultaneous strikes is expanding possibilities for Italy’s hyperexploited immigrant workforce.

The ferocity & scale of onrushing authoritarianism demand that we think beyond binaries. We can’t counterpose electoral & strike action: we need to do both. And we can’t decisively defeat MAGA without effectively challenging the neoliberal model.

AFSCME District Council 33, which represents thousands of city workers, including trash collectors and police dispatchers, is walking off the job after negotiations didn't end in a deal. The union last went on a strike in 1986.

The riskiest course is to stay the course.

Following recent layoffs, an Alamo Drafthouse in Colorado has authorized a strike.