Global Left Midweek – July 16, 2025
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World in transition
World in transition
World in transition
How Taxes Drive Inequality
Inequality.org
Stock buybacks. Sales taxes. Loopholes. ... Let's count the ways that tax reforms to benefit the rich and big corporations have exacerbated inequality and drained resources from funding vital public programs.
labor
Jobs at the Port of Los Angeles Are Down by Half
Los Angeles Times
Trump's Tariffs cause job loss
The Legal Brief That Torched Trump’s Tariff Power Grab
The New York Times
A coalition including leading figures on the right filed a fiery brief with the court that rebuffed most Trump tariffs. The tariffs are "taxation by proclamation" and do violence to the Constitution, the brief argues. One judge cited it eight times.
Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History
Labor and Working-Class History Association
Labor historians should be particularly concerned about Trump’s misuse of tariff history because his tariff policies remain popular with many working-class voters and labor union leaders despite the recent economic meltdown they have caused.
labor
Tariffs Could Wreck What Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Have Gained
The New York Times
In Bangladesh, the factories that make clothing for export had remade themselves and raised national incomes along the way. They never bargained for a trade war.
Waiting for the Supply Shock
The American Prospect
It’s coming, and we know approximately when. The economy contracted by 0.3 percent, and imports have contracted. Tariffs of 145 percent on China are a trade embargo for many sectors. China’s retaliatory measures are an embargo in the other direction.
How the President Is Misusing Emergency Powers To Impose Worldwide Tariffs
Brennan Center for Justice
Concocting an emergency to advance economic and foreign policy goals is an abuse of power.
labor
Unifor, UAW Now at Odds Over Trump’s Auto Tariffs As Industry Tensions Rise
Detroit Free Press
“They’re all part of the same industry. It’s not necessarily who is taking jobs from whom, it's the same industry. No one is stealing from anybody. There’s shrinkage on both sides of the border.”
Friday Nite Videos | April 25, 2025
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Who's Breaking Immigration Law: Not Who You Think. Trump & Tariffs | John Oliver. Amateurs Solve a Famous Computer Science Problem. Trump Administration Arrests Judge. 20 Lessons on Tyranny | Read by John Lithgow.
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