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No Matter Who Wins For President, Our Work Has Just Begun
Those of us who “enjoy” a particular type of pain, the kind reminiscent of warm needles being inserted into your cornea, have spent the past few months trying to understand the strategy of the...
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Who Pays for Climate Damages? Making Big Oil Pay Is Most Popular Policy...
Making the oil and gas industry pay for climate impacts is ranked as the favoured policy choice, according to a survey conducted in eight countries across five continents by strategic insight agency,...
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‘Tis the Season to Organize Amazon
I recently toured an Amazon fulfillment center; anyone can do it. From what I can tell, they mostly give tours of their robotics sortable facilities, the newer ones dominated by Kiva robots and other...
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Want More Equality of Opportunity and Social Justice? Copy Massachusetts’...
This past summer, the Governor of Massachusetts Maura Healey signed a budget bill that guaranteed universal access to in-state community colleges. No matter age or socioeconomic background,...
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Upcoming Election In Puerto Rico: Big Gains Expected for Socialists and...
In recent years Puerto Rico was put into the spotlight by the devastation brought by hurricane Maria and the horrendously inadequate federal response, as well as the successful 2019 protests which...
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Uganda: It’s time for Total and CNOOC to Clean Up and Go Home
From a distance, anti-oil protests in Uganda might not make much sense. After all, the country has discovered “black gold.” Big multinationals with world class expertise and global clout have offered...
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Israel Bombs Polio Vaccination Center in Area Marked for Humanitarian Pause
As Israel continues to block lifesaving humanitarian aid from entering northern Gaza, humanitarian organizations are describing its siege as “apocalyptic” and warning of mass Palestinian starvation and...
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Israel’s Relations With the UN Hit a New Low With UNRWA Ban
Israel’s relationship with the United Nations has historically been strained, but over the past year, tensions have reached new levels. On October 28, the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) passed a law...
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Trump Would Be an “Extinction-Level Event” For the Planet, Turbocharging...
UC Berkeley scholars warn that “With plans to expand the production of fossil fuels, curtail environmental regulations, dismantle key climate monitoring agencies and even undermine the Endangered...
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DSA Statement On the Presidential Race
Workers deserve more than Trump vs. Harris. Every four years, working people are faced with the same “choices” for president: a conservative Democrat, a deranged Republican, and a gallery of...
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‘Harris Voters for Human Rights’ Work to Defeat Trump—and Fight for an End to...
Warning that a victory for Republican nominee Donald Trump would bring even greater catastrophe for Palestinians, a coalition of progressive organizers and activists is vowing to both back Democratic...
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Disaffected Voters May Want to Consider What Decades of Right-Wing Minority...
It is widely believed, including by experts, that this presidential election could be one of the most important in U.S. history. And polling data still marks it as too close to call. Various groups of...
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Die Linke Can’t Just Rely on Middle-Class Progressives
A new study explains an uncomfortable truth for Germany’s Die Linke: the left-wing party’s base is today highly educated and middle-income. While the party’s new leadership promises to rebuild...
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Who Owns America’s Debt? – Bob Pollin Pt. 2/2
In part 2, Bob Pollin, economist and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), lays out policies to increase workers’ wages and bargaining power and bring down the price of food...
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Inflation Control and Curbing Workers’ Power in the Neoliberal Era – Bob...
Following the inflationary period of the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation is largely down and currently at 2.1% in the U.S. Bob Pollin, economist, and Co-Director at the Political Economy Research...
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A Black Woman Tory Leader? Sure, As Long As She’s Batshit Right-Wing
Kemi Badenoch exemplifies the decades-long tradition in the UK of ‘pulling up the ladder’, practiced by class-ascendant immigrants on the right of the political spectrum Kemi Badenoch is the death’s...
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Whoever Wins, the Labor Movement Must Break Free From the Two Capitalist Parties
On the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC), the party’s attempts to appeal to organized labor were on full display. The presidents of AFSCME, SEIU, LiUNA, IBEW, CWA, and the...
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America at the End of Its Tether
With every tick, the election clock feels like dread closing in on Americans. A recent Forbes Health survey shows that over 60% of participants consider their mental health to be under siege, grappling...
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Outside Spending On 2024 Elections Shatters Records, Fueled By Billion-Dollar...
Outside spending on 2024 federal elections has hit a record $4.5 billion, with more than half of that spending coming from groups that do not fully disclose the source of their funding. Independent...
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7 States Vote to Protect Abortion Rights in Busy Year for Ballot Initiatives
While Democratic candidates suffered major losses in this year’s U.S. elections, elsewhere on the ballot voters supported liberal positions. In the wake of tightening federal and state restrictions on...
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