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Good Guys Don’t Finish Last—If They Have a Militant Union Behind Them
You know the old saying, “Good guys finish last.” Even at Christmas. But whoever said that didn’t have a fighting labor union behind them well prepared to work a little holiday magic on behalf of the...
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The Right Wants to Divide Rural People and the Working Class. Here’s How We...
I have been a grassroots community organizer in the South for nearly 20 years, a region with a long legacy of working-class movements. As the director of the Appalachia People’s Union, a project of...
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Against Azerbaijan’s Authoritarianism, COP29 and Green Capitalism, Wars, and...
Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement—C-FAM is an emerging movement of feminist and anti-war/peace activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Unified in our defiance, C-FAM originated from a...
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Reading the Present as History
Set in a hauntingly plausible future, where Israel has marked a century of Palestinian occupation, Thaer Husien’s debut novel, Beside the Sickle Moon: A Palestinian Story, opens with a poetic,...
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Michigan Nurses Win the Largest Union Election in Years
It is the largest successful union election in recent memory: 10,000 nurses will be joining the Teamsters. They work for hospital conglomerate Corewell Health at eight hospitals and one outpatient...
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Trump, Trumpism, and the Polycrisis
“Polycrisis” is a word that has recently come into use to characterize the way crises in many different spheres – ranging from geopolitics and economics to climate and pandemic – are aggravating each...
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Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
In thousands of ways, we are taught to accept the world we live in as the only possible one, but thousands of other ways of organizing homes, cities, schools, societies, economies, and cosmologies have...
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Trump’s First Big Defeat
“I took down your golden boy in a week.” -Mitch McConnell, on Matt Gaetz failed nomination After learning yesterday about Matt Gaetz withdrawing from consideration to be US Attorney General, I...
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How Abortion Rights Groups Are Preparing for the Next Trump Administration
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory has energized anti-abortion groups, even as abortion rights organizers notched victories on Election Day. Now, reproductive rights groups are preparing for legal...
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Elections and Popular Struggle in Uruguay
Uruguay is undergoing political dynamics similar to those at work in the rest of Latin America: governments swing from one party to another and there has been a general and increasingly polarized shift...
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Kentucky Battery Plant Workers Launch Union Drive with UAW
A majority of the 1,000 auto workers at the car battery park Blue Oval in Glendale, Kentucky, have signed union cards to join the United Auto Workers. The battery park, a joint venture between Ford and...
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COP29 Ignores Militarism, Putting Meaningful Climate Deal Out of Reach
The 2024 UN climate change conference, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, is now nearing its end and reports are that talks are deadlocked. The two biggest elephants in the room are militarism and...
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ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, six months after chief prosecutor Karim...
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Mourn and Organize
Trump’s victory is a serious loss for most people in the United States and globally. I disagreed before the election and now, that it didn’t matter who won the Presidential election. Let us mourn and...
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Refuse, Resist, Contest
Preface The results of the November elections were devastating. Many of us are still reeling, even as we try to make sense of the changed conjuncture. What explains Trump’s victory? How has the balance...
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The EU Cynically Pushes Lithium Mining in Serbia
“We must and will stay the course on the goals set out in the European Green Deal. The climate crisis is accelerating at pace. And there is an equally urgent need to decarbonize and industrialize our...
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Trump and China–The Rocky Road Ahead
Cooperation or Competition? On November 7, 2024, Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to President-elect Trump that said: “A stable, healthy, sustainably developing China-US relationship fits with...
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What’s On Deck for Climate Change?
Dr. Peter Carter, an Expert Reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has new information about the status of climate change that meets the IPCC 6th Assessment worst-case...
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G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas
The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically, trying to put on a brave ‘holiday in the sun’ face. There...
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Finland’s Government Is Robin Hood in Reverse
In Finland, the liberal-conservative National Coalition Party and the far-right Finns Party, whose members together add up to nearly 90 percent of the current government, have united around a shared...
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