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In recent weeks, the misnamed US Department of Justice has indicted twenty-three activists on serious charges related to their organizing against institutional…
Back in the early 1970s, for a book titled What Is To Be Undone, I looked from deep within the Sixties but at…
I just got back from Labor Notes. Itās the biggest conference of the grassroots, activist wing of the labor movement. Thousands of…
All objective analyses and data point to the Democrats numerically defeating the Republicans on November 3 in at least the House of…
Strong support for Palestine and Palestinian workers was obvious at the recently concluded Labor Notes conference in Chicago. This bi-annual conference of…
Bolivia is at breaking point. For over forty days, the cities of La Paz and El Alto, along with the regions of…
Quick! What do these exciting stories have in common? Educators bringing a new fighting spirit to their unions, from Los Angeles to…
On June 12, 2026, a UK judge at Woolwich Crown Court convicted four Palestine Action activists as terrorists and sentenced them to…
On June 8, the Palestinian Youth Movementās Mask off Maersk Campaign published a report with Oxfam Denmark demonstrating that Maersk has continued…
Gardeners have a saying about newly planted perennials: āThey sleep, then creep, then leap.ā Last summer I pulled a lot of grass…
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