Category: Article
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Iraq’s October revolution
Nasrin summarizes an important new book that maps the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia.
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Amazon workers and the southern key?
Sumona Gupta provides an important introduction to the background behind the current efforts to unionize Amazon workers in Alabama.
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Where is UPS going?
Joe Allen calls attention to the ongoing restructuring at UPS, evidenced by the recent sale of UPS Freight, and why this sale and the recent history of UPS restructuring should be red flags for rank and file Teamsters and the union as a whole.
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Defund the police
Haley Pessin looks at the advances and setbacks of the defund movement and how the Left fits into these efforts
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Save our school
Paul Fleckenstein reports on the struggle to oppose the budget cuts and restructuring at the University of Vermont.
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Writings on the “putsch”
Aaron Amaral and Scott McLemee provide a digest, with links and excerpts, of some of the best of the recent commentary about the events at the U.S. capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Understanding unions in the United States
Andrew Sernatinger describes the basics of labor law and obstacles for labor organizing in the United States.
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Meet the new boss
Eric Maroney and Jay Poppa, provide a background to Biden’s nominee for Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, and insight into what education activists might expect over his administration.
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How rock became white – part 3
In the final of a three-part series, Geoff Bailey, looks at the racial politics of rock and roll in the creation of “Classic Rock”, and how they inform a critique of the concept of cultural appropriation.
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A revolution in permanence
Nasrin summarizes an important new book that maps the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia.