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Scrap the cap – Protect and expand Social Security Call, write, or visit your U.S. Senators and Representative to demand they protect and expand Social Security, an earned benefit with broad public support, that 71 million seniors and those with disabilities depend upon. Stop the Wall St. power grab to privatize Social Security. Vote NO […]
BERLIN—For the first time since German reunification and the fall of the Wall in 1990, a candidate from the Left Party (“Die Linke”) may be elected mayor of Berlin. Elif Eralp, 45, who heads the Left Party’s list for the Sept. 20 Berlin municipal elections, is the daughter of a family of socialist Turkish immigrants […]
Delegates from around the world convened in Havana earlier this month for the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, hosted by the Communist Party of Cuba during one of the hardest stretches the island has faced in years. Just days before delegates arrived, Cuba’s national power grid collapsed for the third time in […]
WASHINGTON —Voting rights, and even more importantly, defending the right to vote, will be the key cause of a new March on Washington, scheduled for Aug.28. The march is expected to draw thousands from a broad coalition of groups, including the National Action Network, labor unions including the Service Employees, the Government Employees, the United […]
At some point, my reporting colleagues and I began referring to them as the “100% schools.” We were following the money that flows from states’ public coffers into private schools through vouchers when we noticed a subset of educational facilities where tax dollars cover all or a big part of the tuition for every student. […]
Freedom Summer 2026 is a coalition of organizations that have come together to preserve the right to vote and democracy itself in the U.S. It includes almost every group that’s engaged right now in the fight—labor unions and their allies, faith groups, community organizations, political parties, lawmakers, and so many others. The movement launched on […]
PHOENIX—A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has knocked an anti-union referendum, which if passed would have virtually put public sector unions out of business, off Arizona ballots this fall. The measure, pushed by state Republican legislative leaders, was so broad that it violates the state constitutional requirement that a ballot initiative stick to one topic, […]
LOS ANGELES—When the Post Office opened in the 18th century, it became clear that public control of mail delivery was a key to developing democracy in the new United States of America. More than two centuries later, the fight to save mail delivery from privatization and to save the United States Postal Service itself is […]
On July 16, China changed the face of combat sports forever with the launch of the Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend, or URKL, the world’s first robot fighting tournament. In Shenzhen, Guangdong province, machines powered by servos, steel armor, and combat algorithms squared off in bouts that quickly went viral. Footage of the robots Matador and […]
At the end of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a reformed Ebenezer Scrooge leans out his window and asks a passing child, “You boy, what day is this?” These days, working people in Canada are likely to lean out their windows each morning and ask, “You there, is there a trade deal with the U.S. or […]
Only one-third of all speaking characters across the top movies of 2025 were girls or women— a figure that hasn’t meaningfully moved in two decades. That’s the headline finding from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s annual report tracking diverse representation on screen and behind the camera for Hollywood’s highest-grossing films. […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon won an upset victory over Alexander Vindman in the Aug. 18 U.S. Senate Democratic primary in Florida. Vindman had a 16-to-1 funding advantage over Nixon and the backing of the Democratic Party’s national leadership but still lost by a wide margin, 56% to 44%. Nixon, a state representative from Jacksonville […]
CHICAGO —If there’s one description that applies to Teamsters locals in the union town of Chicago and its suburbs, it’s that there’s always activism occurring. Consider three developments just since August 6: Members of Teamsters Local 179, frustrated at Ikea bosses’ refusal to come to a first contract for their members at its warehouse in […]
PORTLAND, Ore.—Homeless support workers at Do Good Multnomah in Portland won a union in August 2024, but two years later, they still don’t have a contract. Getting organized was a big achievement, but winning a collective bargaining agreement has turned out to be another matter for Do Good Multnomah Workers United (DGWU / AFSCME 1790). […]
A single union local in California allowed its hall to be used for a public meeting where U.S. policy toward Cuba was discussed this past spring. That shouldn’t have been a big deal, but in the eyes of Senate Republicans, it’s enough to merit a Congressional investigation. The chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, […]
July was the hottest month on record in the United States, with three heat domes — slow-moving, high-pressure systems that trap heat and humidity in place — afflicting large swaths of the country. The most recent of these contributed to an 18-day extreme heat warning in Phoenix, Arizona, the state’s second-longest stretch on record. Yet, in the face of these extreme heat […]
