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Staten Island Amazon Workers Begin Union Drive, Drawing Lessons From Bessemer
Amazon workers at the “JFK8” warehouse say they’ve learned hard lessons from Bessemer for their independent union drive.
COVID Profiteering Exposes the Need to Make Marxism Accessible to All
“A People’s Guide to Capitalism” demystifies and makes accessible the fundamental concepts of Marxist economics.
Colleges Are Using COVID as an Excuse for Austerity. Unions Are Pushing Back.
Some union organizers say that recent budget cuts were premature, premeditated, and in some cases, draconian.
Nobel Laureates, Ex-World Leaders Urge Biden to Back WTO Waiver for Vaccines
Waiving World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property rules will speed up global vaccine access.
Canceling Student Debt Will Help Health Care Workers and Advance Racial Justice
Canceling student debt would provide some instant relief for people who could really use it right now.
Hospitals Try to Curb Astronomical Emissions as Pandemic Brings New Challenges
The global health care climate footprint is equivalent to the annual emissions from 514 coal-fired plants.
Fossil Fuel Phase Out Must Begin Where the Industry Has Hurt People the Most
Low-income people and communities of color have borne the environmental brunt of our reliance on polluting fossil fuels.
Resuscitating Normalcy Will Kill Us. What We Need Is a Just Recovery.Â
What kind of world are we trying to imagine into being?
Vaccines Are Still Overwhelmingly Our Best Weapon Against COVID
Even as concerns are raised, we must remember vaccines are by far the best weapon we have in this fight.
Communities Hardest Hit by COVID Are Also Harmed Most by Standardized Testing
Standardized testing under pandemic conditions will only magnify the inequities the tests were designed to perpetuate.