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How Billionaire Trump Is Missing Greener Pastures
Instead of wallowing in nostalgia for coal mining, the GOP presidential candidate should be betting on renewable energy futures.
Justice for Janitors: The Fight for 15 Shutdown in Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Kimco janitors, students and teachers took the streets during the back-to-school season when Kohl's makes 15 percent of its $673 million in annual profits.
Graduate Students Are Workers: The Decades-Long Fight for Graduate Unions, and the Path Forward
The NLRB's ruling that teaching and research assistants at Columbia University are workers and are legally protected is historic.
Social Reproduction: Between the Wage and the Commons
Silvia Federici discusses the struggles over social reproduction, gender, work and the commons.
The Political Significance of Being Inconvenienced
Striving for justice in the long term is worth the upset in the present, worth the mess and the noise of trying to figure it all out.
Embracing the Alt-Right: New Trump Campaign Chief “Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists”
Last week, Donald Trump once again upended his campaign team and named Stephen Bannon, the head of Breitbart Media, to be his campaign chief.
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Working-Class Militancy in the Global South
A profound movement is emerging among workers in developing countries, demanding radical action on grievances outside the system of established unions.
How Labor’s Decline Opened Door to Billionaire Trump as “Savior” of US Workers
How has Trump managed to attract substantial support among a demographic that makes up the base of industrial unionism?
Economic Update: The System Exposed
This episode discusses the economics of the Olympics, and more.
Does Offshore Fracking Put Endangered Species at Risk?
Fracking off the Santa Barbara coast was approved without a biological report on protecting endangered species.