In a new survey, the overwhelming majority of railroad workers say they reject a proposed settlement that fails to improve their draconian working conditions. They could strike as soon as September 16. A national rail shutdown, which has not occurred since the early...
US life expectancy has declined for the second year in a row — a historic drop that hasn’t been seen for a century. We can thank our country’s threadbare welfare state and antidemocratic political institutions. Nurses wheel out the body of a recently deceased patient...
For decades, Canada has been a consistent bulwark against the success of popular forces in Haiti. As Haiti’s capital is engulfed in protests and violence, Canadian calls for international intervention to “help” sound ominous, not reassuring. Haitian police patrol...
Workers have been striking throughout the summer to demand an end to Britain’s cost-of-living crisis that doesn't come at their expense. Expect more such strikes in the very near future. Striking refuse and recycling workers organized by the Unite trade union protest...
Last week, on the same day California governor Gavin Newsom announced he would not sign a bill that makes it easier for farmworkers in his state to unionize, the wine company Newsom co-owns purchased a 129-acre vineyard in Napa for $14.5 million. The news came just as...
The Right broke Ontario’s health care system. Now they can’t wait to replace it with a parallel, two-tiered system that benefits the rich. Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is using the pandemic as a chance to further privatize health care in Ontario,...
The city of Oakland’s longest rent strike has ended in victory for tenants. They didn’t just win necessary repairs or rent control; they decommodified their housing, getting profit-motivated landlords out of the picture altogether. Tenants in Oakland, California,...
The US military has a long history of recruiting poor people by offering benefits like free college. With Joe Biden’s partial student debt forgiveness, GOP war hawks are fretting that the military won’t be able to prey on desperate young Americans anymore. US Army...
The new TV show A League of Their Own, about the true story of the WWII-era women’s baseball league, captures its racial segregation — with a central character based on trailblazing black women players who were forced to play in the male Negro Leagues instead. Chanté...
Over 80 percent of the Chilean electorate voted to replace the country’s dictatorship-era constitution. As Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to finally vote on the new constitution, the Right is stoking fears to prevent its passage. Chileans against the approval of...
For three decades, revisionists have systematically turned Italy’s discussion of World War II away from Fascist crimes and toward the Italians killed by anti-fascist partisans. The effect has been to trivialize the Fascist past — and legitimize a new far right....
Aubrey Plaza’s title character in Emily the Criminal is trapped by crushing student loan debt, a punitive criminal justice system, and low wages. She, like so many other Americans, feels like she’s out of legitimate options — because she is. Still of Aubrey Plaza as...