Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes and other forms of collective action. Class struggle isn't a modern...
Rosa María Payá has joined the Organization of American States’ human rights commission, despite backing US sanctions on Cuba, cozying up to far-right leaders, and lacking basic knowledge of international law. Rosa María Payá testifies during a Senate Foreign...
Campus opposition to the Israeli military assault on Gaza, since the fall of 2023, has been quite triggering for veterans of student organizing against the Vietnam War in the 1960s. In progressive media outlets, now old “New Leftists” have mainly weighed in with...
NATO’s European members have agreed to massively hike defense spending. The move conforms to Donald Trump’s demands — but also reflects a German-led bid to revive its economy through massive investment in the military. A soldier stands next to a Panther KF51 main...
Across the US, Amazon delivery stations are being outfitted with robots, allowing the company to hire fewer workers and speed up work for those that remain. An Amazon employee works to fulfill orders at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024, in Orlando,...
Brad Pitt’s F1 is the big, dumb racing movie America’s been waiting for. If you can stomach the sports movie clichés, you’ll probably have a good time. Brad Pitt and Damson Idris in F1. (Apple Original Films / Warner Bros. Pictures) Released under the dignified...
For 32 years, the same faction has held leadership in the Victorian branch of Australia’s public service union. The rank-and-file reform group A Voice for Members is now mounting a challenge, saying it wants a more democratic and militant union. A Voice for Members is...
AFSCME District Council 33 represents the blue-collar city workers who make Philadelphia run. After sacrificing through the pandemic and years of bruising inflation, they say they’re on strike so they can afford to live in the city they serve. Blue-collar workers in...
To build Colossus, Elon Musk’s pollution-spewing AI data center in Memphis, Musk used gag orders to silence city officials and bypass input from residents, whose asthma rates have since soared. Now Musk wants to take this strategy national. To build his new AI data...
Zohran Mamdani’s win wasn’t the only race last week or even in the past few years where pro-Israel money and arguments failed. The Israel lobby’s power rests on appearing more fearsome than it actually is. Michael Bloomberg speaking during the American Israel Public...
Donald Trump recently commandeered California’s National Guard to repress anti-ICE protests in LA. The National Guard has a long history of being deployed to break up protests and strikes, including violent repression of strikes by immigrant workers. National Guard...
As Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest in 1956, a wave of refugees spread across the continent seeking safety. One of those was Suzanna, who arrived in Britain in 1956 “after she had lied to the Austrian police about her age and name.” She later becomes Susanna —...