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Sudip Bhattacharya, a researcher at Rutgers, reports on the recent labor action there. In the first strike of Rutgers’s 257 years, new solidarities emerged among not only precarious adjunct faculty and grad students, but also undergraduates, university employees, and beyond.

Interviews with Starbucks union employees by Sudip Bhattacharya describe growing solidarity, company retaliation, and some bad-faith meetings with CEO Howard Schultz.

Sudip Bhattacharya’s interviews with workers at an Amazon facility in Staten Island reveal ruthless conditions, management’s overwhelming power—and how, despite that, they’ve found solidarity in organizing the Amazon Labor Union.

Election integrity is continually eroding as Republicans lock in systematic disenfranchisement, unimpeded by corrupt and ineffectual corporate Democrats. Only labor mobilization, writes C.M. Lewis, can rise to the scale of the threat.

Shane Burley reflects on the Capitol insurrection and the federal investigation’s reliance on the public.

“If anything, Levon Manzie seemed to campaign harder after he died.” Ryan Zickgraf reports from Mobile, AL with the story of an attempt to elect a deceased councilman: a racist plot to make the largely Black city majority-white.

McKenna Schueler reports from St. Petersburg, FL, where socialist and DSA member Richie Floyd has been elected to City Council—a heartening win for a campaign that emphasized the needs of working people.

In West Virginia and elsewhere, governments are offering up grants and tax incentives to attract well-paid remote workers and mitigate “rural brain drain.” This, writes Jake Maynard, is nothing more than another elitist trickle-down charade.

Lobato Felizola reports from Brazil: Bolsonaro and agribusiness are pushing bills in Congress to further legalize the destruction of the Amazon. This system of fraud and rampant exploitation is incentivized by U.S. corporations.

C.M. Lewis examines the context and significance of India Walton’s historic win in the Buffalo mayoral primary. Years of neoliberal “revitalization” and naked cash grabs have set the stage for a spectacular socialist reprisal.