Interviews with Starbucks union employees by Sudip Bhattacharya describe growing solidarity, company retaliation, and some bad-faith meetings with CEO Howard Schultz.
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Interviews with Starbucks union employees by Sudip Bhattacharya describe growing solidarity, company retaliation, and some bad-faith meetings with CEO Howard Schultz.
Read MoreSudip 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.
Read MoreElection 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.
Read MoreShane Burley reflects on the Capitol insurrection and the federal investigation’s reliance on the public.
Read More“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.
Read MoreMcKenna 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreLobato 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.
Read MoreC.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.
Read MoreProtean publisher Steven Monacelli managed to infiltrate a Dallas QAnon convention. He found that not only did it resemble a particularly warped evangelical religious revival, but also that the movement continues to come alarmingly close to actual power.
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