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Starbucks organizers group photo.

Organizing Starbucks: Face Time with the Billionaire Boss

By: Protean Magazine May 9, 2022May 9, 2022
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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.

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ALU members rally in front of Amazon.

Collective Ambitions: Amazon Workers on Their Union Fight

By: Protean Magazine March 9, 2022March 9, 2022
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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.

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Contesting the Right-Wing Power Grab

By: Protean Magazine January 26, 2022January 26, 2022
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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.

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The Capitol Rioters and Punitive State Power

By: Protean Magazine January 6, 2022January 6, 2022
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Shane Burley reflects on the Capitol insurrection and the federal investigation’s reliance on the public.

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Dead Man Running

By: Protean Magazine December 17, 2021December 24, 2021
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“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.

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Richie Floyd is Florida’s First Open Socialist Elected in a Century

By: Protean Magazine November 5, 2021November 5, 2021
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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.

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Remote Work Incentives Are a Scam

By: Protean Magazine October 12, 2021October 12, 2021
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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.

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How Brazil Legalized the Annihilation of the Amazon Rainforest

By: Protean Magazine July 23, 2021July 23, 2021
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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.

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Gilded Rust: The Making of Buffalo’s Socialist Upset

By: Protean Magazine June 23, 2021June 24, 2021
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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.

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The “Qonvention” Was Exorbitant and Depraved

By: Protean Magazine June 7, 2021September 8, 2022
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Protean 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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