The great Jamaica-born artist, Civil Rights activist and internationalist, Harry Belafonte, died from congestive heart failure at age 96 on April 25, 2023. Despite becoming the first Black person to win a TV Emmy award in 1960, a Broadway Tony award in 1954 and selling millions of recordings, Belafonte experienced . . .
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El Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, también conocido como Primero de Mayo, nos recuerda una anécdota sobre la Revolución Rusa de 1917 en relación con la clase obrera. En aquel momento, el Partido Bolchevique, formado y dirigido por V.I. Lenin, estaba en proceso de tomar el poder. Un intelectual antibolchevique . . .
Continue reading Lecciones de Lenin para el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores at Workers.org
This year May Day in Cleveland focused on the struggle for housing, featuring representatives from the United Residents of Euclid Beach. UREB is a multinational organization of homeowners and tenants who live in the Euclid Beach Mobile Home Park that abuts Euclid Beach park to the west and Wildwood park . . .
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In March 2020, the federal government froze payments on all federal student loans. In August 2022, the Biden Administration forgave a portion of federal student debt. Borrowers who qualified each got $10,000 of their debt forgiven, while Federal Pell Grant Program recipients got $20,000 of their debt written off. Although . . .
Continue reading As COVID emergency ends., workers hit with bigger student loan debt at Workers.org
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