May Day — International Workers Day — commemorates the 1886 struggle in Chicago for the eight-hour day. Despite its radical origins in U.S. labor history, May Day has to a large extent been supplanted by moderate events on Labor Day in September, a holiday designed to dampen class struggle and . . .
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By any account the situation in Haiti is desperate. What the U.S. has done to Haiti in the past, as well as its current maneuvers, has devastated the country. Most people in Haiti have no access to clean water, which is essential to controlling cholera. While the disease had . . .
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If French President Emmanuel Macron was hoping workers would lose morale and militancy, once he had maneuvered to get his new anti-worker pension system declared official law, he lost out. Millions of workers continued to protest and strike and defy France’s cops, who grow more vicious and aggressive with each . . .
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Frustrated by the Oakland Unified School District’s refusal to bargain a new contract, more than 3,000 teachers and other educators, all members of the Oakland Education Association, went on strike on May 4. OEA teachers and supporters kick off a march on the second day of the strike. (Credit: Craig . . .
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