Despite overwhelming U.S. opposition to President Trump’s ongoing attacks on migrant workers, on Aug. 21 he announced plans to detain migrant children and families for even longer than they are incarcerated at present, using a new “indefinite detention” rule. Furthermore, plans are for detention centers to be run exclusively by . . .
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The death this August of right-wing multibillionaire David Koch immediately unleashed a spate of extensive obituaries in the corporate media. These mini-biographies describe him and his brother Charles Koch as “philanthropists” and financiers of right-wing ideas and political movements. The media attention on David Koch’s death brings to mind a . . .
Continue reading Koch’s poisonous gifts at Workers.org
One week after the now infamous Aug. 13 Philadelphia police assault and 7.5-hour siege of the African-American Tioga neighborhood, new facts are coming to light. Maurice Hill, whom police targeted and now allege shot six officers, had no outstanding charges, nor was his address on the police warrant. The alleged . . .
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Workers have occupied the Harland and Wolff shipyard in the north of Ireland since July 29. They are fighting to save the last 132 jobs at the 166-year-old Belfast company, which at its peak during World War I employed 35,000 and is most famous for building the Titanic. The workers . . .
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Lill is a resident of Harlan County, Ky., and a member of a transgender anarchist support group (blackjewelminersblockade on Instagram) assisting coal miners locked out by the Blackjewel coal company. “Most of us are trans and the miners think that’s really cool,” she said. Blackjewel miners and supporters watch a . . .
Continue reading Eastern Kentucky trans people support locked out Harlan County coal miners at Workers.org
The longer that U.S. stock markets continue to rise, the more nervous become the investors and all the financial analysts. On Friday, Aug. 23, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by over 600 points after proclamations by Donald Trump that his trade war with China would intensify, putting higher tariffs . . .
Continue reading Trump, China and the stock markets at Workers.org
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