Donald Trump, who sat by while so many died, undercut health professionals’ recommendations for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, mocked wearing a mask, placed capitalist profits over the lives of thousands and put forward no serious plan to address the pandemic, is now sick himself. The chickens have come home to . . .
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Seattle Big business neglect of the COVID pandemic continues to bring suffering and death to workers everywhere. Essential workers, like the packinghouse workers at a frozen vegetable plant in Pasco, Wash., are fighting back. Hundreds of other strikes and job actions are also taking place across the country. Twin City . . .
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This statement was released Oct. 5 by the Organizing Committee of the Workers Assembly. Over 1,000 nurses in California will begin a five-day strike on Oct. 7 to protest hospital management’s failure to protect nurses and patients in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. California nurses within the Alameda Health . . .
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Al investigar este artículo, surgió una palabra que suena genial: “mezquindad”. Significa “dado a discutir por nimiedades”. La palabra fue utilizada en un artículo de Barton Gellman en la revista Atlantic de noviembre, “The Election That Could Break America”. Protesta en el Día del Trabajo por contratos justos, 7 de . . .
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Chapel Hill, N.C. During this election season, the struggle for “Defend the Vote” protection is especially sharp in the South, where ballot access has historically been a powerful organizing tool in the Black freedom struggle, including the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A 24-foot ‘Black Lives Matter’ . . .
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