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** Solidarity accelerates with Amazon workers’ union drive in Alabama ([link removed] )
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Solidarity with the struggle of 5,800+ Amazon workers in Bessemer, Ala., to unionize continues to grow, following the heroic lead of this majority-Black workforce fighting for justice on the job. Walking the Powder Plant Road approach to the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala.,where a union drive is underway by the . . .
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** Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bessemer, prisons – Class struggle then and now ([link removed] )
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Fifty years after the end of the U.S. Civil War — and during the height of horrific lynchings of Black people in the Deep South by KKK terror — the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded in 1915 by Dr. Carter Woodson and Rev. Jesse . . .
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** Incarcerated workers say: ‘Solidarity with Amazon workers!’ ([link removed] )
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The following letters from incarcerated workers in the Pennsylvania prison system were sent by email on Feb. 13 and 15 to Joe Piette, a member of the Prisoner Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. From SCI Frackville As I’ve advised you before, anything that I can do . . .
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** Morgan Lewis lawyers – high-paid union-busting thugs ([link removed] )
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bosses hired Pinkerton Agency goon squads to infiltrate unions, break strikes and intimidate workers who were trying to organize. Today’s hired union-busting thugs are more likely to be high-paid lawyers tasked with turning labor laws — intended to protect workers — . . .
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** From electric vehicles to corruption — UAW faces huge challenges ([link removed] )
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General Motors CEO Mary Barra raised more than a few eyebrows Jan. 28, when she announced GM would have an all-electric product line by 2035. This planned phaseout of fossil fuel-burning vehicles represents a serious departure from four years ago, when GM joined the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers in calling . . .
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** Haiti: The masses are still in the streets ([link removed] )
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A twitter post showed hundreds of students taking to the streets of Delmas, near Port-au-Prince, on the morning of Feb. 13, some carrying pictures of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. They were demanding President Jovenel Moïse, a U.S. puppet, leave office, especially since his term was over Feb. 7. A much . . .
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** Impeachment lessons ([link removed] )
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Everyone expected the Senate vote to acquit the ex-president, since 17 Republicans were needed to vote to convict along with 50 Democrats. Only seven did so. The trial opened a window on the internal conflict between the anti-Trump capitalist establishment and the pro-fascist wing of the ruling class. The impeachment . . .
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** Karen Lewis, 1953-2021: Lessons from a teacher, leader and courageous fighter ([link removed] )
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The global working-class, Black liberation and labor movements lost a courageous fighter when Karen Lewis — former president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), who famously led a militant, seven-day strike in 2012 — passed away Feb. 7 after a long battle with cancer. Karen Lewis. Credit: John W. Iwanski . . .
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** Oregon care workers dare to strike ([link removed] )
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In Springfield, Ore., essential health workers at The Rawlin at Riverbend Memory Care facility have set a Feb. 16 strike deadline to demand union recognition in order to improve staffing, training and turnover — and save residents’ lives. They are leading the way for workers throughout their community and the . . .
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** Philadelphians demand COVID safety ([link removed] )
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Several dozen teachers, parents and community activists protested outside Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenny’s home on Feb 12. They were demanding city officials not reopen schools for in-person teaching — until all teachers are vaccinated and all schools are properly ventilated. Educators continue to teach virtually until an arbitrator rules on . . .
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