As the biggest (numerically) U.S. strike in over a decade enters its fourth week, General Motors workers are showing no signs of giving in. While they would like to see some resolution and return to work, they don’t want to go back in with a bad contract. The 49,000 United . . .
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On the Rio San Juan in the Sierra del Rosario biosphere in Cuba. The following is a slightly edited talk given at a Workers World Party forum on Oct. 3 in New York City. Hedgecoke participated in the 50th Venceremos Brigade this summer. We meet on stolen land. This is . . .
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Disability rights leaders Terrea Mitchell (left) and Mary Kaessinger oppose racist policing and demand money for elevators, not cops, at a Brooklyn subway station protest, Oct. 3. On Oct. 3, leaders in the disability rights movement led the latest in a growing movement of underground subway actions against the MTA’s . . .
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The Fair Pay to Play Act was signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsome on Sept. 30. Newsome signed the SB206 on “The Uninterrupted,” a multimedia platform show hosted and produced by LeBron James, the superstar forward with the National Basketball Association’s storied franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers. This . . .
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Oct. 4 — Today, on the one-month anniversary of the Battery Wharf Hotel strike, hundreds of supporters joined the picket line. Even before the rally start time of 4:30 p.m., 100 people were there. The spirit of solidarity was electrifying as students, unions and community organizations soon began arriving to . . .
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