Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called it a “brazen incursion.” White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre called it “a clear violation of our sovereignty.” Not to be outdone, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tweeted that “China’s brazen disregard for U.S. sovereignty is a destabilizing action that must be addressed, and President Biden . . .
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As we go to press, the city employees won a new contract. Read more at workers.org More than 600 Portland city employees, working without a contract since June, walked off of their jobs Feb. 2, because the city refused to pay them wages they need to survive Portland’s rising cost-of-living . . .
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The “Reconstruction Era” following the Civil War spanned 1865-1876; it was a brief period in which formerly enslaved Black people won some political, social and economic rights in the South. But the former slaveocracy regained state power and enforced economic and political oppression once again. The March to the Sea, . . .
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Declaración del Partido Mundo Obrero Tyre Nichols, un hombre negro de 29 años y conductor de FedEx en Memphis, Tennessee, fue brutalmente golpeado por la policía de Memphis. Detenido a dos minutos de su casa el 7 de enero, recibió tal golpiza que sucumbió a sus heridas tres días después. . . .
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