From Vanity Fair 01/06 Was Only the Beginning January 6 Was the Beginning of Ashli Babbitt as martyr in Trump’s cult. To Trump’s true believers, the insurrection was an act of faith, Ashli Babbitt is

Bobby MacVeety wrote "How about providing material support for Ukrainian socialists other than weapons (humanitarian aid)?" Folks can do that. Home | Workers Aid (Int) (workers-aid.net) and Internatio

.... Yuliia Kulchytska, 41, was at the train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on April 8 to see off her daughter’s boyfriend, who was headed to Kyiv, when the station came under a Russian missile strik

"...war creates public health crises... the costs of war... do not end when one side or the other declares victory." Dr. Barry Levy, a past president of the American Public Health Association, an adju

From noted Marxist journal Teen Vogue On April 26, student workers at Iowa’s Grinnell College elected to create the first wall-to-wall undergraduate student union in the country, expanding their Union

Faran Congrats on vacating "You have nothing to lose but your threads" Brian

After servicing New York City’s wealthiest throughout the pandemic, 32,000 residential workers refused to accept a regressive new contract. https://inequality.org/great-divide/historic-deal-for-union-

For those who are considering vacating Twitter this may be of value https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbqjd/if-you-want-to-leave-twitter-because-of-elon-musk-these-are-your-options Brian Gibbons

Here's further info detailing favorable elements of new contract https://capitalandmain.com/a-watershed-for-47000-socal-grocery-workers-the-biggest-raise-in-decades Brian

“We made history!” Erika Bentzen, a food clerk at a Ralphs in Thousand Oaks who was on the bargaining team, said in a union statement. “This was the first-time members were part of the negotiations an

"In an era of widening gaps between the rich and everyone else, ProPublica’s analysis shows that the U.S. tax system is making inequality worse." "A trove of IRS data obtained by ProPublica has the de

Pessimism used to be for monetary cranks; now even Goldman Sachs warns the dollar will go the way of the pound https://asiatimes.com/2022/04/doing-without-the-dollar/ Brian Gibbons

Strike organizer Kaitlyn McCoy says that the last straw came when there was no one available to cover for a sick employee, leaving only two people to work a shift, one of whom was nearly nine months p

Western media is fully capable of prevaricating* when needed; to serve the interest of another- you name it. Yes, it behooves MM'ers to be healthy skeptics of western media reports, use your head when

well yeah... but it's one thing at a time Brian Gibbons

As Smalls and the Staten Island workers were celebrating their success on Friday, a larger, better-funded effort to organize a union at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., was failing for the secon

... he “just wanted to do my part the best way I know how.” https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bv45/tiktok-script-ralphs-scab-fake-applications Brian Gibbons

No matter your opinion Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) is credited w/ saying it first “Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if

While as listed; reparations haven't occurred Bradley only writes Ukraine is a good a place as any to set the precedent and start with the real expropriation of monopoly capitalists who always are the

West grieves for Ukraine while Afghanistan starves From Black Alliance for Peace 03/24 newsletter Afghanistan has joined the ever-growing ranks of countries forcibly thrown into desperate humanitarian