The Strange Politics of Giving Paraprofessionals More Money
NYC’s most under-paid educators got organized – and are now caught in a complicated political crossfire.
The Indypendent
Danny Katch
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has sided with the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda. Members of a Brooklyn-based Teamsters local tried to go on the record with a vision of solidarity between all workers
Running on Empty: How the Dems Lost to Trump for the Second Time in Eight Years
Kamala Harris stopped talking about how she would fight for working-class Americans out of deference to her supporters on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.
The Brief, Brave Life of Larry Casuse
David Correia’s new book brings to life the Red Power movement of the early 1970s and the Navajo struggle for self-determination against a society that ruthlessly exploited them.
‘New York Officials Have Given Up On Eradicating This Virus’
An emergency room nurse says a second wave of the pandemic is inevitable, and it’s just a question of how bad it will be.
For all of the catastrophic low points of Donald Trump’s time in office — praising murderous Nazis in Charlottesville,…
2020 America is a Bad Joke, and It Was Told By Ronald Reagan
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” …
Joe Allen’s ‘Package King’ Delivers a Modern History of the Essential Worker
On May 1, workers at Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target and FedEx protested for better health and safety…
NYC Nurse: We’re Fighting COVID, Budget Cuts & ‘Murderous Racial Inequalities’
Sean Petty is a pediatric emergency room nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx and the southern regional…
NYC Public Hospital Worker Warns ‘We Should Expect the Worst’ From Coronavirus
Amid a shortage of N95 masks and a lack of rapid testing, caregivers are being ordered to work unless they show symptoms.