While My Qatar Gently Weeps
This year’s World Cup in Qatar is not the first time the event has been co-opted by autocrats.
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Collective Action Wins: New School Adjuncts Claim Victory After 24-Day Strike
Solidarity from students, parents and other unions boosted the strikers’ cause.
Workers at Dual Starbucks-Amazon Go Store Take on Union-Busting Giants
They are fighting for better pay and working conditions
Part-time faculty’s demands for a raise to address inflation are being ignored, even though management salaries increased by 45% between 2014 and 2019.
New Yorkers Protest China’s COVID Lockdown And Government Repression
Chinese protesters in New York call for an end to China’s zero-COVID lockdowns and fear retaliation from the Chinese government even from thousands of miles away.
Richard Fierro Is a Hero, but Let’s Not Overlook LGBTQ+ Activists Doing the Work
The public’s enthusiasm for a straight savior in the Colorado Springs Nightclub mass shooting says a lot about who we are able to see as heroes.
Workers Bring Black Friday Protest to Jeff Bezos’ Manhattan Mansion
On Friday, Nov. 25 around 11 a.m., dozens of workers-rights protesters in New York City gathered on the corner…
Kingston Rent Guidelines Board Cuts Rents by 15%!
Landlords are outraged by the first-ever rollback.
Unlike many of his peers in academia, his truckdriver-turned-Marxist professor never lost sight of the importance of class struggle.
Mourning the Love of One’s Life
Playwright Karen Malpede lost her husband George Bartinieff, co-founder of Theatre for a New City, in July.