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Union Jobs, at Your Fingertips
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Union workers make more than non-union workers, on average by more than 10%. For women, that differences is more than 20%. That’s a crucial pay bump for many working people, not to mention the job security, workplace protections, and earned respect that come with a union contract. These...
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In Britain, the Left Is Standing With Jeremy Corbyn
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It’s six weeks since Rishi Sunak ran up the white flag, announcing the long-awaited election sure to finish off fourteen years of Conservative rule. Excepting Nigel Farage’s malodorous late entry as new leader of the hard-right Reform, the campaign has unfolded largely without drama.
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The Right-Wing Network Manufacturing the War Against Higher Education
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A recent white paper by Isaac Kamola, director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, details the ongoing culture-war backlash against higher education in America, largely in response to the grassroots activism of Black Lives Matter in 2020 and increasing LGBTQ+ visibility. More than...
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Asset-Manager Firms Are Taking Over the Social Infrastructure on Which We All Depend
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World Brett Christophers Verso ISBN: 9781839768996 Asset management is an emerging part of the global financial system that has come to prominence since the great meltdown of 2008. Asset managers invest money on behalf of institutional...
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‘The Land Theft Continues’: Israel Announces Biggest West Bank Seizure in Over 30 Years
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Human rights defenders on Wednesday condemned the far-right Israeli government's announcement of the largest seizure of Palestinian land—many critics bluntly called it "land theft"—in the illegally occupied West Bank in over 30 years.
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Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier, Convicted Over 1975 FBI Killings, Denied Parole
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Leonard Peltier, the 79-year-old Indigenous activist who has spent nearly 50 years in prison for the 1975 murders of two FBI agents, has been denied parole. Many fear the ruling all but ensures that the longest-imprisoned Indigenous American will die behind bars.
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