VU Manufacturing has shut down its maquiladora in Piedras Negras, preferring to deprive hundreds of workers of jobs than to negotiate a new contract with the independent union workers formed last year.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
Local lawmakers renew push for One Fair Wage in Maryland
New legislation in Montgomery County would end the subminimum tip wage system in the service industry, setting an example for other local governments to follow.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
When Zionists redefine ‘antisemitism’ into a political cudgel
The IHRA definition of antisemitism is designed to muzzle criticism of Israel. It should be rejected in favor of a more historically informed discussion on Zionism’s origins in European antisemitism.
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Canada has ignored India’s targeting of Sikh activists for too long
Canada’s government has bolstered economic ties with a far-right Indian government, while turning a blind eye to its attacks on Sikh Canadians—which now includes political assassination
Posted inRattling the Bars
El Salvador’s ‘gang crackdown’ and the permanent state of exception
Nayib Bukele’s wholesale arrests of suspected ‘gang members’ has sent his approval rating soaring.
Posted inEdge of Sports TV
Let’s call Luis Rubiales’s ‘kiss’ what it was—assault
The now former president of the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation has disgraced FIFA, the sport, and himself.
Posted inThe Chris Hedges Report
‘Silent Coup’: How capitalism defeated decolonization
The crumbling of European empires after WWII didn’t usher in a new era of democracy—instead, we now live in a regime of international corporate rule.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
‘This is for the future’: Is the UAW strike a watershed moment for worker militancy?
The UAW’s creative ‘stand up’ strike strategy has inspired confidence from auto workers on the picket line while sending the Big Three scrambling to respond.
Posted inEdge of Sports TV
College athletes are being exploited. It’s time to unionize.
Universities make fortunes off unpaid athletes who put their health and future at risk for a chance at an education.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Amilcar Cabral in the age of ‘identity politics’
On the occasion of the republication of ‘Return to the Source’ by Monthly Review Press, a panel of long-serving Pan-Africanists reflect on the life of Amilcar Cabral and the relevance of his teachings to current liberation movements.