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Peru ranks oil production over pandemic threat and Indigenous rights

July 9, 2020 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The capitalist Peruvian state is in shambles. It didn’t prepare to meet the pandemic and long ago cast its population adrift.

‘Strike for Black Lives’: Planned July 20 walkout unites BLM and unions

July 9, 2020 By Aaron Morrison

Service Employees International Union has partnered with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, United Farm Workers, the Fight for $15 and a Union, the Poor People's Campaign, and others.

Trumka rips Senate GOP and its leader, McConnell

July 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has had it up to here with the U.S. Senate’s ruling Republicans and specifically with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Separation of Trump and state: Blocking Republicans’ evangelical election strategy

July 8, 2020 By John Bachtell

For Christian nationalists, kings like Trump don’t have to follow the rules: They are the law. But progressive Christians are challenging fundamentalists' hold on the faith.

Cuba helping the world fight COVID-19, despite U.S. government’s retaliation efforts

July 8, 2020 By Orlando Oramas León

While the U.S. tries to disqualify Cuba’s international medical cooperation, the list of brigades sent by the island to fight COVID-19 in different latitudes of the planet grows.