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Advocates hold Congressional hearing in defense of Cuba

Advocates hold Congressional hearing in defense of Cuba

WASHINGTON—Events on September 2 in D.C. capped intense summer work and coordination between National Network on Cuba (NNOC), Americas without Sanctions, and Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. The pro-Cuba groups were aware of the inhumane conditions imposed by the U.S. on multiple countries in Latin America, and that U.S. influence over elections has moved seven countries far […]

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Rural communities fear impacts of data centers

Rural communities fear impacts of data centers

For further reading:  Fort Worth residents tell city council: No data centers Data centers at center of Virginia battles over taxes, environment, and jobs You can’t drink data

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Avante! Festival at 50: Portuguese Communists celebrate five decades of democracy and struggle

Avante! Festival at 50: Portuguese Communists celebrate five decades of democracy and struggle

SEIXAL, Portugal—Hundreds of thousands of Communists, workers, youth, and their allies joined the 50th anniversary of the Avante! Festival (Festa do Avante!) from Sept. 4 to 6 in Seixal, Portugal, a suburb just outside the capital, Lisbon. The event is named for Avante!, or Forward! in English, the newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party, which […]

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Official jobless rate stays at 4.1% in August

Official jobless rate stays at 4.1% in August

WASHINGTON—The nation’s unemployment rate stayed at 4.1% in August, while the number of jobless people rose by 115,000 to 7.031 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.  The private sector claimed to create 127,000 new jobs while governments added 35,000, a separate survey showed. But the private sector figure is unadjusted and incomplete and in […]

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Mamdani opens Mayor’s Office of Worker Power

Mamdani opens Mayor’s Office of Worker Power

NEW YORK—Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked Labor Day, Sept. 7, by announcing the creation of the Mayor’s Office of Worker Power (MOWP). The new office is the first such body created anywhere in the nation. Its purpose will be to bring the city government’s full force into the fight to end exploitation of workers suffering from […]

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Mecca military pact: Is it the ‘Islamic NATO’?

Mecca military pact: Is it the ‘Islamic NATO’?

On Aug. 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan established a military alliance that many experts are saying could reshape power across West and South Asia. Signed in Mecca by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the agreement declares that an armed attack against any […]

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‘The Arsonists’ play review: Absurdist theater takes on evils of capitalism

‘The Arsonists’ play review: Absurdist theater takes on evils of capitalism

I strongly suspect that when the Swiss-German playwright Max Frisch wrote The Arsonists during the 1950s, he fully intended it to be mounted in a wildly over-the-top manner. This was, after all, during the heyday of the Theater of the Absurd, and the astute theatergoer can discern the influences of Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Friedrich […]

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Opposition is not enough: Authoritarian crisis requires a movement that votes

Opposition is not enough: Authoritarian crisis requires a movement that votes

3.5% is a data point that has become popular among people who want to build a movement to defeat authoritarianism and reconstruct democracy in the United States. It comes from great research by Erica Chenowith at Harvard University on nonviolent movements for social change – work we cited in our 2024 book, White Poverty. After studying […]

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RAPID RESPONSE: Housing is a human right!

RAPID RESPONSE: Housing is a human right!

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT! Call, write, or visit your U.S. Senators and Representatives and demand they co-sponsor and support S. 5284, the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rep. Delia Ramirez, along with 40 House and six Senate co-sponsors. Our nation is facing a […]

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Venezuela hands over oil production and reserves to the U.S.

Venezuela hands over oil production and reserves to the U.S.

President Donald Trump on Aug. 28 announced via social media an agreement with Venezuela that puts a sizable portion of that country’s oil production and oil reserves under U.S. control. In a six-minute television address the next day, acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez commented on Trump’s remarks. Two days later, the text of the agreement […]

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