As Keir Starmer’s Labour Party coasts toward power, its foreign policy discussion is all about being an outrider for Washington. As geopolitical conflict heats up, it wants to make Britain the US’s most implacable ally on the European continent.
This week, the Amazon Labor Union and the Teamsters announced an agreement to affiliate. If ratified, the agreement would charter a new New York City local, Amazon Labor Union No. 1, International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The New York Times’s Pamela Paul postures as a free speech champion. Yet somehow, employers blacklisting student Palestine protesters doesn’t seem to bother her.
A historic congestion pricing plan for New York City was slated to go into effect this month. NY governor Kathy Hochul suddenly blocked it this week — and has taken tens of thousand of dollars in campaign funding from auto groups opposed to the plan.
By continuing its military assault on Gaza, massacring civilians in Rafah, and intimidating opponents into submission, Israel is taking rogue action against the International Court of Justice’s Genocide Convention — and the US is enabling it.
Left-wing parties like Die Linke and Podemos look set to perform poorly in this weekend’s EU elections. Working-class voters are far from happy with the current EU leadership, but the Left is failing to convince them that it can change things.
This week, the US tested ICBMs off the California coast. These warheads, which are one of the main contributors to America’s ballooning military budget, are not only strategically impractical but a threat to the lives of millions.
Tens of thousands have died in Gaza and millions face starvation. And Benjamin Netanyahu, the man responsible for it, is being welcomed to the US by Democratic leaders as a dignitary rather than a bloodthirsty maniac.
The Department of Justice is bringing a major antitrust case against the hated Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation. Will it be enough to fix an increasingly predatory live-music industry?
In the 1930s and ’40s, meatpacking employers used racial hiring policies as “strike insurance,” strategically fostering racism to discourage unionization. The Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee organized across racial lines and proved them wrong.
In 1999, 50,000 activists hit the Seattle streets to block a major World Trade Organization conference. The anti-globalization movement petered out shortly thereafter, but the protests set the tone for the mass mobilizations of the 21st century.
Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party is often said to have won Hungarians’ support by offering them government largesse. But the benefits it offers are hardly universal, and they’re helping parts of the middle classes more than working people or the rural poor.