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American showdown
HANNAH SELL reviews one of the numerous recent books looking at the events in Washington DC on 6 January 2021 and their aftermath, examining the crisis in both the Republican and Democrat parties and the […]
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US: Out in the Streets to defend abortion rights!
Workers won’t go back to the past Stop the Right-Wing Attack on Civil Rights On June 24th the Supreme Court in the US overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade that protected the legal […]
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US: Build a movement to defend and expand abortion rights
On 2 May, a draft opinion from the Supreme Court case Dobbs v Jackson was leaked, suggesting that the ruling in this case will overturn the precedent set by Roe v. Wade. If this happens, […]
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Lessons of the Massachusetts St. Vincent nurses strike
The longest strike in the U.S. in 2021 and the longest nurses’ strike in Massachusetts history ended in January 2022 when union nurses voted to ratify a new contract. 700 members of the Massachusetts Nurses […]
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Ukraine crisis – workers’ unity needed to oppose warmongering, imperialism and poverty
The beating of war drums is getting ever louder. For weeks, Western media and politicians have raised the prospect of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine, and are threatening dire consequences for the Putin regime, […]
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Trade unionists in the USA fight back
Union workers in 2021 were in at least 346 strikes across most sectors of the U.S. economy including manufacturing, transportation, and services. During October, there were 53 strikes of over 28,000 workers. “Striketober” and “Strikesgiving” […]
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USA: Fourteen workers killed in Amazon facility during storms
On Friday, December 10th, a massive weather system struck large parts of the US, producing powerful, out-of-season tornadoes that hit six states in the South and Midwest. This storm wave is the latest headline in […]
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Over 200 days on strike – working class and union solidarity needed to win St. Vincent nurses’ strike
The MNA nurses’ strike at St. Vincent hospital is now the longest in Massachusetts history. Nurses first walked out of St. Vincent in March in response to unsafe patient limits, inadequate personal protective equipment (PPE), […]
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US: Right wing vigilante, Kyle Rittenhouse, acquittal by court provokes outrage
Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot three protestors and killed two during the Jacob Blake protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was acquitted of all charges yesterday. The police shooting of Jacob Blake on August 23rd, 2020 […]
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Union members protested working conditions prior to ‘Rust’ film set shooting
The shooting death of Halnya Hutchins on the set of Alec Baldwin’s film Rust is as heartbreaking as it was preventable. In the weeks leading up to the tragedy, crew members reported multiple misfires with […]