The 1970s were a high-water mark for the US labor movement, with work stoppages, wildcat strikes, and sit-downs spreading up and down the country, involving workers in all industries.
An AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) strike in San Jose, California, in the late 1970s.

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The 1970s: Decade of the Rank and File

On the night of September 30, 1965, a bungled coup d’état resulted in the deaths of a handful of Indonesian generals, a lieutenant, and the five-year-old daughter of one general who escaped the kidnapping. Within days, a relatively unknown military figure, Suharto, had jumped the chain of command. Suharto blamed the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), […]

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The True Story of Indonesia’s US-Backed Anti-Communist Bloodbath

Team owners in Canadian football made record profits while many of their players had to work second jobs to make ends meet. Now they’re using the pandemic as an excuse to claw back wages even further — a player fightback is the only way to change the game.

It’s Time for Players to Tackle the Great Canadian Football Rip

Last Friday, the Dutch government had to resign in scandal, after thousands of parents were wrongly accused of making fraudulent childcare benefit claims. The affair was driven by racist demonization of welfare recipients deeply rooted in the country’s politics.
Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte at a news conference on July 9, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

The Dutch Government’s Benefits Scandal Is Rooted in Stigma Against Welfare Recipients

For both Democratic and Republican politicians, blaming social gatherings for coronavirus’s spread is convenient. But they’ve ignored or denied the central role workplace transmission plays in driving up infections. We need to treat coronavirus as the occupational disease it is — and that means restricting the power of business owners.

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Coronavirus Is an Occupational Disease That Spreads at Work

B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, has taken an extraordinary step — following many Palestinian and human rights groups around the world — in calling the state of Israel what it is: an apartheid regime and thus anything but a democracy.

Israeli NGO: Israel Is an Apartheid Regime

Reaction to the death of one-time home run king Hank Aaron. He died Friday at the age of 86:

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Israeli human rights group B'Tselem made the headlines this week when it released a new paper in which – for the first time – it described Israel as an apartheid state. The paper is titled "A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid".In one succinct and accurate passage, B'Tselem explains that, "The Israeli regime, which controls all the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean …

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[Opinion] B'Tselem didn't go far enough; Israel has always been an apartheid state

Metal detectors are being installed outside of the House chambers in the Capitol that everyone, including members, must pass through to get to the floor in the wake of last Wednesday’s breach of the building.

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