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Drivers for companies like Uber and Lyft are wildly exploited, largely because they’re misclassified as independent contractors. Recent union deals to protect those drivers leave them as independent contractors — just the way the rideshare bosses want it.

The Absent Left in Thetford

General Strike San Diego is the newest project in A Radical Guide's Financial Solidarity Project.

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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been imprisoned and barred from public office for life. As Argentina heads toward its 2027 elections, her case shows what democratic erosion looks like when it comes in judicial robes.

A new study finds that people across the political spectrum share a remarkably similar understanding of exploitation: the unjust use of power to secure unequal outcomes.

TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States was overturned by the government, following a June 25 ruling by the Supreme Court to allow the termination. On August 6 all legal work permits ended, Mass layoffs will occur, leading to Haitians losing their homes. Overnight thousands of legal residents… Continue reading Revoking TPS: Trump Escalates Racist Assault

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The Odyssey’s runaway success should green light more 70mm IMAX screens. But deindustrialization killed the skilled trades that built the projectors and the union jobs that ran them — so instead we’ll get resale markets and paywalled seats.

August 11, 2026

On Friday, August 7, the Senate confirmed James Macy as the third Republican member of the National Labor Relations Board. With a 3-1 majority, the Republican members of the board are expected to begin overturning pro-worker decisions made by the NLRB's Democratic majority during the Biden administration.

Meteorologists' report shows record and near-record temperatures across the globe in 2025

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California Democrats just defied Gavin Newsom to endorse a billionaire wealth tax. The fight previews a national battle in which centrists push “pragmatic” alternatives that would barely make a dent in ultra-elites’ wealth or power.

The gig economy promised flexibility, but it also fudged one simple question: Who counts as an employee? This legal ambiguity undermines the rights of not just Amazon and Uber workers but the whole labor force.

A community organizer stands in an old growth cutblock in the Upper Walbran, September 2025.   Stand.earth’s Forest Eye watchdog platform combines satellite imagery, remote sensing, and government data to detect logging in the most rare and at-risk old growth forests in British Columbia. Every alert on Forest Eye represents a threatened forest. Now, using […]

To win change for working people, the Democratic Socialists of America should expand its vision of how to change our constitutional order. We can smash unaccountable executive and judiciary power even without having to amend the Constitution.

Milton Friedman argued that capitalism was democracy’s natural home. He couldn’t have been more wrong.

More than 6,500 people have signed a petition demanding that FERC reject the Mountain Valley Pipeline expansion as state concerns remain unresolved. RICHMOND, VA — On Friday, August 7, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued its Environmental Assessment (EA) for Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) proposed “MVP Boost” expansion. While the assessment concludes that the […]

The post Thousands Urge Feds to Reject “MVP Boost” While Virginia DEQ Suspends Impact Review appeared first on Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

The years-old joke goes that centrists fight the Left harder than they fight Donald Trump. It’s no longer a joke: after “rolling over and playing dead” after 2024, centrists like Third Way are now coming back alive — to fight against socialism.

When The Battle of Algiers premiered at the Venice Film Festival 60 years ago this month, the French delegation refused to attend. From the moment of its shooting, in the aftermath of Algeria’s liberation war, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film was deeply political.

The American carceral state is a machine of human rights abuses. But abolition hasn't convinced the country that it can end them. To build mass support for dismantling it, we need carceral minimalism.