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by Paul Le Blanc

Paul Le Blanc reviews a new book that reveals little known dimensions of Rosa Luxemburg the outstanding thinker and revolutionary, but also the generously gifted human being.

While unions, churches, and leagues are losing members, fraternities and sororities are drowning in new recruits. Their staying power comes from bundling belonging with elite advantage.

After years of warnings that the war in Ukraine could spiral into a full-on Russia-Europe conflagration, the conflict has reached a point where this is a real possibliity. It’s a prospect that threatens not just European lives but the entire globe.

J. D. Vance’s spiritual memoir is short on the spiritual and long on hypocrisy, oscillating between complaints about “the elites” and half-baked policy ideas that show little engagement with the Catholic social teaching he professes to admire.

It’s been 100 years since the opening of Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus building in Dessau, but the Alternative für Deutschland wants to cut funding from centenary events. The winner of recent state elections, the far-right party labels Bauhaus un-German.

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labour union is pleased to announce the formation of the new Regional Organising Committee for Zimbabwe (Zim-ROC). This new organizing committee was ratified by the union’s Delegate Council on the 16th September 2026.  This process began in August 2026 when Contract Tobacco Farmers from the major tobacco-producing areas of […]

1937–2026

October 12-18 is the International Workers' Association Week Against Unpaid Wages. The fight against unpaid wages is a permanent campaign of the IWA and the week is when we encourage the unions and other organizations to make some noise about this topic.

We point out that unpaid wages can take various forms:

- complete lack of payment for work performed
- underpayment of different kinds including forcing people to work overtime without extra payment, paying less than the agreed rate, paying less than the legal rate or less than required by a collective agreement, etc.
- forcing people to work on the wrong kind of contract so they are ineligible for statutory benefits, such as paid vacation or sick leave
- unjustified deductions from the salary
- illegal unpaid probationary periods, training periods and internships

… just to name a few of the ways that bosses rob the workers of the money they have earned.

You can participate in this Week in different ways – ranging from republishing our articles, to writing one of your own, from taking direct against a business where problems have occured to contacting workers in such a place and encouraging them to take action.

This story is part of an investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project. Read the other stories here. In May, the Hellenic Aquaculture Producers Organization gathered in Athens to promote the industry as the future of sustainable food security. Flanked by industry titans, the European commissioner for fisheries […]

WHITTED, Fla.—When Ann Jones runs her kitchen faucet, the water flows clear only some of the time. Sometimes the water is brown. Fill a pitcher, and the water is the color of iced tea. Jones, 81, is a gentle woman who has lived most of her life in this unincorporated historically Black community of 52 […]

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with veteran Maine journalist Kevin Miller. The closely watched race for U.S. Senate in Maine is pitting two environmentally concerned candidates against each other. Not only do they both have fairly similar green and climate views, they […]

Alan Thornett (1937-2026)

Liz Khan reports on the global network of women organising against war and militarism since 1988, with feminist analyses at their core

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As federal repression expands, the fight to defend indicted activists is becoming a test of working-class solidarity — and our ability to organize against authoritarianism.

MARTINEZ, Calif.—Scores of people tired of living near accident-prone refineries packed an elementary school auditorium to hear what their government officials were doing to protect them. Two local refineries, Marathon Martinez Renewables and Martinez Refining Co., have racked up hundreds of air quality violations over the past five years. MRC agreed in February to pay […]

Oil companies will no longer be required to conduct environmental reviews before exploring for fossil fuel reservoirs in the Western Arctic, the largest tract of federally managed public land in the United States. The Bureau of Land Management announced a categorical exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act for winter oil and gas exploration in […]

A crude oil pipeline spill last month in the Detroit suburbs has prompted federal authorities to open an investigation into the safety of all 20,000 miles of hazardous liquids pipelines operated by Energy Transfer. The 600-gallon spill at a commercial intersection in Sterling Heights, Michigan, has received little media coverage. Local news reports at the […]

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COUNTERPUNCH: Trump’s USDA Gambles America’s Forests on a Defective GMO Chestnut Tree Dr. Donald Davis October 2 2026: In support of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, Dr. Donald Davis published an article in Counterpunch on the USDA decision to approve the world’s first ever genetically engineered plant designed explicitly for release and self-spread in […]