By Ryan Paul
Florida parents, teachers and education workers are finding themselves in a uniquely precarious situation. For one, they are contending with threats from various state elements to force them to go back to school and to send …
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A New Labor Feminism
By Melissa Jameson
I’ve always been interested in labor feminism in particular, and the wider socialist-feminist tradition. Lately, I’ve been wanting to reconnect with our Anarchist Syndicalist roots.
The spirit of the older labor feminist movement was mostly reformist. It …
Read moreWSA 2020 Labor Day Statement —— The Time is Now
WSA 2020 Labor Day Statement —— The Time is Now
Over a hundred years ago a frightened President Grover Cleveland pushed congress to recognize Labor Day as a federal holiday in 1894 (the September holiday was first observed in 1882 …
Read moreJHU Student Sit-In
By Ryan Paul
Between April 3rd and May 8th of 2019, a sit-in protest took place at Garland Hall, John’s Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, MD. It came to be known by university press and other media as the “Garland …
Read moreJustice for George Floyd!
By Sachio Ko-yin
The death of George Floyd comes as waves of crisis are devastating communities of color. We are in the midst of two global disasters: the unchecked climate crisis and the mismanaged COVID pandemic. And as with all
…The Conversation Has To Happen!
By Danielle Kulp
In many American households people are wringing their hands and wondering, “what’s going on?” They see the fires, the damage, the looting, and wonder how the death of one man, George Floyd, could cause all of this. …
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We Support the Uprising – Statement by East Bay Group of Workers Solidarity Alliance
The unprecedented scope of the uprising this past week reflects widespread discontent on various levels – and widespread disdain and criticism for the racist and repressive role of the police as an institution in the USA. The immediate issue is …
Read moreCovid-19 Crisis and Battling Capitalism in the Post-Truth Era
By Jason Fiore
The COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. has been exacerbated by mass consumption of right wing conspiratorial fake news that downplays the seriousness of the crisis and upholds market liberalism as the solution. What is new about this …
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