Spain’s left-wing alliance Sumar sought to use high office to deliver workers’ rights and lower the cost of living. During the pandemic, it made progress — but now that the broad-left coalition has no majority, Sumar is struggling to make itself heard.
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Donald Trump’s erratic tariff rollout seems likely to deepen the world’s dependence on China and scare off investment in US reindustrialization, undermining his own administration’s stated goals. There’s no art to this incoherent, self-destructive deal.
Gazan brothers Haytham and Bashar spent most of their adult lives in Europe — but after being deported, they came back home, where they were killed by an Israeli rocket. Their story shows the deadly nature of Europe’s growing anti-refugee policies.
80 years ago today, the prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp liberated themselves. Their legacy is internationalist and antifascist. Yet the far-right Israeli embassy determined who could speak at the official commemoration.
On Friday, a Louisiana judge ruled that the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil. This isn't a legal setback: it is a political assault on free speech, the student movement for Palestine, and on immigrant rights.
Despite claiming to offer an alternative to Shawn Fain's chauvinistic defense of U. S. industry, Sean Crawford and Labor Notes are just putting forward a slightly more progressive vision of business unionism.
On Thursday, hundreds of thousands in Argentina joined a national strike, bringing industry, transit, and other services to a standstill. The country’s working class is showing the way to fight the Far Right.
Today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ. Historian Quinn Slobodian explains how these ideas can be fitted together.