This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldVoting has begun on the first real union election at an Amazon warehouse in the US. And the stakes couldn’t be higherLast modified on Mon 8 Feb 2021 11.09 ESTLikewise, the labor movement in America has a rich history stretching back more than a century, but you can understand its key purpose like so: it exists to make working people as powerful in our economy as companies are. Without strong unions, the imbalance of power between employers and employees is so hopeless that it can produce a society where a tiny handful...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldVoting has begun on the first real union election at an Amazon warehouse in the US. And the stakes couldn’t be higherLast modified on Mon 8 Feb 2021 11.09 ESTLikewise, the labor movement in America has a rich history stretching back more than a century, but you can understand its key purpose like so: it exists to make working people as powerful in our economy as companies are. Without strong unions, the imbalance of power between employers and employees is so hopeless that it can produce a society where a tiny handful...WW…

This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldTrump has realized that our vast post-9/11 security state can be used to police internal bogeymen like antifaLast modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 18.55 ESTIf there was ever a tipping point, we are past it. Trying to stare hard at the daily news to determine the exact point at which we slip into fascism is like staring at a baby to see when it turns into an adult. By the time you perceive it, it’s already happened. It is important to understand that the crackdown phase that we are now in – the unaccountable government...…This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldTrump has realized that our vast post-9/11 security state can be used to police internal bogeymen like antifaLast modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 18.55 ESTIf there was ever a tipping point, we are past it. Trying to stare hard at the daily news to determine the exact point at which we slip into fascism is like staring at a baby to see when it turns into an adult. By the time you perceive it, it’s already happened. It is important to understand that the crackdown phase that we are now in – the unaccountable government...WW…

RelatedThis pandemic makes it clear that under capitalism, the worker is not that far removed from the pauper.President Trump is standing in the way of any relief funding for the USPS.Postal workers are essential to our public health and integrity of our elections.Get daily news, in-depth reporting and critical analysis from the journalists, activists and thinkers who are working to improve our world..…RelatedThis pandemic makes it clear that under capitalism, the worker is not that far removed from the pauper.President Trump is standing in the way of any relief funding for the USPS.Postal workers are essential to our public health and integrity of our elections.Get daily news, in-depth reporting and critical analysis from the journalists, activists and thinkers who are working to improve our world..WW…