ShutterstockElection after election, voters are turning against mass incarceration and the war on drugs that sustains it.In 2020, the people of Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota voted to , joining 11 other states and the District of Columbia. In Oregon, voters opted to of all drugs. And even during the deeply divisive Trump administration, bipartisan  managed to pass a Republican Senate and Democratic House to get signed into law.Slowly but surely, the absurdly large incarcerated population in the U.S. is . One noteworthy exception, though, is...…ShutterstockElection after election, voters are turning against mass incarceration and the war on drugs that sustains it.In 2020, the people of Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota voted to , joining 11 other states and the District of Columbia. In Oregon, voters opted to of all drugs. And even during the deeply divisive Trump administration, bipartisan  managed to pass a Republican Senate and Democratic House to get signed into law.Slowly but surely, the absurdly large incarcerated population in the U.S. is . One noteworthy exception, though, is...WW…

A restaurant worker cleans the tables in the outdoor dining area of a Mexican restaurant in La Mirada, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Waiters and bartenders are being thrown out of work – again – as governors and local officials shut down indoor dining and drinking establishments to combat the nationwide surge in coronavirus infections that is overwhelming hospitals and dashing hopes for a quick economic recovery. Under Trump's labor policy she can look forward to having her tips go to her boss if and when she gets back on the job. | Jae C. Hong/APWASHINGTON —Previously thwarted by...…A restaurant worker cleans the tables in the outdoor dining area of a Mexican restaurant in La Mirada, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Waiters and bartenders are being thrown out of work – again – as governors and local officials shut down indoor dining and drinking establishments to combat the nationwide surge in coronavirus infections that is overwhelming hospitals and dashing hopes for a quick economic recovery. Under Trump's labor policy she can look forward to having her tips go to her boss if and when she gets back on the job. | Jae C. Hong/APWASHINGTON —Previously thwarted by...WW…

Workers in the Yakima area's fruit plants are demanding better working conditions. | Familias Unidas Por La JusticiaYAKIMA, Wash.—On May 7, over 100 workers at Allen Brothers Fruit in Naches, Wash., near Yakima, went on strike, protesting unsafe and unhealthy working conditions. This took place at their packing and shipping facility. The workers are demanding safer working conditions and $2-an-hour hazardous duty pay. Dozens of workers have left work due to contracting the COVID-19 virus.Within a few days, they were joined by hundreds more workers at other Yakima area warehouses, at the...…Workers in the Yakima area's fruit plants are demanding better working conditions. | Familias Unidas Por La JusticiaYAKIMA, Wash.—On May 7, over 100 workers at Allen Brothers Fruit in Naches, Wash., near Yakima, went on strike, protesting unsafe and unhealthy working conditions. This took place at their packing and shipping facility. The workers are demanding safer working conditions and $2-an-hour hazardous duty pay. Dozens of workers have left work due to contracting the COVID-19 virus.Within a few days, they were joined by hundreds more workers at other Yakima area warehouses, at the...WW…

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. | Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via APWASHINGTON (PAI)—The almost evenly split Senate is still wrangling over Democratic President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package, but the Congressional Progressive Caucus is looking ahead to the next one, its chair says.And while Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., didn’t throw out any numbers in her Zoom session with Our Revolution Board Chair Larry Cohen and the organization’s members, she said it will be huge, concentrating on infrastructure—and strengthening workers’ wages and rights in those projects.Jayapal...…Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. | Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via APWASHINGTON (PAI)—The almost evenly split Senate is still wrangling over Democratic President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package, but the Congressional Progressive Caucus is looking ahead to the next one, its chair says.And while Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., didn’t throw out any numbers in her Zoom session with Our Revolution Board Chair Larry Cohen and the organization’s members, she said it will be huge, concentrating on infrastructure—and strengthening workers’ wages and rights in those projects.Jayapal...WW…

An informational picketer at the HQ2 construction site in Arlington. | TN LongARLINGTON, Va.—On Saturday, Feb. 20, the coordinated over 40 solidarity events around the country in support of the workers at the Bessemer, Ala., Amazon facility who are currently in the midst of a vote to unionize their workplace. The unionization campaign there, called the , is organized by the Mid-South Council of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU).Several events were held in Virginia to back the Bessemer workers, one next to the site of the future Amazon HQ2 in Arlington, and two others...…An informational picketer at the HQ2 construction site in Arlington. | TN LongARLINGTON, Va.—On Saturday, Feb. 20, the coordinated over 40 solidarity events around the country in support of the workers at the Bessemer, Ala., Amazon facility who are currently in the midst of a vote to unionize their workplace. The unionization campaign there, called the , is organized by the Mid-South Council of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU).Several events were held in Virginia to back the Bessemer workers, one next to the site of the future Amazon HQ2 in Arlington, and two others...WW…

People hold posters of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, marking the two-year anniversary of his death, Oct. 2, 2020. The posters read in Arabic:' Khashoggi's Friends Around the World'. | Emrah Gurel / APWASHINGTON (PAI)—Democratic President Joe Biden’s decision to take no action, including no sanctions, against Saudi Arabia’s de facto supreme ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, for ordering the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is angering The News Guild.A Bin Salman-sent hit squad murdered and dismembered Khashoggi, a...…People hold posters of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, marking the two-year anniversary of his death, Oct. 2, 2020. The posters read in Arabic:' Khashoggi's Friends Around the World'. | Emrah Gurel / APWASHINGTON (PAI)—Democratic President Joe Biden’s decision to take no action, including no sanctions, against Saudi Arabia’s de facto supreme ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, for ordering the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is angering The News Guild.A Bin Salman-sent hit squad murdered and dismembered Khashoggi, a...WW…

Evan Vucci/APSince taking office in January, President Joe Biden has had his hands full managing the COVID-19 pandemic and rolling out the most aggressive vaccination drive in U.S. history. This month, congressional Democrats muscled a  across the finish line, passing the first major bill of the Biden administration without a single Republican vote. With the first legislative hurdle of 2021 out of the way, the Biden team is reportedly turning to another time-sensitive crisis: climate change.On Monday, the New York Times  that Biden’s economic advisers are preparing to...…Evan Vucci/APSince taking office in January, President Joe Biden has had his hands full managing the COVID-19 pandemic and rolling out the most aggressive vaccination drive in U.S. history. This month, congressional Democrats muscled a  across the finish line, passing the first major bill of the Biden administration without a single Republican vote. With the first legislative hurdle of 2021 out of the way, the Biden team is reportedly turning to another time-sensitive crisis: climate change.On Monday, the New York Times  that Biden’s economic advisers are preparing to...WW…

President Biden is putting forward a budget that hikes domestic spending enormously but also increases military spending by 1.7 percent. | Patrick Semansky/APWASHINGTON—Democratic President Joe Biden’s $1.5 trillion spending blueprint for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 contains a big hike for domestic programs, while his Pentagon proposal—a 1.7% increase—caught flak from both left and right. Congressional progressives said the military money should be cut, while Republicans wanted even more for war, and less for everything else.Biden’s spending plan, which he’ll elaborate on with even more...…President Biden is putting forward a budget that hikes domestic spending enormously but also increases military spending by 1.7 percent. | Patrick Semansky/APWASHINGTON—Democratic President Joe Biden’s $1.5 trillion spending blueprint for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 contains a big hike for domestic programs, while his Pentagon proposal—a 1.7% increase—caught flak from both left and right. Congressional progressives said the military money should be cut, while Republicans wanted even more for war, and less for everything else.Biden’s spending plan, which he’ll elaborate on with even more...WW…

President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order issuing a blanket limit on federal regulations to "support economic recovery" during a Cabinet Meeting in the East Room of the White House, May 19, 2020, in Washington.| Evan Vucci / APWASHINGTON—Catering to corporate chieftains and right-wing ideologues, GOP President Donald Trump ordered all federal departments and agencies, large and small, to trash rules and regulations, and their enforcement. He used the excuse that doing so would help stimulate the economy to recover from closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.Trump did not...…President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order issuing a blanket limit on federal regulations to "support economic recovery" during a Cabinet Meeting in the East Room of the White House, May 19, 2020, in Washington.| Evan Vucci / APWASHINGTON—Catering to corporate chieftains and right-wing ideologues, GOP President Donald Trump ordered all federal departments and agencies, large and small, to trash rules and regulations, and their enforcement. He used the excuse that doing so would help stimulate the economy to recover from closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.Trump did not...WW…

A CP-sponsored rally in support of Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteers fighting for democracy against fascism in Spain. | People's World ArchiveAs the Communist Party USA’s second decade ended, World War II, the greatest war in human history, began. In all major capitalist countries, the mass media blamed the war on the Soviet Union’s signing of a non–aggression pact with Nazi Germany and condemned Communist Parties’ support for the Soviet Union. Was there truth to the allegation that Communists—both in the Soviet Union and around the world—had helped Hitler start the war?The first question...…A CP-sponsored rally in support of Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteers fighting for democracy against fascism in Spain. | People's World ArchiveAs the Communist Party USA’s second decade ended, World War II, the greatest war in human history, began. In all major capitalist countries, the mass media blamed the war on the Soviet Union’s signing of a non–aggression pact with Nazi Germany and condemned Communist Parties’ support for the Soviet Union. Was there truth to the allegation that Communists—both in the Soviet Union and around the world—had helped Hitler start the war?The first question...WW…