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Rip City Ripoff: Oregon officials starve residents to feed a billionaire
As the cost of living for the average working-class American continues to rise, residents in Oregon are being hit particularly hard, while our elected representatives sell us out to line the pockets of a billionaire. The state is currently facing a nearly $200 million budget shortfall, which has led to elected officials there having to…
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ICE prisoners in California, New Jersey on hunger strike amid abusive conditions
Hunger strikes have erupted across three of ICE’s concentration camps operated by the private prison corporation the GEO Group, a publicly traded corporation – two at neighboring facilities in Adelanto, California, and a third at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. As detainees refuse food to protest abusive conditions and indefinite confinement, the coordinated actions…
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Union presidents betray workers, attend Blackrock-hosted A.I. summit
Teamsters’ General President Sean O’Brien and North America’s Building Trades Unions’ President Sean McGarvey recently attended an infrastructure summit hosted by multinational investment company Blackrock. The summit’s guiding theme was “Building America’s Future Together: The Infrastructure Opportunity.” For two unions, with over 4.4 million members combined, it is unconscionable that their Presidents would observe, let…
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Revolutionary Government of Cuba condemns in the strongest terms the despicable accusation by the U.S.
The Revolutionary Government condemns in the strongest terms the despicable accusation by the United States Department of Justice announced on May 20 and proclaimed for several weeks against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution.
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U.S. child labor violations on the rise as lawmakers roll back reforms
Across the United States, child labor violations have risen fivefold in a decade. Over 5,000 minors were illegally employed last year alone. Yet instead of strengthening protections, Republican and Democrat lawmakers, the faithful servants of American capital, are systematically erasing them. They are slashing minimum wages for teenagers, eliminating safety databases, and legalizing hazardous work…
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NLG Disability Justice Committee Statement on Proposed Changes to SSI and Attacks on Collective Care
The National Lawyers Guild Disability Justice Committee condemns proposed changes to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) that threaten to punish disabled people for surviving through family and community support. These policy shifts represent a continuation of the long-standing use of the law as a tool to discipline poverty, undermine collective care, and isolate disabled people from…
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Under guise of “protecting children,” Christian nationalists weaponize gender, exploit division to serve bourgeois interests
Lurking in the deepest bowels of Colorado, a coalition calling itself Protect Kids Colorado has mobilized to push three ballot initiatives onto the Nov. 2026 ballot, each draped in the rhetoric of child protection but rooted in the reactionary impulses of the ruling class. This campaign exemplifies a deeper contradiction within capitalist society: the selective…
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Proletarian Poetry: “Red Stars”
Every red star will blush. With that red flag high, it will mute my cool horizon. It will breach everywhere—even the canals— and finally drift to heaven but it will not be dead.
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Expanding federal executions weakens justice, working people pay the price
In a move that signals a harder edge to federal punishment, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it will now permit firing squads as an official method of execution and revive single-drug lethal injection using pentobarbital. This policy shift under the current administration reverses earlier restrictions, aims to speed up capital cases, and expands…
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NATO: A record of a “peace-keeping” force
NATO propaganda has intensified once again in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as NATO has been able to present itself as the apparent defender of countries under attack. Yet at the same time, the image of a peace-loving organization is crumbling. Not least due to the increasingly aggressive behavior of the U.S. as…
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