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Big Pharma’s Legal Escape Hatch
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Big Pharma’s Legal Escape Hatch
Women say Pfizer has failed to properly warn them about a link between birth control shot Depo-Provera and brain tumors. The pharmaceutical giant is now attempting to use a powerful legal maneuver to try to silence them.
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Why Trump’s Attempt to Bully Brazil Is Falling Flat
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Why Trump’s Attempt to Bully Brazil Is Falling Flat
In solidarity with the recently imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump levied tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil. He is quickly learning that the US’s influence is weaker than he thought, thanks largely to Brazil’s growing ties with China.
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In Spain, Farmworkers Are Dying in the Heat
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In Spain, Farmworkers Are Dying in the Heat
Three migrant farmworkers died from heatstroke in Spain this summer. Largely ignored by media, their fate illustrates how the effects of the climate crisis are offloaded on the least visible workers.
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Where Is Politicians’ Urgency Over Donald Trump’s ICE Raids?
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Where Is Politicians’ Urgency Over Donald Trump’s ICE Raids?
Why aren’t more elected officials turning Donald Trump’s assault on the basic rights of both noncitizens and citizens into a major national scandal?
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Economic Populism Is Powerful, but Democrats’ Brand Is Toxic
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Economic Populism Is Powerful, but Democrats’ Brand Is Toxic
Populist economic policies grounded in the value of work and commonsense notions of fairness may be able to win over constituencies that have abandoned Democrats in recent decades. There’s a problem though: the Democratic brand is trash.
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We Can Use Predistribution to Fight Income Inequality
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We Can Use Predistribution to Fight Income Inequality
Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality. In fact, “predistributive” measures like minimum wages and collective bargaining can be equally or more effective.
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Trump: The US Lost Vietnam and Afghanistan Due to Woke
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Trump: The US Lost Vietnam and Afghanistan Due to Woke
Donald Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by thorough dehumanization and staggering destruction. What type of war would be politically incorrect enough for Trump?
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CUNY Workers Against the New McCarthyism
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CUNY Workers Against the New McCarthyism
The Professional Staff Congress, the faculty and staff union at the City University of New York, is organizing against GOP attacks on higher ed — and fighting what it says are the CUNY administration’s own McCarthyist attacks on pro-Palestine professors.
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Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism
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Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism
Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This fundamental asymmetry, as German sociologist Claus Offe explained, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult.
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The West Has Helped Paul Kagame to Pillage the Congo
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The West Has Helped Paul Kagame to Pillage the Congo
For the last three decades, Rwanda’s leader Paul Kagame has fueled conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ransacked its natural resources. The US and the EU have been Kagame’s partners in crime so they can get a share of the loot.
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Private Equity Delivers Consistently Poor Health Outcomes
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Private Equity Delivers Consistently Poor Health Outcomes
Emergency rooms, dentist offices, and nursing homes managed by the private equity industry consistently deliver worse health outcomes than other such medical institutions. The difference can mean life or death for patients.
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Life Inside China’s Gig Machine
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Life Inside China’s Gig Machine
Hu Anyan’s I Deliver Parcels in Beijing describes life working in China’s logistics and service trades. Anyan’s account reveals differences in context between Chinese and US workers that indicate the difficulty of international working-class solidarity.
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What Populism Can (and Can’t) Do for the Left
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What Populism Can (and Can’t) Do for the Left
We live in an age of populism, on the Right and on the Left. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber explains both populism’s potential and limitations for putting class and economics back into politics.
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Anti-Corruption Politics May Be the Key to Beating Trumpism
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In France, Too, Billionaire Tycoons Are Silencing Their Critics
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In France, Too, Billionaire Tycoons Are Silencing Their Critics
In France, right-wingers love to pose as defenders of free speech. Yet the takeover of media by a cast of billionaire pro-Trump tycoons means that just a handful of individuals have a veto over huge swaths of the press.
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New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind
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New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind
Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing how to defend clean energy from Donald Trump.
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Bailing Out Pfizer Won’t Lower Drug Prices
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Bailing Out Pfizer Won’t Lower Drug Prices
President Trump is promising lower drugs prices, but last month’s “deal” between the government and Pfizer is more about funneling patients to Big Pharma’s direct-to-consumer online platforms.
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Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement”
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Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement”
UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.
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Love Can Still Liberate
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Love Can Still Liberate
New research on love and intimacy shows that love remains one of the few forces capable of remaking us.
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Alex Salmond Made Scottish Independence a Tangible Goal
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Alex Salmond Made Scottish Independence a Tangible Goal
It’s a year since the death of Alex Salmond, the most important Scottish politician of his generation. Although Salmond’s career ended in marginalization, there’s no doubting his achievement in popularizing the cause of Scottish independence.
2025/10/16 14:09:26
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