As contract negotiations with the company stall, unionized Starbucks workers at dozens of stores are preparing for a potential strike. Workers are now holding practice pickets and signing customers up to boycott the coffee giant in the event of a walkout.

In New York City, 20,000 nurses are negotiating contracts with the city’s private sector hospitals. The hospitals are using federal Medicaid cuts as an argument for austerity. But nurses say the richer hospitals, and the state government, can fill the gap.

The Italian philosopher Lucio Colletti was one of the outstanding postwar Marxist thinkers. But Colletti’s subsequent drift to the right symbolized a wider shift in Italy’s whole political axis as its once-powerful left-wing movements went into decline.

Ironic fascism is a disturbing symptom of the Trumpist right’s mounting ethnonationalism and authoritarianism.

The issue of Palestine speaks to a range of constituencies that Zohran Mamdani is trying to stitch together into a new coalition — and creates a cleavage with the establishment leaders of the Democratic Party like Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer.

Over 51,000 teachers are on strike for fair pay and manageable classrooms in Canada’s most right-wing province. With the threat of back-to-work legislation looming, other unions are indicating that they may join the fight.

A British court has acquitted the only soldier to face trial over the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry in 1972. The outcome is no vindication of “Soldier F” or of the British establishment, whose long cover-up made a successful prosecution so challenging.

Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.

Germany’s Social Democrats often sound the alarm about the rising far right. It would help if their own elected officials didn’t constantly spread misinformation about migrants stealing from the welfare system.

The welfare state is essential for keeping the nonworking population out of poverty. But we shouldn’t discount the role of predistributive measures like strong unions and minimum wage laws in reducing inequality.

The deleterious impact of technology on everyday life is generating a growing backlash in Western societies. At its most radical fringe, this includes a political subculture that promotes violent struggle against technological civilization as a whole.

The Supreme Court, urged on by well-funded far-right ideologues like Stephen Miller, is set to curtail important provisions of the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to aggressive, racially based disenfranchisement.

Donald Trump’s yes-men at the Consumer Product Safety Commission are withdrawing a series of proposed safety rules, including an appendage-saving safety mandate for table saws. This will mean thousands more fingers lost per year.

A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents of rising authoritarianism in the US.

The vision of W. E. B. Du Bois was one of congressional democracy, critical of presidential regimes that concentrate power in the hands of one individual — an individual who can, say, impose his vision of a White House ballroom in the sky upon all of us.

Following an industry trend, fast-food chain Shake Shack recently updated its terms of use agreement to include a binding arbitration agreement and class-action waiver denying customers their legal right to take the company to court.

At a rally last night in Queens, New York, with Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran Mamdani addressed a crowd of 13,000: “For too long, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.”

With the US government shutdown effectively paralyzing the National Flood Insurance Program, private firms such as Neptune Insurance Holdings are seizing the opportunity to push for the near-total privatization of flood insurance.