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Left wing news aggregator curating headlines and analysis from (mostly) independent media and voices on the ground.

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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
“While those working at private companies can at least earn a little money, they face possible punishment if they refuse, from being denied family visits to being sent to higher-security prisons…”
apnews.com
Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
“For over 40 years, retired fire fighters and other public servants have had their retirement benefits stolen by the United States Congress.”
iaff.org
Senate passes Social Security Fairness Act, sends WEP/GPO repeal to the White House - IAFF
Fairness is returning to Social Security for millions of retired fire fighters, police officers, teachers, and other public employees.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Teamsters announce strike against Amazon beginning at 6am eastern time on Thursday, December 19th
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The Teamsters have announced that employees at four Amazon warehouses in Southern California have voted to approve strike action. The affected facilities are located in Victorville, Industry, San Bernardino, and Palmdale. This move aims to pressure Amazon into recognizing their union.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
“If France takes up the complaint against Ohnona, it would be only the third known country to open an investigation into soldiers serving in the Israeli military for war crimes.“
dropsitenews.com
Complaint Filed Against French-Israeli Soldier by Human Rights Groups Over Alleged Torture
“Look, they tortured him to make him talk," a French-Israeli soldier is heard saying of a Palestinian detainee in a video posted online in March.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Gerry Connolly has prevailed over AOC to become the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“It’s no coincidence that censorship has been heightened in a region where cash flow backs one side of the conflict: (…) Palm Beach County standing as the largest international holder of Israel bond investments at more than $700 million.”
prismreports.org
A Florida statute is censoring anti-Zionist artists
Miami artist Les Gomez-Gonzalez rescinded their participation in local exhibition that required complying with anti-BDS statute
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Trump will “look at” pardoning NYC Mayor Eric Adams who is facing charges of bribery.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“As cathartic as Thompson’s death may or may not be, it will not change things for the better. UnitedHealthcare will get a new CEO, and that CEO will manage a company that will continue to defraud and exploit its customers at their most vulnerable. Individual acts of violence go nowhere.”
peoplesworld.org
Killed United Healthcare magnate Thompson: Symbol of a greed-driven industry
NEW YORK—The death of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, and arrest of Luigi Mangione as a suspect in his killing is prompting anger against the greed-driven health care industry, which already dev...
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“Our job now, over the next several years, is to scale our own experiments so that our local wins build to state wins, and our state wins build to national wins.”
inthesetimes.com
Don’t Retreat, the Ballot Box Belongs to Working People
Elections aren't the only tool that the working class can use to build power. But as the Right continues to dismantle movement gains, we must use every tool available to us.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“We like to quote, in English, Francisco Franco's phrase: ‘Wherever I am, there will be no communism.’ And he meant it. It's that resolve, it's that will, that we praise and that we appreciate.”
currentaffairs.org
Trumpworld’s Favorite Writer Says The Right Must Emulate Dictators in Battling Leftist 'Unhumans'
Joshua Lisec’s work is highly regarded by J.D. Vance, Donald Trump Jr., and Steve Bannon. He thinks democracy is overrated and that law should be used as a tool of political revenge. He spoke to Curre...
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People's World @peoplesworld1924.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Peace forces condemn Israeli and U.S. interference in Syrians' self-determination #news peoplesworld.org/article/peac...
peoplesworld.org
Peace forces condemn Israeli and U.S. interference in Syrians’ self-determination
Peace forces around the world are on guard, warning against Israeli and U.S. interference in the Syrian people’s right to determine their own future in the wake of the fall of the Bashar al-Assad dict...
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“Suspended in political purgatory, Puerto Rico remains in but not of the U.S. — its residents creatively resisting the violence of an empire that excludes them.”
truthout.org
Resurgent Puerto Rico Independence Movement Challenges 126 Years of Colonialism
Openly promoting decolonization and a social democratic alternative, a historic coalition made record electoral gains.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“We should not be rewarding with taxpayer money a company that uses all means—legal and illegal—to deny employees their federally protected right” to organize and bargain collectively, O’Brien told the Senate Labor Committee two years ago.
peoplesworld.org
Teamsters: Atlanta card check majority a pre-holiday win at Amazon
ALPHARETTA, Ga.—In an indication of progress in a major union organizing drive, the Teamsters are reporting “a major win outside the NLRB election process” by gaining a card-check majority among worke...
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Democracy Now: Daniel Penny, a former U.S. marine who choked homeless street performer Jordan Neely to death on a subway last May, has been acquitted of criminally negligent homicide.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
NYT: New York City Mayor Eric Adams does not rule out switching to the Republican Party.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“Although the crisis was quelled within six hours, the damage inflicted on South Korea’s democratic institutions is profound,”
truthout.org
South Koreans Prove Democracy Can Survive in the Face of Authoritarianism
Offering a model for resisting authoritarianism, South Korean activists say they will “fight for democracy at any cost.”…
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“Hearing about things like part-time employees used to have benefits, and now they don’t really have any. It’s just continually changing for the worse.”
peoplesworld.org
Philly Whole Foods workers petition for union recognition
In a first for Whole Foods under Amazon’s ownership, employees at a Philadelphia store have launched a unionization campaign to address mounting workplace issues, including understaffing, low wages, h...
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Federal Use of the Term “West Bank”
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“Universities and university administrators have become an extension of state power, and we have now seen it firsthand in this case of a violent raid into the students’ home without any material evidence whatsoever,”
theintercept.com
Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation
Police raided the home of a George Mason University Students for Justice in Palestine co-president in an FBI-led investigation into graffiti.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“They put paramilitary security forces at our plant during the strike. They went at it with us. We had a six and a half hour standoff. We were holding up the trucks, making a point. Then later that night, they decided to activate their training. Their guards got hands on, and it didn’t go over well”
labornotes.org
How Can U.S. and Mexican Workers Build Cross-Border Solidarity?
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed in 1993, the economies of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have become increasingly integrated. Workers in all three countries have suffere...
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Forbes unionized journalists stage walkout on “30 under 30” launch day.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VOTE TO END THE MARTIAL LAW WITH ALL 190 IN ATTENDANCE VOTING IN FAVOR.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENT YOON DECLARES MARTIAL LAW
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
BREAKING: UAW Staff United (USU), the union representing many United Auto Workers (UAW) International and local staff organizers in the Northeast United States, is on strike.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
“It doesn’t really address the fact that there was this longer history in which military violence was critical to the subjugation of Native peoples and maintaining the colonial project.”
theintercept.com
Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
After 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“I think that what Dan Osborn did should be looked at as a model for the future. He took on both political parties. He took on the corporate world. He ran as a strong trade unionist. Without party support, getting heavily outspent, he got through to working-class people all over Nebraska.”
thenation.com
Bernie Sanders: We Need More Working-Class Candidates to Challenge Both Parties
The senator says in this exclusive interview that challengers to status quo politics can run in Democratic primaries or as independents.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“And a big part of why neoliberalism needs to be repackaged is because of how deregulation made people’s lives worse and failed to deliver promised gains from its focus on growth.”
prospect.org
The Abundance Agenda: Neoliberalism’s Rebrand
The new centrist push to regain control of the Democratic Party, with corporate money
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Israel was never a democracy – it was an ethnocracy because it defined itself as belonging only to the Jewish people, not only those who live in Israel by the way, but even those who live outside it. But now, it is already a fascist regime, and it is getting worse.”
peoplesworld.org
Expelled lawmaker alleges ‘Israel is on the road to fascism’
LONDON—Israel is not only committing genocide in Gaza, says suspended Israeli MP Ofer Cassif, it is “well on the way to becoming a clear, full-blooded fascist land.” Cassif is a brave man.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Sheinbaum also criticized U.S. spending on weapons, saying the money should instead be spent regionally to address the problem of migration. ‘If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration,’”
apnews.com
Mexico suggests it would impose its own tariffs to retaliate against any Trump tariffs
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t sto...
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Special Counsel Jack Smith moves to dismiss charges against Donald Trump in election interference case.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“If internal polling says that the only popular message that Democrats have is ‘saving democracy,’ it does not follow that they should not talk about cost-of-living pressures.”
thebaffler.com
The Consultant Con | Max Kiefel
Democrats need to dump the consultants and rebuild the party—from the bottom up.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“The Biden White House could—and indeed still can—end Israel’s bombing, siege, and occupation of Gaza whenever it wishes and simply isn’t, because it broadly agrees with it.”
thenation.com
How the US Media Helped the Biden Administration Distance Itself From the Horrors of Gaza
White House–curated stories of performative outrage and feigned helplessness provided cover for an administration arming death on an industrial scale.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“Belittling and discounting Trump’s operation might make liberals feel better, but strategically, it’s self-defeating. This hubris leaves Democrats oblivious to their opponents’ achievements, while they overestimate their own approach.”
theguardian.com
Democrats’ much-touted ‘ground game’ was a disaster. Here’s how to fix it
Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Breaking: Ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“GM is trying to cut around 50 UAW jobs when they're making record profits. We will fight for our laid-off members with the full force of our contract,” UAW Vice President for the General Motors Department, Mike Booth, said in a statement.
autoblog.com
GM lays off 1,000 workers, even as it nears record profits
GM says it’s “optimizing” its operations through layoffs and facility closures.
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Most of the folks interviewed are in my department. But what the piece doesn’t reveal is that this reactionary regime of censorship is working hand-in-hand with an assault on shared governance, fully enabled by each respective campus administration. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
nytimes.com
Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Trump to nominate Oregon Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer for US Labor Secretary. Chavez-DeRemer has earned a 10% lifetime score by the AFL-CIO for her record voting against working people.
aflcio.org
Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer | AFL-CIO
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Murphy is trying to position himself as a leading Democratic voice as the party grapples with a brutal election cycle. Murphy argues that a “populist message of power deconcentration is a truly unifying message — across income brackets and political ideologies.”
punchbowl.news
Murphy’s case for populism
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is circulating a polling memo arguing that Democrats need to embrace populism to win back working-class voters.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“The incoming council must balance calls for police accountability with maintaining public order, particularly as the city faces the prospect of renewed protests under a second Trump presidency.”
peoplesworld.org
Portland police at a crossroads: Progressive council vs. status quo
PORTLAND, Ore.—As Portland prepares to seat its most progressive city council ever, the Portland Police Bureau faces an unprecedented shift in civilian oversight and direction.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Trump expected to offer Kelly Loeffler the job as the Secretary of Agriculture.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“Even in the United States, at the height of the New Deal, the Congress of Industrial Organizations organized the first-ever political action committee with the explicit aim of getting workers into Congress.”
theguardian.com
The US needs more working-class political candidates | Dustin Guastella and Bhaskar Sunkara
Union mechanic Dan Osborn’s independent campaign outperformed Kamala Harris by 14 points in Nebraska
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“The path forward for Canada Post doesn’t have to be made through cuts, but could come from an expansion of services and diversification of revenue, the workers argue.”
labornotes.org
Canada's 55,000 Postal Strikers Are Refusing to Throw New Hires Under the Bus
The company wants to make new hires wait a year before they receive benefits, and to exclude them from the defined-benefit pension plan. Meanwhile the starting wage has risen only 6.7 percent since 20...
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“the wave of politically motivated repression in the workplace has been the most severe in the country since at least the Vietnam War.”
thenation.com
Bosses Are Retaliating Against Workers for Showing Solidarity With Palestinians
Workers are losing their jobs and professional opportunities for expressing pro-Palestinian sentiment. Others are choosing to self-censor amid a climate of fear.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
On November 22, Whole Foods Workers United officially declared its intention to unionize with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 1776 and filed papers with the National Labor Relations Board.
inthesetimes.com
Whole Foods Workers File for First-Ever Union, Defying Amazon
Workers in Philadelphia say they’re tired of being treated like robots.
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Daily Union Elections @unionelections.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Holy fuck, Whole Foods union just dropped. 300 grocery store workers for Whole Foods in Philly are unionizing with UFCW local 1776. As far as I can tell, this is the first organizing effort at a whole foods *store,* ever.
Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit.  The employer is Whole Foods Market located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  There are 300 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of  All full time and regular part time employees including team members, team trainers, order writers, non-management supervisors, and store scanning specialists that are employed by the employer at its 2101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, PA facility. EXCLUDED: All other employees including store team leads, associate team leads, store trainers, team leaders, assistant team leaders, office, clerical, confidential employees, security guards, managers and supervisors as defined by the Act.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Unions are weak because they represent only ten percent of American workers. To gain power, we need to grow. That means that unions need to resist their impulses now to say, “Organizing is about to get harder so we shouldn’t waste our resources on it,”
hamiltonnolan.com
Lean Into the Punch
Labor under Trump.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
President Trump nominates Pam Bondi, former recipient of illegal campaign contributions from Trump, for U.S. Attorney General.
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Worker’s Wire @workerswire.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“As such, Reds is a conscious throwback to the Cold War liberalism of Theodore Draper and Arthur Schlesinger, for whom American Communism was a totalitarian aberration in the United States’ confident, if now broken, stride toward an eventual liberal horizon.”
t.co
https://thebaffler.com/latest/maurice-issermans-red-scare-balthaser
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