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American Steel’s Succession

Luke Goldstein, Jarod Facundo The American Prospect
Mergers temporarily strengthen labor’s bargaining chip. But in the long run, anti-monopoly experts say, corporate power crushes workers and consumers.

A Labor Day Like No Other

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Workers on strike.
With public support for unions at near-record highs and new federal rules that actually enable organizing, unions need to mount massive campaigns.

Workers Rights Are Key to Our Movement

Bob Muehlenkamp Third Act
At Third Act, we fight to save democracy and our planet; at the intersection of these two existential issues are workers and unions.

Bananas for Socialism

Arun Gupta Dissent Magazine
In any socialist future worth living in, an abundance of diverse foods would replace the tyranny of monoculture.

The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting To Unravel

Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser New York Times
The Webb telescope data reveal that some very large galaxies formed really fast. This is no minor discrepancy. The finding is akin to parents and their children appearing in a story when the grandparents are still children themselves.

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 5 – 11

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A red Vice-President? in 1983. Prison farm deaths in 1913. West Bank atrocities film bombs in 1983. Who's not a percussionist? in 1953. Dixiecrats kneecap civil rights bill in 1957. Legal liability earthquake in 1973. Chile under the gun in 1973.

Kentucky Autoworkers at Ford Are Preparing for a Strike

LUIS FELIZ LEON Jacobin
Contract negotiations are ongoing between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Last month, 500 UAW members at the Ford plant in Louisville, Kentucky, held rallies in preparation for a potential

Defending Allende

Ariel Dorfman The New York Review
The question of where Chile’s true identity lies becomes ever more pressing as the fiftieth anniversary of Pinochet’s coup approaches.