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Guggenheim museum workers, public defenders in New York City vote to authorize strike action
9+ hour, 53+ min ago (330+ words) Entry-level staff at the Guggenheim earn just $49,920 annually, and over half of the museum's workforce makes less than $71,000 — a figure significantly less than the over $100,000 annual salary necessary for a single adult to live “comfortably” in New York City. Annual…...
Against austerity, rearmament and fascism
10+ hour, 20+ min ago (1352+ words) The danger of a nuclear war has never been greater than today. The Merz-Klingbeil government is rearming on a scale not seen since Hitler and is brazenly preparing for a war with Russia, a nuclear-armed power. The cost of this…...
Chilean court moves to overturn acquittal of Carabineros officer who blinded Gustavo Gatica
10+ hour, 16+ min ago (659+ words) The decision represents a significant development in one of the most emblematic cases of state violence to emerge from the 2019 social explosion and a direct challenge to the legal architecture of impunity constructed over the last seven years by successive…...
Trump, Democrats, media mourn right-wing warmonger Lindsey Graham
10+ hour, 42+ min ago (529+ words) Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly Saturday at the age of 71, was a right-wing war hawk who was a vocal advocate of American imperialist aggression from Afghanistan and Iraq to Ukraine and Iran. His death came less than 24 hours…...
California Congressman Ro Khanna detained by Zionist settlers and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
10+ hour, 42+ min ago (954+ words) California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna has reported that he and his delegation were detained in the occupied West Bank by armed Zionist settlers and then by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday. Khanna was visiting the ruins…...
Trump threatens to “decimate and destroy” Iran as US continues onslaught
10+ hour, 42+ min ago (660+ words) The US military bombed Iran throughout the weekend, striking about 140 targets Saturday night—the largest single barrage of the week—and launching at least two more rounds on Sunday. In all, the Sunday New York Times reported, US forces have…...
Lorain County Job and Family Services strike passes 140 days as federal assault on social programs deepens
10+ hour, 59+ min ago (1462+ words) The United Auto Workers continues to isolate the strike by 140 workers at the Lorain County Department of Job and Family Services (JFS) in northeast Ohio. The strike entered its 146th day Monday, making it one of the longest public-sector strikes in…...
1199SEIU seeks to impose sellout contract on 86,000 New York healthcare workers
10+ hour, 58+ min ago (100+ words) The union leadership has produced a tentative agreement that cuts real wages and provides no genuine protection against AI-driven layoffs. The 86,000 workers covered under the expiring contract with the League include certified nursing assistants, emergency medical technicians, housekeepers, social workers,…...
Mobilize the working class to stop ICE murder and bring Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killers to justice!
11+ hour, 9+ min ago (811+ words) Nearly a week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on his way to work in Houston, the perpetrators remain at large. Salgado and his coworkers were pursued in the early morning by unmarked vehicles that gave…...
“We will not work until we have justice for Lorenzo”: Hundreds protest ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas
11+ hour, 41+ min ago (1467+ words) Several hundred people gathered outside Houston City Hall on Saturday evening to protest the July 7 murder of construction worker Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The demonstration began at 6 p.m. and continued through persistent rain and…...